<p>midshipman2012 who was your squad leader? I was in Alpha 1-5 the "A-holes" with Mr. Cline</p>
<p>tielir999- my squad leader was Dan (the man) Hildenbrand...he won the award for best squad leader in Alpha Co in the second session of NASS on the last day at that big talk we all had together in that gymnasium complex. I'm still in touch with him and my other fellow squad members. I hope I can get in to USNA so badly!</p>
<p>midshipman2012- I received an LOA in September and just had my first congressional interview a couple of weeks ago. I feel that the interview went really well, it didn't hurt that one of the committee members was my BGO and another of the members I had met at our congress member's Academy Day. I am simply waiting, and waiting... I am also in the medical waiver process, so more waiting!</p>
<p>I attended the October CVW and saw my squad leader from NASS while I was there. I had a great time, the plebe who was dragging me is in second company. The swimming practice I've been doing paid off because I was able to participate in their Saturday morning PT, and kept up pretty well (except for the pushups, hey they've all gone through Plebe Summer!)</p>
<p>Go Navy! BEAT Army!</p>
<p>ha congrats on the LOA...i should be receiving an invitation to a CVW soon and hopefully I'll get an offer of appointment in the near future...</p>
<p>midshipman2012- ahh i remember hildebrand. he was awesome he always called me omaha or nebraska he was great and his room was right next to mine. first day there one of the kids in my room got yelled at by him fun times.</p>
<p>If your BGO is also a member of MOC nominating committee (as 2012hopeful mentioned above), how do they avoid a conflict of interest in who they select? Seems the BGO has the job of being your advocate in the whole process. To also be on the nominating committee would seem to put him in an awkward position in trying to be objective.</p>
<p>I had an interview with a MOC committee where my BGO was in on it. For my interview, they made him stand outside and I was interviewed by three other guys...I don't know if later on he can put in a good word for me when they review all of the applicants' records for the nomination...</p>
<p>and yes, i do remember when hildenbrand yelled at that kid the first day...he would love to mess with people. It was awesome</p>
<p>i was in A-3-4 session 2. did you guys here about that kid in Bravo that got ripped apart on indoc night cause he was pretty vocal about his opinion on women in the military?</p>
<p>We had a kid like that in my company, 3rd session too.</p>
<p>His last name was Jones, and when we turned around, every female cadre was yelling "Mr. Jones! Where are you? Stick a paw out. Mr. Jones!"</p>
<p>Poor guy. But they didnt rag on him for too long. He got the message pretty quick.</p>
<p>I have no sympathy for sexists, so he probably wasn't a "poor guy" anyway...</p>
<p>hershey, i was in NASS session 2 as well. Alpha Co 2-5! nice....yeah that sucks for mr. jones hahahh he brought it on himself though so no sympathies from me...</p>
<p>GoinToUSNA08 - i heard that the guy in session 2 was rated/PT'ed until he cried.</p>
<p>I was in Bravo 3-5 Session 1 and one of the guys in Bravo 3-4 accidently called one of the females who was rating him during indoc night a Sir. Needless to say she was not happy especially when he started laughing about it. He was especially screwed after the same female came back to him again and he called her Sir again. He did a whole lot of push-ups!</p>
<p>One guy in my squad called a female detailer a "Sir". She made him say 5 reasons why she was not a man, and he couldn't think of anything to say, so first he said "Ma'am you have pretty eyes ma'am!" Then she berated him for looking at her eyes instead of in the boat, so she said that reason didn't count. Since he couldn't think of anything else, he said "Ma'am, you have breasts, ma'am!!!!" Then she got about 5 people to yell at him at once. It was pretty funny. He took it ok.</p>
<p>ha ha, that was actually my biggest fear going into indoc. i was afraid that a "sir" would be rating me for a long time and then a "ma'am" would come and i'd accidentally call her sir, or vice versa. luckily i only got rated by "sir's."</p>
<p>I know for certain that two of the three members of my MOC nomination committee are BGOs and possibly the third. If this is the case my congressman may have put all of the BGOs in his district on the nomination board so that every candidate who was interviewed would have an advocate in their BGO. I don't know if this is the case, but, if so, it seems to avoid the problem of giving any of the candidates an unfair bias on the nomination committee.</p>
<p>As for "sir's" vs "ma'am's", my squad leader was a ma'am. No one in my squad had any problems remembering their "ma'am's" versus "sir's", but on one of the last days of NASS, a candidate from a different squad called my squad leader 'sir' about five times in a row. In response, my squad leader had him say 'ma'am sandwiches'. It was pretty funny to hear him saying "ma'am" eight times in a row before and after everything!</p>
<p>Go Navy!</p>
<p>I was in NASS session 1, Delta 4-3, a.k.a. "Power Squad". Led by Mr. Bever.</p>
<p>The big hullabaloo when I was down there happened on the third night, I believe. We were on the fourth floor (Delta), having our company meeting, when all of Charlie company came up from the third floor, burst through our doors screaming as loud as they could, and tried to push us back. Bever told us to lock arms and not let them through (note on physics: a squad of 10 cannot stop a mob of 150). I got all twisted and turned around, and had to punch 2 guys in the face because I was being suffocated in the crowd. Roughly 45 name pins fell off during the scuffle. After that, I heard several USNA youngsters were given heavy punishments for allowing it to happen.</p>
<p>The indoc night went pretty well for me, the only problem being that I couldn't hear ANYONE on my squad, and a squad leader from Charlie was making us say the Mission one word per person.</p>
<p>I applied for summer seminar around 2 o clock in the morning after the application opened and heard March 14. It was amazing and it made applying to USNA so much more exciting. I hear the most important part of the application is PSAT scores so hopefully anyone interested in NASS did well on them. If you do get in, the best thing to do to prepare is push-ups, sit-ups and running - don't let the physical aspect ruin the experience for you!</p>