This idea came out of one of the threads in the AFA Section.
What are the "best" and "worst" aspects from your respective SA/Service?
For instance, CGA is rumored to have the best food out of them all.
Best: The West Point education is unmatched by any other SA, and is revered the world over.
Worst: You have to spend 4 years at West Point to get it.
scoutpilot said:God, can we just fast forward through the inevitable indignation, rancor, vitriol, and subsequent references to the famous case of Rubber v. Glue and just lock this one already?
Allow me to predict the future:
.....14 pages of the same 3 arguments will ensue. Mods will warn everyone to play nice and be constructive. Two more people will take potshots. Thread will be locked.
Deja Vu.
Coast Guard Academy:
Best: Small close classes, you know everyone, no wall-flowers, sense of purpose, general acceptance of "worst" list
Worst: Most regimented, No respect from sister SAa, it's in New London
Coast Guard:
Best: Small close service, responsibility early, sense of purpose, variety of mission, realpeace/wartime mission
Worst: Very small budget (over taxed, under funded), identity issues (so many missions and cross over), lack of respect (and knowledge) from DOD and sister services, working with DHS
Marine Corps:
Best: You get a desk in bootcamp (footlocker), You get to watch TV in Bootcamp (Military Training Television), Great locations for bases (the Stumps (29 Palms), the Rock (Okinawa)) Basic Training assigns some of the funniest instructors (DI's), Liberty while in Bootcamp (12 hours starting at 6am the Sunday before graduation), Court Streeet in J'ville has some of the best cultural destinations (strip clubs from all over the Orient, tattoo parlors at every other door, and the bus station)
Worst: Nothing, we are talking about the Marine Corps. There is no downside.
I think I've been to a few of those cultural destinations...
Hey Joe buy me drinkee...
Hey Joe buy me drinkee...
Hmm...sounds like Gate 2 at Kadena...
Steve
USAFA ALO
USAFA '83
Hey Joe buy me drinkee...
Random thought, Steve, about a General showing up...
Whenever VIPs would come to visit downrange, we always had to clean the hell out of everything. I finally asked one day why we did this. Are we trying to make him believe there's no dust in Iraq? Will empty trash cans make him think we generate no trash? It's ludicrous. As though he'll think we can't destroy the enemy if there's a coffee cup in the trash?
File this under "Worst"
Maybe you all have done this before but please consider your new audience. We love it!
I haven't been to the AOR, but did see some similar insanity at Lackland. The 1-star was touring one of the BMT training squads, so they buffed the dining hall floor, moved everything around, and brought out white table cloths and mini flower-vases for the tables. Now I know why some GOs are so out of touch. They never see reality after they pin on a star!