Good luck ! And please share what you can about recognition.How will life change for the current Doolies?
Good luck ! And please share what you can about recognition.
Not really supposed to talk about recognition. We get destroyed physically. Thats all you really need to know. Once recognized though we get to have our civilian clothes, we dont have to eat or walk at attention, and we are allowed music/xbox/movies/etc...
Civilian clothes as a 4/c? Carry on this early in the year?
Wow....no wonder they say the Air Force Academy is the easiest
Civilian clothes as a 4/c? Carry on this early in the year?
Wow....no wonder they say the Air Force Academy is the easiest
Physical abuse and knowledge tests. Perfect!Not really supposed to talk about recognition. We get destroyed physically. Thats all you really need to know. Once recognized though we get to have our civilian clothes, we dont have to eat or walk at attention, and we are allowed music/xbox/movies/etc...
come spend a year in my shoes and tell me that its easy.
Physical abuse and knowledge tests. Perfect!
Good luck to you guys!
come spend a year in my shoes and tell me that its easy.
I did not know it was so easy. I always heard it is the hardest to get in of the academies. My son does not think it is so easy, and he is a pretty tough kid.
They seem to churn out officers that staff the greatest air power on the planet, so they must be doing something right.
As for the privileges we earn in 4 days? Well, all the SA's are different, and the AFA condenses all the BS into 9 months, while the others spread it out over a couple years. I agree with Rage, come over here for a month before recognition and tell us all that it is easy...
Later,
Brian
i don't know about Coast Guard, but i hear both Army and Navy exchange cadets admit that USAFA 4 deg year is harder than their plebe year.
besides, the Coast Guard isn't even part of the military. it's just the peace corps for puddle-jumpers
The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is a branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven U.S. uniformed services. The Coast Guard is a maritime, military, multi-mission service unique among the military branches for having a maritime law enforcement mission (with jurisdiction in both domestic and international waters) and a federal regulatory agency mission as part of its mission set. It operates under the Department of Homeland Security during peacetime, and can be transferred to the Department of the Navy by the President at any time or Congress during time of war.
The Coast Guard's legal authority differs from the other four armed services and it operates simultaneously under Title 10 of the United States Code and its other organic authorities, e.g., Titles 6, 14, 19, 33, 46, etc. Because of its legal authority, the Coast Guard can conduct military operations under the Department of Defense or directly for the President in accordance with Title 14 USC 1–3.
come spend a year in my shoes and tell me that its easy.
By the way, you haven't spent a year in those shoes. More like 8 months.
Good observation.
The consensus I (and others) have gathered from the exchange cadets/mids is that we have the toughest freshman year, then the best upperclass years.
All subject to debate though.
Good luck 2014.