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We bought our son a Leatherman and had his name engraved on it. He said it was an invaluable tool for him during Beast last summer. Another thing the cadets like is a lighter. Not so much during beast, but during the AY. They use them to burn the ends of cords to keep them from fraying, and...

I would not recommend sending actual photos, but we did print a few silly/happy photos and included them within the body of our letters last summer, and that was just fine.

Air Assault and Airborne are terms I have become familiar with through my plebe cadet, but I had not heard of Opfor until reading this thread. I tried googling it, and learned that it's an acronym for 'Opposing Forces', but little else. Would anyone mind giving this non-military Mom a brief and...

I want to echo the thanks from the original poster. Our DS is also a New Cadet. The information we gained from this site was extremely helpful in the journey to date.

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GreyHogs: My son's district nomination appeared in the portal yesterday and was listed twice identically, and this also happened yesterday to someone else we know. I am guessing there is no significance to it, but instead there was possibly some glitch in the system yesterday that caused the...

Exciting news--congratulations to you and your daughter!!

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Hello ScoutPilot Hello to ScoutPilot from a fellow Tennessean! We live in East Tennessee. My son is a USMA applicant for the class of 2015, and I stumbled across this board while in search of information about the process and the school. The forum has been very helpful, and I thank folks like...