The Academy Insider Podcast - Your Guide to The Naval Academy Experience
The mission of Academy Insider is to guide, serve, and support Midshipmen, future Midshipmen, and their families. Through the perspective of a community of former graduates and Naval Academy insiders, this podcast will help you learn about life at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis. Through our shared experiences, Academy Insider guides families through the anxiety and frustration caused by lack of understanding, misinformation, and confusion. This platform is designed to better relationships between midshipmen and their loved ones. This podcast is not affiliated with the United States Naval Academy, the United States Navy or Department of Defense. The thoughts and opinions are exclusively those of your host and his guests.
The Academy Insider Podcast - Your Guide to The Naval Academy Experience
#077 Learn About the Company Mate of the Deck (CMOD) at the Naval Academy
Unravel the mysteries of military life as we explore the concept of "CMOD" at the Naval Academy through the concerned eyes of Lorianne, a mother from Boston. CMOD, or Company Mate of the Deck, is more than just an acronym; it's a crucial watch position that plebes hold, introducing them to the vital practice of standing watch. Hear how this role shapes the lives of plebes, equipping them with essential skills for their Naval careers, and why it might sound daunting to outsiders. Through this explanation, we aim to ease the worry and illuminate the structured and disciplined life at the Academy.
Join us in the exciting kickoff of season two of the Academy Insider Podcast, where we weave together the experiences of Naval Academy graduates and the community connected to it. This episode is part of our Ask G series, offering concise answers to burning questions from listeners. With a mission to build a supportive and informed community, we invite you to engage, ask questions, and gain a clearer understanding of life at the Academy. Thank you for tuning in, and be ready to dive deeper into the stories and insights that define the Naval Academy's journey.
The mission of Academy Insider is to guide, serve, and support Midshipmen, future Midshipmen, and their families.
Grant Vermeer your host is the person who started it all. He is the founder of Academy Insider and the host of The Academy Insider podcast and the USNA Property Network Podcast. He was a recruited athlete which brought him to Annapolis where he was a four year member of the varsity basketball team. He was a cyber operations major and commissioned into the Cryptologic Warfare Community. He was stationed at Fort Meade and supported the Subsurface Direct Support mission.
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Hey Grant, this is Lorianne and I'm from the Boston area. My plebe just told me he has CMOD. Can you explain what this means? As a mom, I'm a little worried.
Speaker 0:This episode is a part of the Ask G series here on the Academy Insider Podcast, where we're answering your Naval Academy questions as efficiently and concisely as possible. If you like this format and you want to ask a question of your own, you can head to our website, wwwacademyinsidercom, navigate to the top of the page and click on the Ask G tab and it'll direct you to where you can submit your question. To receive the latest information from me and the Academy Insider team, please be sure to subscribe to our newsletter at wwwacademyinsidercom. Backslash newsletter. Lorianne, thank you so much for your question and it doesn't surprise me that your plebs said it in a way with a little bit of disdain in their voice. That made you concerned. But don't worry, cmod is not any kind of disease or anything of the sort. Cmod is quite literally an abbreviation for Company Mate of the Deck CMOD Company Mate of the Deck and it is a watch position that the plebes will stand during their plebe year at the Naval Academy. If you want a little bit more insight into what watch is. When I use the term watch head to number episode three, number three of the Ask G series, where I do a little bit more of an explanation on watch. But CMOD is the Plebe Watch company made of the deck and basically they are in charge, they are the point of contact for anything that happens on the company deck space. Now when I use the term deck, that's what I'm referring to as the company space in Bancroft Hall. If you want a little bit of an explanation on the Bancroft Hall layout, I encourage you to go back and listen to an earlier Ask G episode about the Bancroft layout. And so, again, as the company made of the deck, they're in charge of everything that goes on in the area. They'll have to take tours of their company spaces and go walk around and make sure nothing's going on and everything's okay. If anyone ever enters onto their company space that they don't recognize, they're supposed to question them and basically make them provide identification that they actually are authorized to be in Bancroft Hall, et cetera. So it's an early stage and understanding of standing watch, which is a critical component of the military experience, and that CMOD term is the watch that pleads will stand. So I hope that makes a little bit more sense and please let me know if you ever have any follow on questions. Otherwise, thank you so much.
Speaker 0:Welcome to season two of the Academy Insider podcast. Academy Insider is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that serves midshipmen, future midshipmen and their families. At its core. This podcast is designed to bring together a community of Naval Academy graduates and those affiliated with the United States Naval Academy in order to tell stories and provide a little bit of insight into what life at the Naval Academy is really like. I hope you enjoy it. Thank you so much for listening and reach out if you ever have any questions.
