In this episode, your host Grant Vermeer speaks with Julie Haller the moderator of the BLB 2023 USNA parents facebook page.  

Julie and her husband are both USAFA ‘88 grads. She left active duty after 5 years, but was a participating reservist for several years, leaving the reserves as an 0-4 (Major).  

Though Julie and her husband are USAFA grads, she jokes that all four of her children have gone to the "dark side" becoming USNA midshipmen. 

She has four children, Jeff (USNA ‘14), Lauren (USNA ‘16), Cassie (USNA ‘19), and Jack (USNA ‘23).

Julie is now obviously a proud and active Navy mom and has had a son or daughter at the Naval Academy for the past ten years.

Julie shares so much words of wisdom with us on NAPS, plebe summer, parenting mids and so much more.

Julie is amazing and gives so much service to parents through her facebook page and the advice and counsel she provides.  She reflects that she received so much help from Elaine Brye when she was a new USNA mom.  Julie recommends Elaine's book Be Safe, Love Mom.

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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. 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.

He separated from the Navy in 2023 and now owns The Vermeer Group, a residential real estate company that specializes in serving the United States Naval Academy community with nationwide consulting and connection.

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