USNA Class of 2027 Waiting and Speculating

Heatherg21 said:
Highly suggest becoming active in your parent club. They are all different and have varying levels of participation. Our board just elected new members this weekend. I had great support and made friends. I was also able to pay it forward when I became our club's plebe parent mentor and VP of the club.
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Bringing this back up to all the new parents, I really appreciate our parents club. You meet a lot of people who are in your area doing the same or has done the same as you are now. They are under the Alumni Association and there hopefully is an active club near you. My area is club is So. California: http://apcsc.usnaparents.net/
 
george44 said:
Bringing this back up to all the new parents, I really appreciate our parents club. You meet a lot of people who are in your area doing the same or has done the same as you are now. They are under the Alumni Association and there hopefully is an active club near you. My area is club is So. California: http://apcsc.usnaparents.net/
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And they are REAL people. That like drinks 🍹, food 🥘, humor 😂 and bacon 🥓. And favor Navy in the army navy game.

Seriously, it’s great to connect with IRL people, that understand this madness🤪. I mean roller coaster 🎢. I mean honor 🫡.
 
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Also, USNA doesn't provide parent info or candidate info to Parent Clubs. We rely on social media and word of mouth to try to locate each year's appointees.

Make sure if you were appointed, that your parent or you locate your local parent club.

Ours is gearing up for our annual Welcome Aboard luncheon which is a really nice and informative event. We celebrate your accomplishments and provide some current MIDN for you to mingle and ask questions you might have. We have BGOs, a rep (he's awesome) from USAA, and current board members.

If you are in AZ, reach out and encourage your parent to join: https://usna-azpc.com

The benefits are great and so are the friendships your parents will build. Great support for the road ahead.
 
Lkt said:
Speaking of TWEs, has anyone actually received the physical TWE? My son wants to frame it as he busts butt this summer and then CP’s NROTC at ODU next year and continues his undeterred road to the USNA (or if it just never happens, commissioning as an officer in the Navy). He’s already reapplied and started studying to improve SATs and CFA. Thanks all! Miss everyone here and good luck to everyone still WL!!:)
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No actual TWE here either but I like that idea! @Lkt I meant to tell you if your son wants an unofficial sponsor or just to make an old man really really happy, my parents live 10 mins from ODU on the water, great view for a chat. My dad’s a retired Captain, nuke of the Rickover generation and still heavily involved in all things sub related in the area. Literally nothing makes him happier than cornering bright young people interested in submarines and some Cold War sea stories. Unfortunately for him both of his grandsons want to fly, one does so far, one granddaughter went for another type of engineering and another to med school. Plus we’ve all heard all the stories many times, hehe. Really pulling for your son!
 
Lkt said:
Oh sadness!;) thank you!! Maybe the DS will succeed in his reapplication for 28’ and I can join!! Sounds awesome and thanks for posting!!!
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As you probably have read on this forum, the Academy loves second time applicants! With his resume and doing well at Va Tech and ROTC (ROTC commander recommendation, too) he will become a member of the class of 2028 - dollars to donuts. ;)
 
Gnarlygoat27 said:
Unfortunately for him both of his grandsons want to fly, one does so far
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LOL
My father - Naval Aviation for 43 yrs
me - SWO for 31 yrs
My son - Originally wanted to fly and majored in Aero but went Subs and is 12 yrs into them.
I guess we all wanted to go where the family had not been before.
 
OldRetSWO said:
LOL
My father - Naval Aviation for 43 yrs
me - SWO for 31 yrs
My son - Originally wanted to fly and majored in Aero but went Subs and is 12 yrs into them.
I guess we all wanted to go where the family had not been before.
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Precisely! After one too many family dinner conversations with my dad (30 yr subs) and brother in law (30 yr swo) discussing what their grandson/son respectively would choose, he shocked them both and went marine air and is happily flying Vipers on his second deployment. He all but directly said to me he wanted his own path but I think he also just really had fun with the marines during Protramid or whatever they called it at that point. My husband learned from this and doesn’t weigh in on our son 😋 ... but taking him on a cvn tiger cruise from Pearl to SD at age 13 seems to have cemented his laser focus on jets and he came home reciting stats about thrust and a whole bunch of stuff over my head. So maybe DH is just subtle with his influence lol
 
Grandfather was career Navy (enlisted that was later given a field commission for his work on radar chaffe in WWII and retired a LCDR). Dad was as well and is a retired CAPT and s.w.o. I swore my whole life I wanted to be a Naval officer because of them.

After not getting into an Academy out of high school I enlisted in ........ the Army ....... as an aircraft crewman because I wanted to fly, and figured working in the field would give me a better chance at the Warrant Officer flight program. Once in and serving at my first permanent duty station, I really started looking at special ops as a Green Beret. You had to be an E-4 to apply (and I had just gotten promoted before returning to Germany from Desert Storm), and I was just starting to do that when I got my NAPS letter.

The path is constantly changing. Enjoy the ride!!
 
I am beyond excited! I just checked my portal this morning and I received NAPS Conditional Offer (LOA). I checked my DoDMERB portal and although I don't have this medical condition (I made an error on my DoDMERB forms), they need me to go to a doctor (private or CIV team) to confirm. I know I will be cleared as soon as I take care of this 1 step and be on my way to pushing the Accept button. Any recommendations or advice are greatly appreciated. Which is quicker, private or CIV team?
 
AETOS DIOS said:
I am beyond excited! I just checked my portal this morning and I received NAPS Conditional Offer (LOA). I checked my DoDMERB portal and although I don't have this medical condition (I made an error on my DoDMERB forms), they need me to go to a doctor (private or CIV team) to confirm. I know I will be cleared as soon as I take care of this 1 step and be on my way to pushing the Accept button. Any recommendations or advice are greatly appreciated. Which is quicker, private or CIV team?
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I think it depends on what kind of doctor it is. Our DS needed two different doctors…one we did through CIV and got an apt 2 days later. The other one said it would take up to 30 business days to find a provider, so luckily we had a family friend whose son happens to be the kind of doctor our DS needed to see and and was willing to see him on his day off within a couple of days. Our DS’s waiver was granted about a week later.
 
AETOS DIOS said:
I am beyond excited! I just checked my portal this morning and I received NAPS Conditional Offer (LOA). I checked my DoDMERB portal and although I don't have this medical condition (I made an error on my DoDMERB forms), they need me to go to a doctor (private or CIV team) to confirm. I know I will be cleared as soon as I take care of this 1 step and be on my way to pushing the Accept button. Any recommendations or advice are greatly appreciated. Which is quicker, private or CIV team?
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CIV provided my DD with a provider name the same day the AMI hit the portal and she was seen within two weeks.
 
AETOS DIOS said:
I am beyond excited! I just checked my portal this morning and I received NAPS Conditional Offer (LOA). I checked my DoDMERB portal and although I don't have this medical condition (I made an error on my DoDMERB forms), they need me to go to a doctor (private or CIV team) to confirm. I know I will be cleared as soon as I take care of this 1 step and be on my way to pushing the Accept button. Any recommendations or advice are greatly appreciated. Which is quicker, private or CIV team?
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Did you get put on the NAPS Waitlist prior to receiving the NAPS Conditional Offer?
 
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