Wild Blue! Glad to hear from you again. I got word last month that I'm headed to the prep school! Super pumped to have you as an upperclassman when I get to USAFA. Cheers!
Been watching you before enlistment and now in tech learning avionics on the F-35. Definitely a dream to join the academy and will definitely apply once I get to my first duty station. Thanks for all of the info, definitely keeping me motivated! Keep up the videos!
Just wanted to let you know I enjoy watching your videos and following your success, adventures and learning experiences. I know you are focused and determined. Keep up the good works 👍
Congratulations Cadet Simmons, I really wanted to have an opportunity to meet you a year ago during the Summer Seminar Program. I decided that USAFA wasn’t for me and chose Virginia Military Institute’s Air Force ROTC Program instead. When 4 years pass, I would love to meet you again in our careers as Officers. Thank you for advising me and a lot of others and moving me towards a Military career.
There are 3 quarters in the summer. You can take a class. Take 3 weeks leave. Assist with kids sports camps. Or Academic seminars. A lot help with the new freshman training and bootcamp. Some travel for research. Some intern with companies associated with the military. Some do go serve on another base. But everything is pretty much broken down into 3 weeks. I'm sure I didn't hit on everything. But yeah. No sitting around all summer.
Way to go! After I completed my first semester I got disenrolled because I had a bad GPA(0.7) & bad fitness & bad military. I did the Drum & Bugle Corps because success in music made me feel better about failing everything else. They will stand by and let you face-plant. I went to Academic Counseling for 2 months. It basically consisted of the LT telling me I was lazy and worthless for an hour a week. They expect you to figure things out for your self.
Hey matt, 23' appointee here. What would you say is better in the long run- Taking harder classes or easier classes to get a better GPA? Love your videos by the way!
I was surprised at first to hear how everything is on you to fix any academic issues. Then I realized that’s part of teaching you how to be the leader you will be. You have to know if something goes wrong what happened and how to correct it.
Also I took a full year of calculus and chemistry in highschool so will I still have to do it at USAFA or will they replace it with like trig or geometry or sum
Hi congratulations on everything. My husband asked if there was some recruiters he can talk to he’s active duty now and doing well but would like to learn more about school and benefits for his family and so on.
If he's interested in the Air Force Academy specifically then unfortunately he is already not qualified. Cadets at the Air Force Academy must not be married or have any kind of dependents.
If I already have a car and want to join the air force. What would be the right choice? Take it with me or leave it at home? I know some jobs require a car to get from point a to b. If I were to take it with me to a duty station and get transferred could I possibly be able to take it and ship it back home if I'd deploy? Let me know. Thank you.
I have a couple of questions. 1: What is the USAF? (what is done there) 2: What do you go there for? (a specific job requires you to or it's required to go) that's all i can think of at this moment if I have more i'll ask.
Hey, I got word that I’m headed to the academy direct admission, (I’m to old for prep school) can you tell me what it’s like prior enlisted going to the academy and are their any Benefits for being prior?
Fahim I am 22, you have to be admitted by your 23rd birthday for direct admission. And by your 22nd birthday for the prep school. Since I am already 22 I missed the prep school. And since my birthday is in December I will already be in the academy before I am 23
i truly wiah you every success. I suffered brain damage as a child, so for +/- 60 years I've struggled with dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, ADHD, and other "challenges" that weren't really understood until long after I was socially promoted through high school. I managed to pass college algebra through a lot of tutoring and a very understanding mathematics professor. If you could imagine the Late comedian George Carlin as a math professor, that's what you would have in my professor. Now, 30 years later we're Facebook friends! Fortunately, those challenges weren't handed down to my daughter. She's now a Tx. A&M meteorologist/flight planner. I think the only thing I would have passed at the US Air Force Academy would have been.....gas! 😧😧
I think it’s bullshit I feel like prior enlisted airmen should just abide by upperclassman rules just like in tech school I mean we already know the military etiquette I feel like we would have a lot more great officers if that was the way it was
