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This original post here is pretty insane. Just go for a nice jog and do some pushups and situps.

After you graduate the time counts towards retirement, advancement, etc. This is true if you go straight to the aviation training pipeline or go to take a vacation at some graduate school. Flight school varies both from NFO to pilot and from platform to platform. Once winged, typical tours are...

I thought the clock for submarine types started at graduation, just like the SWOs. When did they change it?

Stop loading the newbies up with info. Let them sink or swim on their own. And really, unless you're a complete moron you will figure this stuff out on your own. If you're sitting at home reading Reef Points right now, you're wasting valuable free time you could be spending with the lovely lady...

I thought all the smart kids just went and got new shower curtains before alpha inspections. That would seem the most logical course of action. I recall once that the alpha was scheduled during the late NFL game on a Sunday. As long as the game was on in the rooms I was inspecting, they passed.

If poor Johnny is struggling and doesn't know all of this information already, they should just go back home. They are in college, a service academy at that, and their parentals shouldn't have to baby them through the ac year. It can be a tough road to trod, but it is that way for a reason...

I think I got a 4/5/4 on the ASTB, and for some reason or another they let me into the program. Maybe I slipped through a crack, or actually I think they told us that the ASTB was just a check in the box. Most of service selection seems like magic anyways. It's worse than putting your fantasy...

The PRT is pretty silly. With a 6 minute mile your kid is sitting pretty.

Sounds like he has been brainwashed out of his senses. Hope he doesn't lose his grip over the course of the year. Good luck.

6:04...What's the hurry?

Food quality does go down from low demand periods (Sunday mornings, summer programs) to normal weekday meals. It isn't something awful, but it is noticeably better at other times. The lack of food at the beginning of the 07-08 ac year was pretty funny. It just gave some of us a reason to go back...

"Plebes No More"? What is that?

Thought: Go somewhere else. If you have enough time while at the academy to worry about the mediocre people around you, then chances are good that you aren't challenging yourself enough. Play a varsity sport, join some club that thinks constant PT is fun, try to beat everyone in Madden 2011...

There is nothing wrong with the grown ups sightseeing and wandering around town, but it is best done when the freshman is not on liberty, in my opinion. They will be stuck there for the next 3 years and 8 months and will have plenty of time to do the town right. I would surmise that parents who...

From the left coast, redeyes on Saturday night/Sunday morning work great. They're usually cheaper and allow plenty of flex time upon arrival back at BWI.

Well stated. I didn't know that letting someone relax a little bit after being released from a 6 week lab experiment was equal to letting them walk all over you.

I went to Cantler's my PPW and it was delicious. Personal preference? Let the freshman drive the show. If you want to go eat downtown, and they want to watch Jersey Shore and eat take out in the hotel room, you're eating take out in the hotel room with Snooki. Don't piss them off, they've earned...

Group 3 homies have to take or validate 4 semesters of a foreign language. The hardworking Group 1 and 2 people are free of this burden, but they pay for it down the road. While they're up working on projects their Group 3 roomate is playing PS3 or watching a movie. Quite the trade off.

Unless there has been a change, Midshipman don't get NMCI. They get the usna.edu network, which they pay a monthly fee for. Strange right? Voodoo accounting at it's best.

I guess not being a mother it is hard to understand all of the condolences being thrown upon you. From my perspective, it is good that your kid got ankle surgery, and it is good that they are doing well post procedure. It sounds to this point like they are going to let your kiddo stay at the...