<p>I'm going in November to CVW and I was just wondering how the October CVW was. So,</p>
<p>how many people attended?
What exactly did you do?
Anything I should take that is out of the ordinary or would be nice to have?
Best Part?
Worst Part (if any)?</p>
<p>thank you much</p>
<p>A friend from NASS and I had a conversation on facebook about it.</p>
<p>Him: i'm at annapolis now. it's pretty sick, totally different from NASS. it's a lot more chill than i thought it would be, it doesn't really look like plebes get yelled at non-stop like i thought and there's always a way to get out of other things.</p>
<p>Me: Getting out of things this early in the year? Your assigned company was probably really relaxed.. right?</p>
<p>Him: yeah i was in 7th company, which is one of the more relaxed ones from what they said. as for what you do there, you arrive thursday, get good, watch the same videos that you've seen six times before, briefings, sign in, get assigned a company, and then you're assigned to a plebe. you get there during study hour so you pretty much chill then. the next day you do exactly what your mid does, and he'll drag you around everywhere (that's where 'drag' comes from i guess) to his classes and formation and pretty much wherever it is he goes during the day. you won't do much friday night either. saturday you'll wake up and do SMT, which was all this fire squad stuff where we cleared rooms and did stuff like that. after that you'll either go home, or stay for a football game if they have one.</p>
<p>Me: Sounds exciting. How was the normal day?</p>
<p>Him: the classes i went to were pretty chill and seemed to be equilevant to the AP version at high school. other than that it's pretty much just for you to get acclamated. the only time anyone kept track of where i was, was when we checked in for taps at night.</p>
<p>Me: During formation.. do you get to stand aside or take apart in it?</p>
<p>Him: well my mid was an equipment manager for football, so he never had to do noon formation. and a drag is an excuse to get out of the other formations and chow calls and all that.</p>
<p>but they had a parade, during that we all just sat on the bleachers and watched. for the other stuff you could participate if you wanted. i'm sure most teachers would be cool with a drag participating in class. for everything else they do a good job of making you a part of it, i got to do all the stuff for SMT in the morning which was pretty cool.</p>
<p>Me: Sounds fun as hell! So where did you sleep?</p>
<p>Him: it was pretty fun. definitely made me more gung-ho for annapolis than i was before. i slept on a broken cot in the mid's room. they were the same type of rooms we slept in for NASS, three beds, sink, etc.</p>
<p>and I'll post more later if you'd like!</p>
<p>lol that's actually pretty accurate. I had a great time going to crew with my mid and getting to see the basic lifestyle. My favorite part is when the crew coach let me go out on a boat with him to watch crew while they practiced. Worst part was probably trying to sleep on the broken cot or waiting around with my mid while he was on watch. About 100 attended and azncreation's post sums up the classes and Friday pretty well. Chow calls are interesting. It was also kind of funny how i never knew where my mid was going next since he had to do 90 degree turns at all his corners. Eventually he started telling me "We're going this way" :p</p>
<p>Overall it definitely helped me make my final SA decision.</p>
<p>Did you end up bringing a sleeping bag? I have heard it it makes more sense than sheets--you don't have to worry about making the "broken cot.!"</p>
<p>Ya I actually had my sleeping bag on top of the cot but my head and feet still dangled off of the ends. :/
In hindsight I would've brought a really fluffy sleeping bag (mine was really thin) and slept on the floor.</p>
<p>You'd have missed an important lesson of USNA...learning to sleep anywhere, anytime.</p>
<p>Oh don't worry, one of the mids during english taught me that one ;)</p>