Plebe at USNA--give me your questions!

[elorodelmar4]

I could definitely find someone! Once I'm allowed to private message, I'll give you someone's info.

I'm hoping you can respond to my message. I am the one who asked if you could put me in touch with someone who came from A School into USNA, or at least someone from Fleet into USNA. Thank you so much.

 

[Peeki_the_chicken]

I will be taking my CFA next week. My weakness is the basketball throw. I can only throw 45 feet, and I am only 5' 2". I have been practicing... lots... and I hit 45 feet everytime...nothing better than that ever. I would like to throw farther than that, but is it something I should put extra time into? (regardless of my performances in other events)

 

[txfwindian]

I will be taking my CFA next week. My weakness is the basketball throw. I can only throw 45 feet, and I am only 5' 2". I have been practicing... lots... and I hit 45 feet everytime...nothing better than that ever. I would like to throw farther than that, but is it something I should put extra time into? (regardless of my performances in other events)

There are few video on YouTube, you can look at them. Also search for Stew Smith, he has a great video on bball throw practice.

 

[justdoit19]

What's for lunch?

FYI, if you are seriously wondering, USNA participates in the NEXT MEAL app program. You can see breakfast, lunch and dinners every day.

 

[Old Navy BGO]

FYI, if you are seriously wondering, USNA participates in the NEXT MEAL app program. You can see breakfast, lunch and dinners every day.

Back in the day, one of the required Rates every plebe was required to know and recite was the menu for the next meal (the whole menu, not just the main course ..for example Mexican meal broken down into its components was something like "tortillas, meat, shredded lettuce, shredded cheese, salsa and sour cream...."_). Please don't tell me that this has been relegated to an APP now. ( I have Classmates who can still recite the menu for some of the highlights ; for me the old "Why didn't you say Sir ...." response is hardwired in my brain and I can recite it almost 39 years later.

So, the question for the current Plebes... do you still have to know the following daily rates:

1) Professional Knowledge
2) Newspaper Article (News and Sports)
3) Chow Calls
4) Menu for next meal
5) Days until BEAT ARMY, Christmas, Ring Dance and First Class graduation
6) Officers of the Watch
7) Sporting events in the Yard (actually part of the chow call --this list was really long on weekends).
8) Ship visits


Other grads, what am I forgetting ?

 

[OldRetSWO]

Back in the day, one of the required Rates every plebe was required to know and recite was the menu for the next meal (the whole menu, not just the main course ..for example Mexican meal broken down into its components was something like "tortillas, meat, shredded lettuce, shredded cheese, salsa and sour cream...."_). Please don't tell me that this has been relegated to an APP now. ( I have Classmates who can still recite the menu for some of the highlights ; for me the old "Why didn't you say Sir ...." response is hardwired in my brain and I can recite it almost 39 years later.

So, the question for the current Plebes... do you still have to know the following daily rates:

1) Professional Knowledge
2) Newspaper Article (News and Sports)
3) Chow Calls
4) Menu for next meal
5) Days until BEAT ARMY, Christmas, Ring Dance and First Class graduation
6) Officers of the Watch
7) Sporting events in the Yard (actually part of the chow call --this list was really long on weekends).
8) Ship visits


Other grads, what am I forgetting ?

Not just next meal, the next THREE meals which actually meant knowing four since you could be stopped and asked as you left the Midshipman Wardroom at the end of a meal. . . as soon as you finished one meal, you needed to still know the next three.

We had to know the movies in town
Three articles from the front page and three from the sports page.

 

[A1Janitor]

1) Professional Knowledge
2) Newspaper Article (News and Sports)
3) Chow Calls
4) Menu for next meal
5) Days until BEAT ARMY, Christmas, Ring Dance and First Class graduation
6) Officers of the Watch
7) Sporting events in the Yard (actually part of the chow call --this list was really long on weekends).
8) Ship visits

I just asked my son:

1. Yes - midterm is in one week.
2. News: international, national and sports
3. Chow calls twice a day
4. Menu for next three meals
5. He spit out all of them plus days to spring break
6. He spit out the officer of the watch and the midshipman officer of the watch
7. Basketball plays tonight but he doesn’t need to know sports.
8. Don’t have to know ship visits
9. Have to also remember plebe summer rates.

He didn’t say this ... but I think it is harder to remember everything now because you old guys had a lot less history to learn.

 

[justdoit19]

I’m sure the app replaces whatever way meals were posted back in the day. All info these days in on your phones. Good or bad, it’s reality. View attachment 3811BTW, here ‘ya go if you are interested

 

[NavyHoops]

Instead of Plebes running around and printing menus and taping it to the back of their doors they have an app now. Doesn’t replace chow calls. Your list of rates is what we had ‘back in the day’. 3 meals which was really 4 because the minute you stood up from one you had to know the next 3. In reality you get used to them and the menus repeat. It’s why us old grads can still recite decades later. If only they had the King Hall menus as a category on Jeopardy...

 

[Old Navy BGO]

3 meals which was really 4 because the minute you stood up from one you had to know the next 3. In reality you get used to them and the menus repeat.

True ! The downside of the app is that upperclass have a ready reference to check you... I learned early that reciting any rate with confidence was more important than accuracy (until of course the Upperclass is standing in your face during a Friday chowcall, holding the Schedule of Events, and it has 20 sporting events !