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ACADEMY NOMINATION SOURCES IN WEST VIRGINIA

Review this information thoroughly and apply for every nomination for which you are eligible beginning in your junior year.
Application
Source Coverage Area Nomination Application Interview Process Questions
Deadline
Interview required for all completed applications.
Kali Vernon
Interviews conducted before an Academy Review Board
Office of Senator Shelley Moore Capito
Available ONLINE: United Center
Senator Nov 2 - 3, 2018 – Charleston, WV
All 55 counties in WV https://www.capito.senate.gov/academy- Oct 15, 2018 by 5 PM 500 Virginia Street East, Suite 950
Shelley Moore Capito (Southern WV, Charleston area, Northern Panhandle)
nominations Charleston, WV 25301
304.347.5372 Phone
Nov 9 - 10, 2018 – Martinsburg, WV
Kali_Vernon@capito.senate.gov
(Eastern Panhandle area)

Amber McCartney
MAIL and EMAIL applications available. Interview required for all completed applications.
Office of Senator Joe Manchin
Interview conducted before a Board.
Senator 900 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite 629
All 55 counties in WV Available ONLINE: Oct 5, 2018
Joe Manchin Charleston, WV 25302
http://www.manchin.senate.gov/ October 22, 23, 24, 2018/Location(s) TBD
304.342.5855 Phone
Applicants will be contacted directly to schedule.
Amber_McCartney@manchin.senate.gov

1st Congressional District:


Barbour, Brooke, Doddridge, MAIL and EMAIL applications available. Interview required on a case by case basis. Linda Wooldridge
Gilmer, Grant, Hancock, Interview conducted before an Academy Committee. Office of Congressman David B. McKinley, P.E.
Congressman Harrison, Marion, Marshall, 709 Beechurst Avenue, Suite 29
Nov 1, 2018
David B. McKinley, P.E. Mineral, Monongalia, Ohio, Available ONLINE: Morgantown, WV 26505
Pleasants, Preston, Ritchie, https://mckinley.house.gov Dates TBD – Morgantown, WV 304.284.8506 Phone
Taylor, Tucker, Tyler, Wetzel Linda.Wooldridge@mail.house.gov
and Wood county

2nd Congressional District:


Berkeley, Braxton, Calhoun, Tara Reeves-Martin
Interview required for all completed applications
Clay, Hampshire, Hardy, Office of Congressman Alex Mooney
Available ONLINE: Interview before a Service Academy Panel
Congressman Jackson, Jefferson, 300 Foxcroft Avenue, Suite 101
https://mooney.house.gov/services/military- Oct 19, 2018
Alex Mooney Kanawha, Lewis, Morgan, Martinsburg, WV 25401
academy-nominations November 10, 2018 – Martinsburg, WV
Pendleton, Putnam, 304.264.8810 Phone
November 17, 2018 – Charleston, WV
Randolph, Roane, Upshur, Tara.Reeves-Martin@mail.house.gov
and Wirt county

3rd Congressional District:


Boone, Cabell, Fayette, Michael Chirico
Available ONLINE:
Greenbrier, Lincoln, Logan, Office of the 3rd Congressional District
https://evanjenkins.house.gov/services/military- Dates/Location TBD
Office of the 3rd Mason, McDowell, Mercer, 845 5th Avenue, Suite 315
academy-nominations Oct 31, 2018 by 5 PM Completed applications will be forwarded (January 2019)
Congressional District Mingo, Monroe, Nicholas, Huntington, WV 25701
to the next elected official representing the district.
Pocahontas, Raleigh, 304.522.2201 Phone
Summers, Wayne, Webster Michael.Chirico@mail.house.gov
and Wyoming county
OTHER ACADEMY NOMINATION SOURCES
Review this information thoroughly and apply for every nomination for which you are eligible beginning in your junior year.

SOURCE CRITERIA FOR NOMINATION


Children of career military personnel. This includes enlisted, warrant, and commissioned members of regular and reserve components who are on active
duty (other than for training) and who have served continuously on active duty for at least eight years; and military retirees either living or deceased who
have received retired or retainer pay. Reservists must be serving as members of reserve components and be credited with at least eight years of service
Presidential*
computed under section 12733 of Title 10 (at least 2880 points); or would be, or who died while they would have been entitled to retired pay under chapter
1223 of Title 10 except for not having attained 60 years of age. For adopted children, the adoption proceedings must have begun before their 15th
birthday.
The Vice President of the United States may nominate candidates from the nation at large and is allowed to have a maximum of five cadets attending the
Vice Presidential* Academy at one time. For each cadet vacancy that occurs, the Vice President may nominate up to 10 candidates to be considered for appointment.
Vacancies occur when cadets graduate or leave prior to graduation. All pre-candidates are eligible for this nominating category.
Applies to children of deceased or 100% disabled armed forces veterans whose death or disability was determined to be service connected; or children of
Children of Deceased
military personnel or federally employed civilian personnel who are in a missing or captured status. If you are eligible in this category, you will NOT be
or Disabled Veterans*
considered in the Presidential category.
Children of Military or Applies to child of a parent who is in missing status is eligible if the parent is a member of the armed services or a civilian employee in active government
Civilian Personnel in service who is officially carried or determined to be absent in a status of missing; missing in action; interred in a foreign country; captured, beleaguered or
Missing Status* besieged by a hostile force; or detained in a foreign country against his or her will.
Children of Medal of Vacancies have been reserved without appointment limit for the children of Medal of Honor recipients who served in any branch of the armed forces. If
Honor Recipients* pre-candidates meet the eligibility requirements and qualify on entrance requirements, they will be appointed to the Academy.
Regular Military and Appointments are available annually to regular and reserve Navy and Marine Corps enlisted personnel, Regular Army and Reserve Components (Army,
Reserve Components* Army Reserve, and Army National Guard), and Air Force Regular and Reserve Components.
Honor military schools are designated by the Department of the Army, Marine Corps and Navy to nominate Academy candidates annually from among
Honor Military
their honor students. Each honor unit may nominate five students to compete for the vacancies. Students should apply to their Senior ROTC Instructor
Schools*
for the nomination.
ROTC and JROTC
Applicants currently enrolled in an Army Junior or Senior Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program or an ROTC program from another branch of
Honor Unit
service that has been designated as an Honor Unit with Distinction are eligible for a nomination in this category.
w/Distinction*
For residents of the U.S. Territories. Puerto Rico - Nominations must be submitted by nomination from the Governor of Puerto Rico and from the Resident
U.S. Territory* Commissioner. Delegates in the House of Representatives are allowed cadets at the Academy from the remaining U.S. Territories at any one time:
American Samoa; Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; District of Columbia; Guam; U.S. Virgin Islands.
Applies to citizens of a country other than the United States. Foreign residents must be nominated by their country. Nominations from the applicable
International*
government are processed through the United States Defense Attaché Office/American Embassy serving your country.

*Does not apply to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy or the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy
Sources: www.academyadmissions.com, https://www.usna.edu/Admissions/Steps-for-Admission/Nomination-Sources/, http://www.usma.edu/admissions/sitepages/apply_nominations.aspx

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