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It doesn't help when people don't know what an officer is either...sigh
Me: I'm actually going to the air force academy..
Them: Why wouldn't you go to college, it seems as if you did well in school.
Me: I am going to college...
Them: Oh really?! Where?
Me: Ugh..
Ironic but so true. My clothes literally say "air force academy," and people are like, "Haha what's an academy, is that a joke?" No, it's a college, and of course there is no other colleges in Colorado than CU and CSU. Party colleges and Colorado. Should I expect anything else?
Girl in my class: Oh you are a senior, where are you going to school?
Me: the Naval Academy.
Girl: Oh, did you even apply to any colleges?
Me: ...
Agreed! My son is going to be sooooo disappointed to find out that he is going to have to deal with academics after a full day flying jets and learning to maneuver/land the space shuttle. Maybe I'll wait until he gets there on I-Day and let USAFA break the bad news to him.Wait a minute, I didn't apply to the Air Force Academy knowing that it was an actual college!
I can understand that response from a high school girl.
I have had the same dialog with a United States Army recruiter, an active duty Staff Sergeant.
Me: Sorry, he's not interested, he has an appointment to the US Air Force Academy.
Army Recruiter: Has he made any plans for college when he's finished?
And you'd be surprised how many school administrators and guidance counselors are just as ignorant about all 5 of the academies.
"So is MIT different than ROTC?" If you want to know why our school has never sent anyone to MIT before, I think I may have found part of the problem!
How can people that live in this country not know about Annapolis or Air Force? Where have these people been all their lives? I knew of the academies when I was 12 years old when my parents took us to see Annapolis and West Point.
I still can't get over that.
Or as in our case 'the elite' adults in our hood think they know everything and that you are an idiot for going to a service academy to become some kind of baby killer instead of going to Brown or Columbia to become a Liberal approved whatever....
We live in a very LIBERAL, often ANTI-MILITARY attitude school district where if any of the top kids don't get into an Ivy, Duke, MIT, Amherst, Swarthmore or one of the Stanford/Cal west coast schools then they consider it a failure. My son has a couple of friends for years at school he can't associate outside of school with easily because their parents won't allow their kids to be associated with any kid who's family owns any firearms or serves in the military. Yeah, you can find places like that around here. And like many here, most of his friends never heard of the AFA before my son came along and they still don't know what it really is nor have any curiosity to find out. And yes, I've heard stuff like, well, are you going to go to college when you are done with that or will you ever be able to get into a grad school coming from there. Some have the attitude that if you are going to school in Colorado then you are just a total loser who couldn't hack it in a real college so you had to settle for something less. There are just no schools worthy unless it's near one of the coasts...
It is such a shock to my wife and I. I told my son that some schools make a big deal about kids getting accepted to a SA and that they would even announce it on the school PA system when they found out they recieved an appointment. My son just laughed and said that would be the most embarrassing thing ever at his HS, not that they would ever do that for a SA anyway.