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    Leave at Flight School

    DH & I got married halfway thru his UPT, on a 3 day holiday weekend -- 40 years ago. I was a year behind in AFROTC so getting married was a priority after I graduated so we could try to line up my assignment to his plane drop. Back then there were a bunch of us on admin hold for assignments...
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    Just For Fun…how did you meet your better half??

    Saw DH in ROTC my freshman year, his sophomore year, but basically just knew who each other was. The following year we actually talked to one another, but didn't date until the year after that -- his senior year, my junior year. Got engaged while he was waiting to go to UPT during my senior...
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    Class of 26 parent

    remember, their letters are written at a point in time - and right then things could suck, and writing down their complaints/gloominess can lift their spirits and then they move onto something else and they forget about what they wrote to you. They are not alone in their feelings of gloom but...
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    Sick for I-Day

    did you test yourself for Covid?
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    YOUR DOGS, CATS & Other Domestic Fauna - Cute, sad, buff or silly

    Recently returned from England from dog sitting the grand-dog. Getting a dog seemed like a great idea to our DS, until he got tasked with multiply TDY's recently and asked for help so he didn't have to board him so much. Was nice to go to England and have a place to stay, but would have loved...
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    USAFA Academics

    USAFA offers more than a degree, much of it the experiences offered. What does your son want for his college experience -- regular college with AFROTC, or the immersed military environment with amazing opportunities USAFA offers? USAFA cadets ranked highly can go onto grad school right after...
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    Recognition c/o 2025

    Bill Andrews -- a great guy, gone too soon. DH flew with him at Luke - though he was known to us as "BA"
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    Recognition c/o 2025

    normally their exemplar is announced during recognition, but correct, the dinner is Fall C3C year
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    Recognition c/o 2025

    Who is their exemplar?
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    Recognition c/o 2025

    I remember it like yesterday (and it was 12 years ago) -- phone call from DS that Saturday evening -- "Hi Mom! I'm casually strolling across the Tzo in CIVILIAN clothes going to get something to eat with my friends. It feels so good!"
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    Special Warfare as an Academy Grad

    from previous post on CRO and there are others on the forum -- you can search for them https://www.serviceacademyforums.com/index.php?threads/combat-rescue-officer.56073/#post-558060 Some of the training requirements have changed in recent years - every evolving standards for PT test, and they...
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    1-3

    when DS was at USAFA his was 1-3 and it was a good thing. It was good to get out of his Doolie squad and into a new one and be stable for 3 years. He remained GOOD friends with a lot of his Doolie squadmates but wasn't tied to them and really absorbed into his new squad; being there C3C year...
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    Sponsor Families

    DS's sponsors were big Colorado Rockies fans. I called the Rockies to see if they sold 3 game packs of tickets like the Nationals did at the time. The Rockies did not, but they told me I could purchase "Rockies money" which our sponsors could use to purchase any game ticket and also use for...
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    Vehicles: anyone else trying to purchase one 🚗 🛻??

    Our 1999 Suburban with 230k died the end of October. We knew it was dying so we'd been talking to the Chevy dealer about a new Traverse, so we were ready to order one as soon as the 2022's specs came out. Seems like dealers only want to order Black or White cars and we didn't want that so we...
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    MID Security clearance

    I have word doc with all the addresses we have lived at since college with dates; added to it all the address of where my kids lived during college and afterwards. DS who is AF Doc now getting TSC and called with the "mom, do you have the addresses of where I've lived for the past 10 years"
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    Service Transfer

    Falcon, please don't take this as criticism, but why are you a mediocre cadet? Is it because you don't want to be at USAFA and thus your performance is mediocre? Is it the academics? Academics at any SA are tough. What do you want to do in the Navy that you can't do in the AF? Obviously...
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    POW-MIA Day - 17 September

    I have a friend whose brother was shot down 50 years ago Sep 30, and is still not accounted for. Sep 30 is also her birthday; was not a sweet 16 for her at all in 1971, and has never been a celebratory day for her since. - You are not forgotten
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    Exhausted Doolie Parent

    Another thing to remember is the TO's are fellow cadets who are also learning to lead - the squadron is a leadership laboratory for all of them - and perhaps they are using a poor leadership style. On one of DS's worst days early in Beast, he wrote, I'm learning how BAD some leaders are and...
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    Exhausted Doolie Parent

    There is no one solution to the adjustment - each person finds their way, eventually. For DS it was finding "his people", 2 of which were his roommates (they had gotten to choose their roommates after basic), but it was also his SPIRE group leader (SPIRE was program through the chapel - and...
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    Exhausted Doolie Parent

    I've posted this before -- I didn't write it; it was sent to me back in '09 when my DS was struggling -- applies to all SA's Also, if you attended Parent's Weekend, it's very common almost all Doolies are miserable after seeing parents and having some freedom for the weekend. From Someone's...
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