Emotions at the academy

PDub said:
ZoomingFalcon, what you are referring to is the SAMI, or Saturday Morning Inspection. It is a wing-wide extensive room inspection, where everything must be clean, free of dust, all items where they are supposed be, and uniforms looking perfect. There is much more to that, of course. Squadron area room, shower/bathroom, vacuuming floors...My roomates and I stayed up until 0300 this morning cleaning, and woke up at 0600, skipped breakfast, to continue cleaning. Now we wait for stan/eval staff to make there way over here at 0930. SAMIs ruin weekends.
And yes, each squadron gets a score based on how the individual rooms, bathrooms, and the SAR looks.
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pssh....you are over doing it man. Thats a rare exception, reality is you might stay up until like 00:30 or 01:00 but not too much later than that. I woke up at 7 this morning, so i almost had 6 1/2 hours of sleep. Its really not that bad if you keep everything in SAMI everyday anyways like we're supposed to...lol. Which i know some dont...haha
 
I didn't know it was a SAMI. I thought it was like a DOD inspection or something.
 
yeah i was only up until midnight.. and my room wasn't even one they picked to look at.:rolleyes:
 
MChansard said:
yeah i was only up until midnight.. and my room wasn't even one they picked to look at.:rolleyes:
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"They" didn't look at ALL of them??? :confused:

I tell 'ya, the place is just going...it's just going...:jaw:

Now WAAAAAY back....well...uh....

Dang...this memory thing....:confused:

Steve
USAFA ALO
USAFA '83
 
Don't worry, some of us are lucky enough to get graded twice!

...and dinged for having the thumbs of our gloves facing the "wrong" side.:rolleyes:
 
buffalo said:
The best part of the actual SAMI is standing silently at parade rest for an hour and a half as the squardron is being inspected.
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And you weren't whispering or moving around right?? Right??
 
"FAMILY FEUD"

And the #1 comment made under one's breath to the person next to them, while standing at Parade Rest for an hour and a half at a SAMI inspection is:

1) "God, I've got to piss real bad".
 
Is the belt buckle supposed to facing the drawer opening? Oh, the urge to just walk over and fix it!
 
well, as a 4 degree if you don't remember all of them you get yelled at by training staff, who in turn makes life so much more fun for the rest of your squadron/flight. Also, if you do poorly enough, you get tours or confinements. It also goes into your MPA, which if high enough can get you more passes throughout the year. Good motivation if you ask me.
 
memorization gets easier as you get used to memorizing stuff.
 
I thought i would comment after going through most of this:

yeah it's pretty much spot on.



I just can't wake to get back! /extreme sarcasm.
 
Memories...

"Sir! Major General John M. Schofield's graduation address to the graduating class of 1879 at West Point is as follows: The discipline which makes the soldiers of a free country reliable in battle is not to be gained by harsh or tyrannical treatment. On the contrary, such treatment is far more likely to destroy than to make an army. It is possible..."

First learned in June 1979...

Scary thing...I can still recite it! :confused:

Steve
USAFA ALO
USAFA '83
 
flieger83 said:
Scary thing...I can still recite it! :confused:

Steve
USAFA ALO
USAFA '83
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I didn't learn it until the summer of '84 at WP but my son had a friend over last night (another candidate) and they were looking through my old Bugle Notes, and yep - I still remember that one too!!
 
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