The highlight of the freshman football season was the trip over Thanksgiving to Monterrey, Mexico, via two nights in San Antonio at the Randolph AFB VOQ. (Actually, it’s a close call between this trip or being on jock ramps all season and not having to sit at squadron tables.) One of the distinguishing memories of … Read more
Letter sent to parents advising of a SNAFU (“slippage”) with the new reporting system for grades. No further editorial comment.
Contributed by Steve Stockdale, CS-39 Download or open the Parents Handbook as a PDF. Contents
To Parents from the AOC, Captain Robert C. Miller, CS-31. Also attached (I believe) was a two-page attachment with local Parents Clubs around the country.
This is the blurb the Academy sent to local newspapers. Note that it refers to “more than 1,300 freshmen.” We started with 1,505 according to the Superintendent’s Letter to Parents on 25 July. I wonder if this means there were almost 200 who didn’t complete BCT.
21 August 1972, Colorado Springs Sun … And just for grins, here’s Page 2 on the back:
Contributed by Steve Stockdale, CS-39. This had to have been printed pretty early in our doolie season since it looks like we had more players than they had jersey numbers. By my count, there are 119 names here (1 duplicated) … or 7.8% of the 1,505 of us who started Basic Cadet Training together. And … Read more
Attached to the Superintendent’s letter to parents in July 1972 was this profile of the new incoming class.
Contributed by Steve Stockdale, CS-39 Two weeks into BCT, Academy Superintendent General Clark sent his first of periodic letters to the Spirit of ’76 parents. Maybe the most interesting part of the mailing wasn’t the letter itself but the one-page attachment, “Profile of the Class of 1976” (last page). The profile is also located here … Read more