Posted on 03/09/2008 9:46:44 AM PDT by radar101
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May God bless and keep watch over this cadet and may he continue to bless our nation with young men and women such as this.
mrs
By the time he graduates? Give me a break. Even before he gets his ring, Tomczak already has acquired an overly inflated opinion of himself. He's got a hell of a lot of work to do after he graduates to repay the taxpayers.
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Thank you Cadet Tomczak !
I am so proud of these precious few and pray for more like them.
Obviously spoken by someone who hasn’t got a clue. Go get back under your rock, insect.
He is the son of one of my classmates. USAFA class of ‘76.
I dare say that the motivations do vary but by in large they do come back as I did.
Thank you too!
Count me among those without a clue.
I will immediately grant you that these fine folks will, over the course of their careers, repay us many fold.
But BEFORE graduation? How?
Many days I couldn’t believe they paid me to be a fighter pilot. Others, they couldn’t pay enough. :)
Don't listen to your "friends", Cadet. Your "friends" are what Cartman calls "College Know-It-All Hippies." In ten years, you'll be well into a successful and responsible career either in or out of the military. In the meantime, most of these friends (who you'll never see again) will be holding down meaningful employment; like clerking at Barnes & Noble or assistant managing the night shift at Denny's and still living in their parents' basements.
It is an unfortunate title, leading one to presume the guy is an idiot until you actually read the article. The article is sound, however, and all he needed was a good editor. He is young of good heart and will learn.
By spending their every waking moment learning how to be professional military officers and sacrificing, while their high school classmates at ‘normal’ colleges spend much of their time on indulgences. Nothing is “free” at a military Academy - nothing. Been there; done that.
I tried unsuccessfully to get an appointment to the AF Academy before I graduated from high school in 1959. Imagine my dismay when I discovered, as a freshman at the Univ of Colorado that fall, that the kid down the hall had gotten the appointment I had wanted so badly, but he had quit the academy at the end of the the summer of 1959 because he found the physical aspects too demanding.
You are living proof of what I used to tell my plebes - you OWE the 10 people who didn’t get in here because YOU did. The political aspect is probably the weakest point in the admissions process. I just got lucky - I could never make it in today.
That is interesting. I used to attend church with a number of AF officers and have observed that there does exist some sort of rivalry or resentment between AFA grads. and the non-AFA officers. Very subtle. Is there an elitism that the AFA inculcates? A sense of entitlement? Are AFA grads that much more educated and intelligent than their non-AFA counterparts? Do the non-AFA grads resent the AFA people because their own educational routes to the officer corps entailed a lot more ( perceived ) hardship than that of the AFA people?
I thought it a curious social phenomenon, and was just wondering if anyone could speak to it.
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