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    Another allergy / asthma question

    DS was similar to your situation. Had not used inhaler for just a year by his senior year. But continued to take singulaire for allergy symptoms. He was DQ'd -due to asthma diagnosis. We had a spirometry test performed and he had normal (no asthma) results. Turns out his early asthma diagnosis...
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    Got Nom, request a weekend visit to increase appt chances?

    I speak from no experience or authority - just a 2019 cadet parent that entertained a similar thought process last spring. I assume admissions knows all applicants are serious and interested and that shades or degrees of exactly how serious / interested a candidate is....would be totally...
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    2015 Grad, Send Questions!

    Thank you! I was inquiring if in hindsight you would have done anything different at the academy. Study more - study less - that type of thing.
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    2015 Grad, Send Questions!

    Any things you would do differently knowing what you know now?
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    mixtape

    Oops - didn't realize this was already a thread. I'll post this anyways without reading the thread. Be careful of your thoughts, for your thoughts become your words. Be careful of your words, for your words become your actions. Be careful of your actions, for your actions become your habits...
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    Parents Weekend - What to Bring?

    DS clarified that his request was indeed just for clothes for the hotel pool. Thanks for all the good intell. We will reel in / resist our instincts to pack/bring way more than he could use... Sent using the Service Academy Forums® mobile app
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    Parents Weekend - What to Bring?

    All good to know. Thank you! Sent using the Service Academy Forums® mobile app
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    Parents Weekend - What to Bring?

    Our C4C just asked for a variety of civilian clothes to wear. We're assuming they're allowed to be out of uniform off base. Sent using the Service Academy Forums® mobile app
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    Sponsor Parent

    Our C4C DS indicates he signed up/requested a sponsor family. To date none has been assigned - they seem short on families - he says usafa asked he not inquire until next month presumably to give them some time to recruit additional sponsor families. No worries from him or us as he is very...
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    Sponsor Parent

    Our C4C doesn't have a sponsor family yet - is that common at this point in the year? Sent using the Service Academy Forums® mobile app
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    Wow, AFA Losing Cadets!

    I mistakenly thought you were referencing incidents at USAFA this summer. Sent using the Service Academy Forums® mobile app
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    Wow, AFA Losing Cadets!

    Momba - I can see how two sides of the same situation can honestly and truthfully see things differently. I am sure there has been hazing (depending on one's definition). Pushing an exposed weakness to a breaking point could be called malicious or could alternatively be called a duty. I can see...
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    Wow, AFA Losing Cadets!

    I am very sorry to have circled back. I hadn't read the specific situations you described. I was speaking in general terms about choice/blame/victimhood/decision ownership raised by momba's comment about someone "being destroyed" (i know now I may have misinterpreted what she meant) past the...
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    Wow, AFA Losing Cadets!

    I would think that in bct their objective (basic cadets) is not to question or trust but to react, survive and do what they're told. It seems rather simple. Still struggling to understand who would be targeted for malicious reasons. Cadre would be bound to expose and test weaknesses....and go...
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    Wow, AFA Losing Cadets!

    But if someone in bct appears to be weak in terms of not being positive in the midst of correction/hardship, not resilient and / or not having a warrior's spirit (whatever that means though everyone knows it when they see it) - you can bet that person was pressed to see if they indeed were...
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    Wow, AFA Losing Cadets!

    This makes me very sad for any individual who could be destroyed to the point of there being no way to rebuild. At the risk of coming across as very insensitive, this mindset suggests a rather fragile individual, someone not resilient or positive "enough" and not someone with a warrior's spirit...
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    Wow, AFA Losing Cadets!

    And the individual appears to have been caught and is being prosecuted - if I read it correctly - suggesting the system "worked". Sent using the Service Academy Forums® mobile app
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    Wow, AFA Losing Cadets!

    AlexT - it would take an especially mentally tough individual to persevere through the scenario you describe. In this example, what cadet behavior led to that particular cadre response. Which SA? Sent using the Service Academy Forums® mobile app
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    Wow, AFA Losing Cadets!

    I think much of this debate boils down to perspective...he said/she said. Winston Churchill's quote - "history is written by the victors" comes to mind. All the accusations being levied could apply to the BCT experience that my son had and related to us. No different than the OP's son's claim...
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    Wow, AFA Losing Cadets!

    My son described similar experience throughout - not necessarily alone one on one - but relentless beat down. He understood all of this to be part of a "game with a purpose". One cadre in particular seemed to "have it in" for him no matter what he did - again which was totally expected. Even...
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