<p>When receiving a congressional nomination, does the person have to be from your district?</p>
<p>your representative does. the senators dont. neither does the presidential or vice presidential...</p>
<p>k thanks, how many requests for nominations did you send?</p>
<p>i did rep and 2 senators.. but i recommend the VP. and prez too, if you're qualified.. as many as you can</p>
<p>Except for the time, there's no reason not to pursue all channels for the nomination.</p>
<p>Buckaroo applied for 3 (rep, 2 senators). In Texas the congressmen usually talk to each other so that each candidate usually receives only 1 nomination. It seems that some other states handle things differently as far as the number of nominations that a candidate may receive.</p>
<p>I was told the same thing by my TX rep after I got Sen Cornyn's nomination. Strangely enough, my district rep gave me one too, even though I didn't attend the interview after they told me not to come.</p>
<p>Buckaroo received a nomination from her rep and on the same day received a call from Sen Hutchison to determine if she still needed a nomination and was a bit perturbed that the rep had already sent her a nomination. The senator said that the rep. knew that she wanted to give Buckaroo a nomination but since she already had a nomination the senator would give a nomination to someone else on her list.</p>
<p>You will want to apply for every nomination you have available to you. In the case of non-military your MOC, both Senators, and Vice President. In the case of military dependent/affiliated (VA 100%, MOH) your MOC, both Senators, and President. </p>
<p>Potterfan got the Presidential first, and had to wait for MOC and Senator until just after Christmas. The Presidential got her an immediate offer of admission from USMA. When the Congress and Senator came in the USAFA appointment came (before the March mass mailing).</p>
<p>OK thanks, ds52262- Im the dependent of an army national guard warrant officer, will that enable me to go for the presidential nomination? He is a veteran of Iraq but not disabled. He is currently still active duty.
Thanks for the help!</p>
<p>As the dependent of a National Guard member you may be eligible to apply for a Presidential nomintion. It will depend on length of service. If he is currently serving in an AD capacity the answer would be yes. The Guard or Reserve member would have to serve 8 years of active duty time. see below:</p>
<p>DefenseLink</a> News Article: RC Members Can Request Service Academy Nominations</p>
<p>Ok thanks. yea he's been in for a long time lol. But thanks the link helped =]</p>
<p>How selective is the nomination process?</p>
<p>Depends on where you are from, but in most cases very selective. We live in Las Vegas and the have a pooled selection here. The senators and congressmembers hold a large interveiw. In Potterfans case about 60 to 70 applicants over the course of the day. A selection committee interveiws the applicant, and makes a recommendation. Then the members from each office meet and try to make sure everyone deserving gets a nomination.</p>
<p>If you are from a large rural state Montana, Idaho, Wyoming the pool of competative applicants will not be as big as parts of Texas (San Antonio, Houston, Dallas) or Places like Virginia, Florida or New York. These places have large military communities and that can increase the number of applicants.</p>
<p>OK thanks!</p>
<p>Alright, my dad has been in the MN Air National Guard for 33 years as a full-time jet engine mechanic. He's been deployed many times, counter-drug in Curacao, Photo-recon in Panama, Iraq, Germany, he'll be going to England at the end of November into Jan. to support the main group heading to LSA Anaconda. Will that probably be enough for a presidential nom?</p>
<p>Not an expert on this Starvin, but if he has 8 years cumulitive AD service you should be eligible to apply for a Presidential nomination. This would be determined by the number of annual tours ( 2 weeks per year), 48 days of drills per year, and any additional deployments he has made over the years. Add it all up and see if it totals 8 years or 2920 days. He will probably have AD days from different schools, and conferences too. Good Luck.</p>
<p>StarvinMarvin -- DS is right about this -- the key is "Active Duty" time -- I'm guessing your Dad, being "full time" with the Air Guard, is a Civil Service employee, and part of that cadre that keeps everything going when the rest of the unit is in their normal jobs, and then goes AD when they meet, or when they deploy. His "normal" job is still with the unit, but in a civilian status. In other words, his pay status changes along with his civil service/active duty status. But only he will know the answer. It certainly doesn't change his full time status, but I'll bet he has two time frames -- AD time and Civil Service time. </p>
<p>What to do? ASK him!!</p>
<p>There were some figures on this last fall... Maybe AF16 can correct me but I think just from SW PA there were over 600 kids vying for nominations to AFA, USNA, and USMA. We took two for USAFA and one for USNA (only one applied there), which left fewer for the rest! :)</p>
<p>I wonder if there's a high rate of candidates applying for a USAFA nomination in San Diego, 50th district. Anyways, I will just call the office tomorrow. </p>
<p>~Sid-C/O 2016</p>