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Service Academy Nominations

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
1. A citizen of the United States.
2. A resident of the State of New Jersey
3. Never have been married
4. The US Military Academy, Naval Academy and Air Force Academy require that applicants must have not reached their 23rd birthday by July 1 of the year of admission. Candidates to the Merchant Marine Academy must be at least 17 and have not passed their 25th birthday on July 1 of the year of admission.

Each Senator may have five individuals (5 slots) at an Academy at any one time. All applicants should be advised that acceptance of any appointment commits them to a nine-year obligation to the Service (four years at the Academy and five years of active duty). The Senator nominates ten individuals per open slot at the individual academy from the hundreds of applications filed. Each Academy then appoints the nominees who fulfill their admission requirements.

At the same time an individual seeks a nomination they are strongly advised to request an application from the Academy. Once direct contact is established, the Academy will create a file for the candidate and transmit Academy information and detailed admission requirements, including a Prospective Candidate Questionnaire. The questionnaire provides the preliminary information for the Academy to begin their selection process.

All candidates must submit a letter to Senator Lautenberg's office requesting a nomination to a service Academy (sample letters are found on the academy websites). Once the request is received, a nomination application must be filled out. Please click here to download and fill out our application.

All materials outlined in the nomination application must be mailed by Monday, October 15, 2008. The candidates who meet the basic eligibility requirements will be invited for a personal interview by Senator Lautenberg’s Academy Nomination Board in late November. The Nomination Board selects individuals to recommend based on a numerical scoring system. Recommendations are submitted to Senator Lautenberg for approval and decisions should be made by January 1, 2009. The approved nominees are sent to the individual Academies by January 31, 2009.

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Air Force Academy Admissions Office HQ USAFA/RRS 2304 Cadet Drive Suite 200 USAF Academy, CO 80840-5025 1-800-443-9266 www.academyadmissions.com	U.S. Naval Academy Candidate Guidance Office 117 Decatur Road Annapolis, MD 21402-5018
U.S. Military Academy (West Point) Director of Admissions 600 Thayer Road West Point, NY 10996-9902 Admissions Office U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Kings Point, NY 11024-9997	Merchant Marines Admissions Office U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Kings Point, NY 11024-9997

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Today in the Senate

December 11, 2008:

The Senate will convene at 10:00 a.m. and proceed to a period of morning business for up to one hour, with Senators permitted to speak for up to 10 minutes each.

Following morning business, the Senate will resume consideration of the motion to proceed to H.R. 7005.