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Post by: hawker238 on June 25, 2005, 11:27:58 PM

Just thought I'd let everyone know....


Sunday is my last day on this board for quite some time.  Monday at 0700, I'm scheduled to report to the United States Coast Guard Academy.  I've got the 8 week "swab summer" (I'm not sure why they don't just say plebe), including a week long trip at Spain and Portugal on this beauty:

(http://www.basecamp.cnchost.com/us-coast-guard-eagle.jpg)


Wish me luck. :)


Anyone ever do the Academy thing?  How was your plebe/swab/indoctrination summer?

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Post by: Hangtime on June 25, 2005, 11:43:20 PM

G'luck, kiss a grommet for me.

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Post by: SOB on June 26, 2005, 12:20:56 AM

Good luck...and remember; when they roll out the barrel with the hole in it, run boy, run for your life! ;)

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Post by: Gunslinger on June 26, 2005, 12:32:34 AM

now THAT sounds like fun.  Enjoy these years man.....seriously they go by quick  :aok

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Post by: Hangtime on June 26, 2005, 12:58:20 AM

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Originally posted by Gunslinger
now THAT sounds like fun.  Enjoy these years man.....seriously they go by quick  :aok

Yah. Who could forget quality time in the barrell?

;)

Remember, one hand fer yerself; one for the ship, Hawker. ;)

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Post by: Nilsen on June 26, 2005, 03:18:03 AM

Enjoy hawker.. 8 weeks on that is prolly hard work and you will bleed, cry and puke...

But you will love it :)

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Post by: eagl on June 26, 2005, 04:44:38 AM

Congrats and good luck Hawker.

I graduated from the USAF Academy, class of 1994.  The first summer sucked.  I wanted to quit almost every day.  Then the first year sucked too, and I wanted to quit every day.  I'd get up in the morning, look in the mirror, and try to find one specific reason to quit for when they asked me.  I usually couldn't find anything other than I hated it there.  If I was able to come up with something specific, then I'd try to find one reason to stay.  That was usually pretty easy, so I stayed.

My advice is to not quit for any reason during your first 2 years.  You'll regret it for the rest of your life.  If you really have a better opportunity after your first 2 years, then go for it.  But I know of only a handful of people like that, and everyone else will always wonder if they could have hacked it.  Yes, if you get a 4.0 your first 2 years and are offered a full ride at Princeton or Harvard, consider jumping ship.  But otherwise, stick it out.  4 years really isn't all that long and you'll have opportunities you really can't get anywhere else.

My only other advice is to take the GREs when you graduate.  I was sick of taking tests and headed to pilot training, so I didn't even though they would have been fairly easy for me despite my relatively low grades.  Later I realized that good GRE scores would have been the ONLY thing that could get me into a good grad program given those low grades I had, but I'd pissed away the opportunity because I just wanted to get the heck out of there as quickly as possible.  Bad mistake, and I missed an opportunity for the USAF to pay for a Masters degree because I couldn't prove the academic qualifications necessary to enter a quality program.

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Post by: hawker238 on June 26, 2005, 08:29:20 AM

Thanks eagl, and thanks everyone else. :)

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Post by: Nilsen on June 26, 2005, 08:35:28 AM

When you get back, you can give us a resymè of the trip and the places you have seen :)