.except when they wise up and order it though my credit card on amazon
Boy if that doesn't sound familiar.
It also didn't take them long to learn to be almost out of food just when we would show up at school for a Mom's or Dad's weekend.
Or be out of laundry detergent right before they showed back up at home....or so my kids told me!
I am curious. So for AROTC cadets they don't have the option to keep their uniforms? For AFROTC, at least for my DS, they had an option keep them, but no 1 time uniform allowance or hand them back and buy new using the allowance.
~ Many rated cadets keep the uniforms because they will wear their blues or ABUs so rarely it just was easier. Our DS handed back, but that was due to the fact we slowly purchased every birthday/Xmas uniforms. He than kept the money as a graduation gift from us.
The only things we purchased for our DS were sneakers and a shoe shining kit. He wore glasses so we also purchased him a pair of prescription Ray Ban sunglasses that were AF approved style.
Vista, you made me crack up. Christmas as a HS senior, socks would have been tossed back under the tree with Gee thanks Mom and Dad. Christmas freshmen year AFROTC, it was Thanks Mom and Dad while he tried them on. What a difference a year makes!
~ He is a pilot now and this years gifts were all AF gear....pilot pub bag... Mag light.. etc.
Vista, if I recall AROTC this year cut back on uniforms, so PT gear is probably included in that. I believe they now only offer it to scholarship recipients.
If that is the case, I def. would not buy any PT gear. Just from the he may now stick out even more aspect. Let's assume only scholarship recipients are given the PT uniform (old style), but you purchase the new one. He now is look at me. Just my opinion, but while you want to shine those first few weeks, the way to do it is not wearing the new PT gear, it is maxxing everything even in mismatched gear.
I would pay more attention to working out over the summer because come Aug/Sept this forum will be littered with many posters stating how many cadets busted the PFA. Please don't take that the wrong way. I am not inferring anything, just saying the big picture is not the gear, it is the test.