Someone have an answer to this? I have the same question about an f-16 I painted a while back.
As a freshman, not likely will you be able to put stuff up. As an upperclassman, you might have a chance, just requires permission. I have an artist type guy in my squad with lots of his artwork on his walls.
While Christcorp did a fantastic job in his post, i'll still add some more.
When I was down at AFA a couple months ago, I was talking to a some 1/C's and 2/C's and they all said that it sucks ass. They all hate it there, and most simply described it as "a means to an end." This is huge reason I will probably choose USNA. Even just from being there for a day, the atmosphere felt depressing. I think it is worse for the lower classes there. The 4/C's I saw looked completely depressed, and this was Oct. 2. The school year had just started!
I don't mean to take a dump on the AFA. It's still a great institution, but the overall morale just seems quite low.
Spend a day in my squadron and its quite the opposite, we would joke the same things, but it would be quite obvious that we enjoyed ourselves! If they truly hated it, they would not be here, plain and simple. They could have left before the 2 dig year, but they stayed. How many people will stay somewhere as a means? Guarantee you that 4,000+ wouldn't for the same ends. I have the best friends ever, do some of the most amazing things (jumping out of planes 5 times, travel to Israel and Japan twice one year, ski almost every weekend at world class ski resorts where the cost of the entire season of skiing for me was most likely less than one weekend for most travellers, get an Ivy League quality education, spend four years with like-minded people who understand everything I've gone through there because they have to, and many more), and i absolutely love the Academy. Hold your breath.....I'M A 2/C too! Never been cynical here, never plan to be cynical here.
Life is what we make it.
Also, from the two midshipmen that have lived in my squadron now, neither wanted to go back to USNA, they wanted to stay with us. The AF exchangers from my squad returning tomorrow after spending a semester at USNA and USMA called the semester "AF appreciation semesters" because they were no where near as happy there as here. No one freak out when I say this, but we've been humorously tagged the party school of the FIVE academies.
At AFA the 4C's get some fun sooner than at WP and USNA since they get recognized so early.
Uh, while i'm sure you'll argue me as usual.... The facts on this are skewed. The lives of our freshmen from June to March compared to USNA and USMA (I don't know what live at the other two academies are like as freshmen enough to comment here) are more difficult, significantly, because we are recognized two months earlier. We have more physical training, training in general that is geared towards freshmen than the other two. This is from speaking with exchangers both ways, current plebes at USNA/USMA, my high school friends that are at the other two, and correspondence online. Freshman life at AFA is probably the most stressful of the three larger academies, the reward being that we are recognized earlier. Another scale that I've been told by the same groups are that while our life is tougher to start, our quality of life shoots up and gradually gets better over the next 3 years as upperclassmen. For the other two, I've been told it starts slightly higher, but very gradually gets better by comparison. Take this as you will, its the compilation of my discussion with others.
Are cadets at the academies also similarly close minded?
Go get a lobotomy. I didn't take any of your posts as bad and read them in their proper context. The other cadets on here laughed and understood as well. Get over yourself and learn to control your anger and frustration. If its that hard for you to control your ability to TYPE when you have to think, I fear for you when you can't control your mouth when a cadre yells at you. check your attitude real quick before you prove LITS premonitions correct.
