<p>Can you use a webcam to send video e-mail using the issue computer?</p>
<p>Other than a printer what accessories are allowed? (i.e. wireless mouse, keyboard, monitor, docking station) </p>
<p>Would your squadrons consider these personal items assessed against your doolie 1 personal item.</p>
<p>You can have all those, buy/bring whatever you want.</p>
<p>The webcam before phone privileges you might want to hide.</p>
<p>Also, we don't really use the term doolie.</p>
<p>If you want to have a giant monitor and a nice sound system, no one can really stop you. It's an easy way to get around the "no TV" rule. Now that we are allowed to have video games, a lot of people have their counsels hooked up to what basically amounts to a mini home theatre system. Where there's a will, there's a way...</p>
<p>video games are post-recognition, right?</p>
<p>No, you just don't have to hide them after recognition.</p>
<p>some squads consider monitors and speakers a privelege, and don't let you have them. so ask once the shcool year starts, and have your 'rents bring them out if your squad is okay with it</p>
<p>Wow, that's stupid...sorry eagle! That is nowhere in the sight picture, as far as I know. Then again, neither is half the stuff we do.</p>
<p>Better to ask for forgiveness than permission, always. And then there's the "stupid 4 degree" card to play.</p>
<p>Just buy them and get yelled at for it later. The worst you'll have to do is take it to your sponsor's.</p>
<p>If the speakers are not part of the monitor, most squads will take them away. If they are part of the monitor, you're good to go. Personally, I'm using a Sharp 15" monitor (since September) which is also about 6 years old....lol. Then, I brought a 5 speaker + woofer Altec Lansing set after spring break. I love it. </p>
<p>Be careful with anything like AIM or MSNIM, the comm squad may cut your connection, they do that sometimes. Also, they prohibit Skype completely.</p>
<p>I've never heard of aim getting cut.</p>
<p>My first semester element leader thought it was wierd that I wasn't using AIM, lol.</p>
<p>i kno ppl who got 5/5/y's from squad comm for using AIM. retarded, i kno.</p>
<p>whats a 5/5/y, and why doesnt the academy have more generic rules pertaining to things like this? i think its crazy that its left up to the squadrons to make up their own rules, but ig uess thats how it is</p>
<p>Not to derail, but are all cadets required to use the issued computers? Not that it's really a huge issue, but if I could at some point bring up my nice 20" iMac I'd be pleased.</p>
<p>you could, but it could not be connected to the network</p>
<p>A 5/5/y is 5 confinements and 5 confinements with restriction till the confinements are finished. Confinements are 2 hours sitting at your desk in service dress.</p>
<p>thats insane, just for usin AIM? so, why is it left up to the squadrons to dictate usage of AIM, speakers, monitors, etc?</p>
<p>It's ultimately up to the cadet sight picture. This HUGE document is the instruction manual to being a cadet. :) It has all the regs we need for living here. From there a squad may impose stricter standards, but that's usually very difficult to do; probably only by a squadron AOC maybe, or a group AOC (cough Group 1 cough).</p>