Not Much New

So, there's really been nothing too new in the ROTC lately. I had to give an "advocacy" briefing yesterday and I managed to get through it alright. We also had Lead Lab today and that was pretty normal and not terribly fun. PT has been the same although when we get there the activity is usually games, Cody Peterson and I usually just end up doing our own work out and run around and stuff. Playing volley ball or ultimate frisbee isn't that great. Dining out is in a few weeks, I have to DJ the dance afterwards so I'm looking forward to that. The next week after that is Orlando for Hurricon and I'm super excited for that.

So this semester I have been trying to get a incentive ride in an F-16 and I've been getting jerked around trying to get it done without bugging some one to death. It's not working. Finally last week we got some good news that we were good to go for this past Tuesday. Well we were all ready to go and we called Monday just to make sure we were good to go. We got bumped off the flights because of some Air Force Academy cadets were comming up and they got priority. I called the scheduling guy and got a run around that it was my fault for not getting scheduled properly. I called him today to check to see if I could go next week and things sounded good and he said he would call me back within an hour. It's now several hours later and he never got back to me. I'm going to call tomorrow and get an answer and a ride and I don't care who I have to make mad.

Er, er!

There's not that much new for me in the ROTC. I took the PFT yesterday and got an acceptable score. There's and AAS business meeting tomorrow night. I got a date for dining out (Emily). I had class today and it was standard. In the 400 class we have advocacy briefings right now and it's kinda boring, but not too bad. In the 300 class we are watching Saving Private Ryan and analyzing it for leadership stuff. It's been pretty good so far. Tomorrow for lead lab is carreer day and there are going to be about 13 officers there. I hope it turns out well. There's also going to be pizza!

Base Visits

Part of the ROTC is the base visits. For the most part they have been really fun. I have now been on 3 base visits. The first one was to Davis-Monthan and Luke AFB in Arizona. It was really interesting and helpful to me in learning more about the Air Force. The next one that the corps went on I couldn't go, I was bummed, but I did manage to make it to the next one which was at Peterson AFB in Colorado. That one was lots of fun too. We had a C-130 ride all lined up for the trip which promised to be pretty good, but the take off got scrubbed because the winds were too high. We still got a short taxi on the aircraft though. Just a few days ago we went to Nellis AFB and that was pretty cool even though we were only there for a night and a few hours. I thought about it and realized that this was one of the first Air Force Bases that I have ever been to. My dad took us there when I was about 17 and we got to see a F-117 that was on display there. When we got back there just the other day I was re-reminded that this the base that really made me think seriously about joining the Air Force. Anyway, while we were there we got to see the Thunderbird squadron and see the Thunderbird F-16s on the flight line, it was pretty cool. And of course today we got to ride in a pretty new C-17 out of March Field, and that was cool too.