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About how long of a vacation break did you get during summer each year?
While you are waiting for Porksausage to reply, I can say that my son, who is also a rising Cow, got about 4 weeks of break his first summer, after doing Buckner and Air Assault, but it was in two separate two week periods, thus making travel to and from more of a challenge. This summer he is Cadre for the second half of Beast. There were other opportunities he had, including one in Poland and Israel, but the schedules didn't work, so he is looking forward to almost six weeks of break. That is a lot of break for a WP Cadet. There are so many required and additional optional or recommended things that Cadets can and have to do in the summer. Keep in mind also that when a Cadet fails a required class, it must be made up immediately in the summer. That is typically three weeks.

Honestly though, Cadets look forward to many of the things they do in the summer. But at the same time everyone wants more R&R at home too.
 
CDT PorkSausage - I asked on another board this same question: Is there some kind of drinking water quality problem (lead, bad tasting/smell, sediments, etc) at West Point, namely in the barracks? Much obliged...
 
Cadets learn to march in step.

Sea people are always happy to leave marching in step to land people. The cadets always look great at Army-Navy, as I expect them to. Sea people maneuver ships and subs and airplanes in formation. Our feet, not so much.
 
During beast how in-depth does the training go? I’m asking because I want to know what might transfer over from ROTC
 
Can you articulate, in one thousand words or less, why the USMA cadet experience is superior to that experienced by midshipmen attending Canoe U? ;)

The OP can use this picture..."a picture is worth a thousand words"...

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Cadets learn to march in step.

Sea people are always happy to leave marching in step to land people. The cadets always look great at Army-Navy, as I expect them to. Sea people maneuver ships and subs and airplanes in formation. Our feet, not so much.




Although, you have to admit, what we often have to use as our parade ground isn't always the most stable of platforms from which to practice precision marching upon.
 
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