so....pretty much everything else, including civ clothes stay at home then?
I don't think you'll be wearing civilian clothes until after recognition.
so....pretty much everything else, including civ clothes stay at home then?
alright, and also...this is going to sound really petty and stupid, but during the academic year, do cadets have facebook access? ><
As long as you have internet access you should have facebook. It's allowed on DoD workstations, so theres no reason they wouldn't allow it at the USAFA.
Off topic: Blackbird, you're from Kentucky? I'm stationed at Andrews AFB. But i'm originally from Kentucky.
Contacts cannot be worn during BCT. They can be worn after BCT with the exception of certain training activities, when they'll explicitly tell you to take out contacts.
To add to this I doubt you will want to wear contacts. I have them and on rare occasion they do get folded inside my eye, or get dirt on it etc. I wear glasses most places if I will not be able to (or want to) stop what I am doing and run to a mirror to see what happened (or where ever I can go to fix it). Glasses are a way safer bet in my opinion.
Right, i didn't mean hazing, but like...what is there that a plebe can and cannot do until Recognition?
How often you have to do these later ones, and the whole atmosphere of training depends on the squadron.
How hard life is as a 4-dig (four degree, fourth class cadet, freshman, doolie...we don't call them Plebes here) depends largely on the squadron they are placed in, which is random. However, there are a few things that are required Wing Wide, to include running on the strips (marble pathways on the outside of the Terrazzo), carrying your backpack in your left hand, no media except for the internet (so no music, movies, tv, video/pc games), no civvies, being at attention in the cadet area, except for the academic area, chapel, and dorm rooms, doors open most of the day, no sleeping during the day, taking weekly knowledge tests, and wearing service dress whenever you're signed out (within a 150 mi. radius). These are the main requirements that I remember, and are enforced across the Wing. Freshmen also have to call minutes before mandatory formations morning, keep the squadron clean (so take out the trash, and clean some squadron areas, depending on the squad), and usually have training sessions weekly. How often you have to do these later ones, and the whole atmosphere of training depends on the squadron.
Alright... what about leave, then? Is it possible to go back home for a single weekend some time? I remember someone mentioning that you had to file a bunch of paperwork to leave the 150 mile radius, but what about plebes/doolies?