What to expect at the AFA.

I can attest to the fact that a service academy looks much better once your left than it did while you were there. It is very hard to appreciate the experiences you've been given until they're done "giving them to you."

It even takes while for grads to appreciate where they came from, to begin contributing to their alumni associations.

While I didn't have the best of times at my school, I did have some very good times, I made the best friends, and I had experiences that I can never forget and can thank my school enough for. An academy strengthens the core you enter with. You may want to leave every day while you're there, but once you've crossed the stage, and give it some time, you will really appreciate it.
 
Alright LITS, always taking merde out of context. Let me explain myself for those who don't like reading AND understanding, they just like reading AND getting their own conclusions out of the text.

3 sisters: when you are comparing numbers, you cannot say that e.g.: 80% of the Air Force Academy cadet uniforms are gray and 90% of the Coast Guard Academy cadet uniforms are gray, and therefore you will find more gray uniforms in the Coast Guard. Do you know why, or should I actually explain this? You cannot compare the two, be cause the numbers are not similar nor comparable. Ta-da! numbers, math, simple arithmetic. When I refer to the 3 sisters, or pretty much anyone, they/I mean "in similar numbers." I'm IN NO WAY saying that because there are LESS cadets in the Coast Guard Academy they are INFERIOR.

capishe, or nay?

...just my 2 cents
 
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flyersboy114 said:
Lulz, if you have nothing nice to say, dont say it all. Didnt your mom teach you that? Need to learn when to bite your tounge.

Two Questions:

1. Could you live on a large ship for 200 days traveling the world, and go through nasty storms on the ocean?

2. Could you jump out of a helicopter 30 feet above the ocean into 20 degree water to board a ship on fire to save a handful of people?

One example of USMMA and of USGCA. The men and women who graduate these academies are propbably saddneed by your post. Do not take away something that they have striven for.


P.S. I heard USCGA was the most selective of all the academies
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Mike, again, taken out of context.
 
OK; Everyone repeat after me:

Ohmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Ohmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Hommmmmmmme; Hommmmmmmme On the Range..................

:band:
 
Just_A_Mom said:
2. Girls - can't even begin to address this. This comment is sexist and offensive to female cadets at AFA and WP. How dare you insinuate that the AFA picks women to attend based on their looks? Hopefully, you gain more maturity before you report.
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Who said the academies picked them for their looks????????????????????????????????????
:confused: ahhhhh

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I'm going crazy with these wild accusations and assumptions.
Seriously?
Are cadets at the academies also similarly close minded? :confused:
I'm done.
 
Ooooooooooommmmmmmmm. Ooooooooooommmmmmmm :thumb: that's better.

Now, as for air force cadets being cuter, I don't believe that's meant to be offensive. I would say it's complimentary to the air force academy, although it may offend the other branches, lol.

So anyways, did anyone else get a dvd in the mail from the academy? I'd rather have an appointment, but it pretty much said everything academyadmissions has, except with better music.
 
Hopeful_AFA_Girl said:
From what I've heard, it isn't too bad...

The male cadets complain it's more like a prison than anything, that it gets "lonely", the workload is impossible, and it's physically strenuous.
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haha... prison? not quite.

lonely? ehh, depends on the guy.. i'm not at all. got plenty of great friends, girls and guys..

impossible? lol... it's hard. not impossible at all. treat it like an 8 to 5 job and do your work when you're supposed to, and i'll venture to say that you'd be pretty set... it's only impossible if you dont get help, if you put things off til the last minute, etc etc. do what you're supposed to and it really isnt bad.

and physically strenuous... depends on the squadron. some are more than others... still helps to be in great shape..

geez it's about time i got one of these. i've been over at CC for so long, never thought to come over here too :)
 
Haha I was just gonna pm you and congradulate you on the jump :D welcome
 
This is a funny thread.
You won't ever know what life is like unless you come here.

HNeedle had it right, depends on the person. You can be the guy who stays in his room every day and every night or you can go and make friends. Up to you.

Hard? What worth fighting for isn't hard. Yes, let's make it easy...
 
Quick story, a question that was asked to me during the senator interview caused great strain on me LOL. It was a serious question, you can pm if you wanna know or look up past nomination topics, I posted it somewheres. The interviewer then made it even harder, I laughed and said you arecreally making this tough on me. He smilied looked me in the eye and said if it wasn't hard you wouldn't be sitting in front of he right now. I said that's true and answered the question.

Most great things take hard work.
 
I think this thread has about 5 conversations going so....

-I want that DVD too.
-I don't think the AFA Girls comment was really intended to be sexist, just a little joke.
-All the Academies have their strengths and weaknesses... military rivalries will always happen, but respect 'em all.
-Welcome HNeedle, finally joined this one
-WHERE THE DEER AND THE ANTELOPE PLAY!!!
 
Too True

I agree...the MMA, CGA is really like a civilian patrol...DOT and not Department of Defense...and they are smaller in population....I have CGA as my third choice though for aviation...C-130's is a lot of fun from what i hear from my dads friends in the AF.
 
Another ignorant comment from someone who is not in the military. CGA isn't DOT. That shouldn't need to be said.
 
unitedstatesAFA2013 said:
Who said the academies picked them for their looks????????????????????????????????????
:confused: ahhhhh

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I'm going crazy with these wild accusations and assumptions.
Seriously?
Are cadets at the academies also similarly close minded? :confused:
I'm done.
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There we go, the colors are coming through. You haven't even started and "you're done".

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that you are going to have some problems, especially in your first year. I've seen a few cadets with an attitude like yours, some of them made it through the summer, some even made it through that first semester, few made it past that.

Good luck, it seems you are off to a great start. :confused:
 
unitedstatesAFA2013 said:
Alright LITS, always taking merde out of context. Let me explain myself for those who don't like reading AND understanding, they just like reading AND getting their own conclusions out of the text.

3 sisters: when you are comparing numbers, you cannot say that e.g.: 80% of the Air Force Academy cadet uniforms are gray and 90% of the Coast Guard Academy cadet uniforms are gray, and therefore you will find more gray uniforms in the Coast Guard. Do you know why, or should I actually explain this? You cannot compare the two, be cause the numbers are not similar nor comparable. Ta-da! numbers, math, simple arithmetic. When I refer to the 3 sisters, or pretty much anyone, they/I mean "in similar numbers." I'm IN NO WAY saying that because there are LESS cadets in the Coast Guard Academy they are INFERIOR.

capishe, or nay?

...just my 2 cents
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I'm now raising the BS flag, just for you unitedstateAFA. The comment was in response to your "AFA has the cutest girls of the three academies" to which I responded "5 academies". That's not really something that can be argued....as all of them were established by the U.S. federal government, whether a high schooler thinks it or not. It was nothing to do with a percentage. If you can't figure that out, I would suggest an alternate plan for your future. This isn't the kind of stuff you should be concerning yourself with at this point in your "career".

Again, good luck during the summer...don't be a lightning rod.
 
That will be my first and last time I use Air Force jargon. So treasure it. bahahaha
 
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