<p>is there anyway to get the beast knowledge beforehand</p>
<p>beast knowledge for what?</p>
<p>to learn it</p>
<p>You're probably getting a little ahead of yourself. Apply and get accepted first. Then you can memorize Beast knowledge if you want. But according to previous postings, that's not a good idea. Better to learn it at the same time your Beast-mates are learning it.</p>
<p>okay thanks well i just wanted to learn it! not that i was like i know i'm gonna get in just wanted to learn it! in case if i went to rotc or something i would know what i needed!</p>
<p>Plebe Knowledge, I am assuming, is very academy-specific. What USMA wants you to memorize would be totally different than what USNA or AFA would give new cadets to learn. </p>
<p>That said, ROTC units in civilian schools are very different from the academies. I do not believe they emphasize this type of memorization. </p>
<p>It is not a book of "how to's" (...march, salute, address an officer, etc.), but one of what most new cadets are describing as "useless knowledge". While it may seem totally useless to them now, I recently read a link posted on this forum that was written from the perspective of a graduate who found himself serving in battle where everything was going wrong. Ironically, he realized that the "useless knowledge" memorization from his early academy days was what helped to train his brain to sort out the important from the trivial when it really mattered in life and death situations. He could think and act quickly under the most adverse of conditions because some things were just automatic. So even the memorization of trivial things serves a purpose in training our new young officers. I'll be reminding my new cadet of this in the very near future, I am sure!</p>
<p>yah, i read it too, it really is a good article</p>
<p>yes i read it to thanks for filling me in though Anonagron</p>
<p>i know that you have to learn pointless poems and the ranks in each branch of the military. I looked at a copy of the 'plebe bible' when I went to visit WP a few months ago. I compared it to my father's copy of reef points. Some of things they have to memorize are similar. Most things are different though.</p>