General Questions for 2021

For Indoc next week, I know you're supposed to bring as little as possible so you don't have very much to deal with when you are received. However, I was wondering about taking things that aren't on the list. I want to take a headlamp (always super handy, and I have to imagine it would be nice to have during sea year and other training activities), and a poncho liner (to sleep under when I don't want to remake my sheets in the morning). Will I have to sneak these items in, or can I just bring them with no worries? Thanks.
 
CougarBattalion said:
For Indoc next week, I know you're supposed to bring as little as possible so you don't have very much to deal with when you are received. However, I was wondering about taking things that aren't on the list. I want to take a headlamp (always super handy, and I have to imagine it would be nice to have during sea year and other training activities), and a poncho liner (to sleep under when I don't want to remake my sheets in the morning). Will I have to sneak these items in, or can I just bring them with no worries? Thanks.
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The headlamp you can bring no problem. The poncho liner, you probably don't need it. We sleep on top of the made bunk, and you just fold the top blanket in the morning. It takes like 2 minutes. Having a personal blanket during the beginning of plebe year will actually get you in trouble (one of the few things). But if you just store the poncho liner in your personal drawer after you finish sleeping, it's fine. No upperclassman will ever go through your personal drawers.
 
Jmoney457 said:
This is true of almost everything which is provided to you at the academy, including food, haircuts, laundry services, etc. It's all of pretty poor quality. Get used to it, the government goes for the lowest bidder.
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... and Professors (only slightly tongue in cheek)
 
KPEngineer said:
... and Professors (only slightly tongue in cheek)
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Like that one engineering professor who people say never taught anything and just read off the answers to some exams that got fired for having adult content on his MARAD work computer.
 
CougarBattalion said:
For Indoc next week, I know you're supposed to bring as little as possible so you don't have very much to deal with when you are received. However, I was wondering about taking things that aren't on the list. I want to take a headlamp (always super handy, and I have to imagine it would be nice to have during sea year and other training activities), and a poncho liner (to sleep under when I don't want to remake my sheets in the morning). Will I have to sneak these items in, or can I just bring them with no worries? Thanks.
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Not sure that a headlamp would be of much use at school during Plebe year. Maybe during Sea Year, but you will be home a few times before you ship out. I can say that I used to make a living crawling tanks and ship/boat/barge etc. internals nearly every day and never found a use for a headlamp. I have seen a couple of other surveyors use them, but not to much of an advantage over a good flashlight. . . But for Indoc? Nah, keep that at home. And what they said about the poncho liner.
 
Funny story for you guys @cmakin @KPEngineer... a 4/C got an honor board in the 1st nav systems class (radar) for using the track that was programmed into the ecdis in track mode. When he was supposed to be taking radar fixes. funny stuff.
 
How does the phone policy work there? So do you get it back after acceptance day?

When can your parents/people start mailing you care packages?
I am asking because I keep getting conflicting answers for these posted questions. As there could be a possibility that we will have a merging weekend of acceptance day and parents weekend.
 
teddybear97 said:
How does the phone policy work there? So do you get it back after acceptance day?

When can your parents/people start mailing you care packages?
I am asking because I keep getting conflicting answers for these posted questions. As there could be a possibility that we will have a merging weekend of acceptance day and parents weekend.
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You should get it back pretty early since the plebe system has gone to ****. My class we got it back April towards the end of 4/C year. You can have care packages after indoc ends.
 
CougarBattalion said:
For Indoc next week, I know you're supposed to bring as little as possible so you don't have very much to deal with when you are received. However, I was wondering about taking things that aren't on the list. I want to take a headlamp (always super handy, and I have to imagine it would be nice to have during sea year and other training activities), and a poncho liner (to sleep under when I don't want to remake my sheets in the morning). Will I have to sneak these items in, or can I just bring them with no worries? Thanks.
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We were made to sleep under the sheets in indoc but that was just to force you to remake your rack every morning to reinforce how to do it since most didn't know what a hospital corner was. After indoc as far as I could tell every single person in the regiment slept on top of their bed with sleeping bag or blanket and stowed it in the overhead above your locker in the morning. It was actually a privilege for 1/C to be able to leave your blanket on your bed.

I brought back a great blanket from Pusan Korea (still have it by the way) that was big enough to fold the short way and turn sideways and climb between the two sides ... still pretty much the best sleep I've ever gotten.
 
KPEngineer said:
We were made to sleep under the sheets in indoc but that was just to force you to remake your rack every morning to reinforce how to do it since most didn't know what a hospital corner was. After indoc as far as I could tell every single person in the regiment slept on top of their bed with sleeping bag or blanket and stowed it in the overhead above your locker in the morning. It was actually a privilege for 1/C to be able to leave your blanket on your bed.

I brought back a great blanket from Pusan Korea (still have it by the way) that was big enough to fold the short way and turn sideways and climb between the two sides ... still pretty much the best sleep I've ever gotten.
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Nobody uses sleeping bags anymore at all and everyone leaves the blanket on the bed. They do rip your rack a lot so you learn to make it. Pretty useless skill though.
 
KPEngineer said:
We were made to sleep under the sheets in indoc but that was just to force you to remake your rack every morning to reinforce how to do it since most didn't know what a hospital corner was. After indoc as far as I could tell every single person in the regiment slept on top of their bed with sleeping bag or blanket and stowed it in the overhead above your locker in the morning. It was actually a privilege for 1/C to be able to leave your blanket on your bed.

I brought back a great blanket from Pusan Korea (still have it by the way) that was big enough to fold the short way and turn sideways and climb between the two sides ... still pretty much the best sleep I've ever gotten.
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Don't know that I ever brought anything back from Pusan. . . . oh. . . .
 
Jmoney457 said:
Nobody uses sleeping bags anymore at all and everyone leaves the blanket on the bed. They do rip your rack a lot so you learn to make it. Pretty useless skill though.
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Not if you make a bed at home. . . I still tend to put hospital corners on my king size bed. . . .don't use Brasso any longer. . . well, at least not too much. . .
 
cmakin said:
Not if you make a bed at home. . . I still tend to put hospital corners on my king size bed. . . .don't use Brasso any longer. . . well, at least not too much. . .
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After a year or so I kind of enjoy polishing my leathers. One of my friends last tri just put a fitted sheet and one blanket on his rack. No hospital corners, etc. And nobody said anything the whole term.
 
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