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11-02-2008, 10:06 AM
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#1 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: So Cal-USC (2005) and West Point Parent (2009)
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Tonight is Branch Night for the Firsties when they officially find out if they are going to be assigned their 1st choice Branch selection....Good luck to the Firsties of 2009 and hopefully we all get a phone call tonight!!
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11-02-2008, 12:04 PM
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#2 | | Senior Member
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Shogun - I hope your daughter gets her first choice - let us know when you get a phone call...
I second your good luck wishes to all of the Firsties!
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11-02-2008, 08:33 PM
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#3 | | Senior Member
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Got a call this evening--she did get her first choice---
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11-02-2008, 09:33 PM
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#4 | | Junior Member
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what is branch night?
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11-02-2008, 10:51 PM
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#5 | | Senior Member
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Great news Shogun 
kpsong - branch night is the night when all of the Firsties find out what branch of service they will assigned to within the army when they graduate.
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11-03-2008, 08:25 AM
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#6 | | Senior Member
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Congratulations to your daughter, Shogun! Branch night already! Wow!
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11-03-2008, 09:39 AM
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#7 | | Member
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Shogun,
Congratulations on your daughter getting her first choice in branch assignments.
I haven't heard from our firstie son about his assignment but am hopeful he has gotten his first choice.
For those unfamiliar with Branch Night, this is the event at which the Firstie cadets are informed which branch (infantry, aviation, military intelligence, field artillary, and so on) they will be assigned to after graduation. Cadets submit their preferences in advance and the assignments are allocated to cadets based on their class rank and branch preferences. Each year, the Army Personnel(G-1) sets the number of available positions in each branch.
About six months later, the firsties get their post assigments (location within their branch) in a similar manner, again based on cadet preference and cadet ranking.
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11-03-2008, 08:18 PM
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#8 | | Senior Member
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shogun,
Congrats to your daughter on getting her 1st choice last night. My daughter did also.
aspen,
Sure hope you know something soon.
Question: Isn't post night sometime in January. I can't remember why I think so.
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11-04-2008, 08:58 AM
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#9 | | Senior Member
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I believe Post Night is Feb 26, the night before 100th Night Show..
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11-04-2008, 04:25 PM
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#10 | | Member
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Heard from our son that he got his first choice branch of Military Intelligence. Now he's looking at the various posts offered for MI.
Shogun, you are probably right (as usual) about the date for Post Night. The timing would be about right.
Anyone else notice that the USMA online academic and master calendars are no longer available? Any info on why?
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11-04-2008, 04:37 PM
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#11 | | Member
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RE: the calendar....on parent-net the moderator told us USMA took the calendars down but she said they did not give a reason. I am hoping it is only a temporary thing and they will put it back up eventually.
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11-04-2008, 05:19 PM
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#12 | | Member
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I got my first choice--Aviation. Pretty excited! Both me and my roommate will be going down to Rucker together. Should be fun!
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11-04-2008, 09:54 PM
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#13 | | Senior Member
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Congrats Marines4Me!!!!
Aspen, glad to hear abt your son--looks like our kids (if we can still call them that) will be training together!
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11-05-2008, 01:23 PM
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#14 | | Member
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Branch night is when each Senior (Firstie) Cadet is given their 'Branch' from a submitted priority list. ( Infantry, Armor, Aviation, SIgnal Corps, etc) . AS I understand it preferences are assigned based on class rank. Post night, is when (in the same process) their first post (location is assigned. Somewhere is an ROTC site that gives a good description of the branches.
ALSO, shogun, marines4me and others were my 'guienna (sp) pigs' for my son .. he graduated the same HS year, but ultimately got civil prep at nmmi in june. I watched in sadness as those got accepted and got LOAs... but for those out there watching and waitin; be open to the options of getting in , it is all good. My S is a very sucessful Cow (Junior). SO all the angst from 4 years ago, is replaced by pride in these cadets ... in the end it is the results that matter
ALL THE BEST
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11-05-2008, 01:32 PM
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#15 | | Senior Member
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Here is a website that gives a great description of all the branches- Home | |
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