When is the official end of BCT? When do they return from Jack's Valley? Do they get their phones back at this time or Acceptance Day or after?
When my boys went, some didn't get their phones till Thanksgiving, and it was indeed up to the individual squadrons. Actually, I had the only kids in America who did not own cell phones at that time, so there was no huge change.
Remember reading about cadets in the 1950s/60s who spent Saturdays writing required letters, WAXING THE FLOORS (can you imagine?!), and getting ten minutes to call home once ever couple weeks. A lot different than now.
Pretty certain there were no parents calling the academy about mail/phone issues then.
When my boys went, some didn't get their phones till Thanksgiving, and it was indeed up to the individual squadrons. Actually, I had the only kids in America who did not own cell phones at that time, so there was no huge change.
Remember reading about cadets in the 1950s/60s who spent Saturdays writing required letters, WAXING THE FLOORS (can you imagine?!), and getting ten minutes to call home once ever couple weeks. A lot different than now.
Pretty certain there were no parents calling the academy about mail/phone issues then.
When my boys went, some didn't get their phones till Thanksgiving, and it was indeed up to the individual squadrons. Actually, I had the only kids in America who did not own cell phones at that time, so there was no huge change.
Remember reading about cadets in the 1950s/60s who spent Saturdays writing required letters, WAXING THE FLOORS (can you imagine?!), and getting ten minutes to call home once ever couple weeks. A lot different than now.
Pretty certain there were no parents calling the academy about mail/phone issues then.