I have my boy back! A bit sunburned, tired, lots of poison ivy, and full of stories. The stories from the tent city windstorm are scary. As are the reports of meeting a rattler, seeing brown recluse and black widow spiders.....haha, never thought about the wildlife they would be meeting.
He said the poison ivy was impossible to avoid, but he does not have it on the parts of his body that would have come in direct contact with it, like hands and face, so I think he got it from removing his clothes.
They do give them an evaluation/counseling at the end, which he thought basically consisted of comments and is sent to their PMS. He "doesn't remember" what it said, so not sure if they are very specific comments, or pretty general. Awards were given at graduation and he said each platoon had to pick 4 cadets for these awards, and they were chosen 2 weeks in. He had no idea what the awards were as he said they could not understand what they were saying at graduation and better than I could on the live feed.
All in all he said it was a good experience, he learned things, and coming from a Military College, it was NOT repetitive of things he had already learned.