<p>Well Potter got half of what she wanted. She got Soar. They Voluntold her without telling for CST, and Global Engagement. Nothing like a bunny and a week in the mountains. Should be a fun summer.</p>
<p>what're the options/requirements between 4 and 3 dig years? and could you kinda explain each? just for us 2012ers :)</p>
<p>Your summer will be three parts. 1) summer leave 2) Jump, Soar, or Space 3) Global Engagement ( a war game), Combat Survival Training or Ops (you get to go to a base and participate in their missions).</p>
<p>Numbers 2 and 3 there are actually combined into one summer period, lasting about 10 days each. (Each summer period is three weeks long.)</p>
<p>1) Leave
2) Jump/Soar/Space/BCT Prep and GE
3) Ops/CST (It'll be all CST for 2012 :))</p>
<p>Jump!! :D</p>
<p>Also in #2 is BCT prep. That is the worst thing to get, mainly if you suck it up badly freshman year. It involves being a nice laborer for 1.5 weeks.</p>
<p>Yup, I've got Soaring and CST (which I actually volunteered for and wanted to take...I don't know what's wrong with me!)</p>
<p>I don't know what's wrong with you either! ;) I'm hoping (fingers crossed) for an immersion trip to Israel first summer period.</p>
<p>Immersion trip to Israel? SWEET! How'd you sign up for that?????</p>
<p>Yeah, I sucked it up pretty bad on Academics for the first half of Fall semester, then improved by the end of the semester. Finals hit me kind of hard though, so I didn't do nearly as good as I wanted to. So, I've got Space this summer. :(</p>
<p>Oh well, I've heard it isn't TOO bad, and it's better than doing BCT prep. Death-by-powepoint, here I come!</p>
<p>It is what you make of it Falcons.</p>
<p>The Israel trip is a JINSA sponsored group that goes to Israel to learn more about the Middle East. Not many know about the program. I had one guy in my squad do it last year and other doing it this year. So they helped me find out about it. I am the number one alternate for the group. Except for last year, they have always taken alternates. <em>fingers crossed</em></p>
<p>Do you go to a military group there or what? It sounds really cool!</p>
<p>Son got:</p>
<p>1) CST (Voluntold)
2) Leave
3) Not sure...his Airmanship course number is a soaring IP upgrade course, which he isn't eligible for. He is checking on a correction. He is hoping for jump, but would be fine with soar.</p>
<p>Cadet Space Wings, aka "probation wings"...I have them :(
Space is ok. You do get to go to the Lockheed rocket factory in Denver, "fly" a satellite, and see the inside of ICBM silos and control centers at F.E. Warren.</p>
<p>HUA for leave and AETC this summer! (AETC - running enlisted basic training in Lackland with MTIs)</p>
<p>So, preliminary summer schedules "officially" came out today.</p>
<p>1: Ops
2: GE, Jump
3: Leave</p>
<p>The only thing that I don't know yet is which base I'll be getting for Ops - apparently, that info won't come out until later.</p>
<p>Happy. :)</p>
<p>i know it really depends on personal prefs.</p>
<p>but is it better to do SOARING first and then do JUMP later or vise-virsa ?</p>
<p>I want to do both soaring and jump... 70% want to be a pilot (V-22) but really want to become jump qualified while @ the USAFA.</p>
<p>Depends. If you want to be a soaring instructor pilot, do soaring. If not, I suggest jump. If you do jump, you can do soaring any semester as an upperclassman. If you do soaring, you can only do jump as a senior. </p>
<p>Either will not really influence your aircraft at all. That is decided at UPT. And soaring experience is debatable on how much it helps at UPT. I think it helps more on learning bold face rather than flying itself. </p>
<p>I would love to fly the V-22, if I went pilot, I would be going for it.</p>
<p>thanks... hornetguy.</p>
<p>good advice. :D</p>
<p>Question on your Summer Schedule ? Do you guys get much time off ? For example, when you have OP's do you still get a day off ? Or when you have Jump or Soar, is it mainly an 8-5 type schedule ? Is GE a 24/7 type deal since your out playing war games ? Just wondered what was ahead ?</p>
<p>Another question... Do you have to take CST? I thought that it was a mandatory training that all cadets had to take, but it seems from the posts that you volunteer for it, or a "voluntold" as Stealth's son was.</p>
<p>jump is 10 hours a day without lunch. I think it was 5-3? or 6-3. something like that. Soaring is half a day. Ops you have weekends off, days are usually 8-4:30. GE for the first 3 days is 6-5ish, next 7 or so are 24/7.</p>