To everyone that has read my few prior posts,

I am sorry it has been so long since my last post.

Not much has happened though. We are still plebes squaring corners and doing the plebe thing. A lot of our third class friends are about to leave for sea again but more are coming back for third trimester. We are all waiting in anticipation for recognition.

I have lost another friend from my section. He had realized that he wanted to be an enlisted navy SEAL and not an officer. I respect him for this and not giving up. He has promised to come back for our graduation.

I was prompted to come back and put up a new post when a fellow classmates blog got sent out to the class of 2013. This person is basically alone in his company due to what he has written. His best friends have left him. I feel bad for this individual. This hate for him has spread to the whole class.

Part of what made this happen was a general attitude. He is one of the oldest plebes at the age of 21. He has had real life experience. Yet that does not pardon an attitude that is a problem in this school just as rampant as immaturity.

This individual believes that because of his prior experience he is better than everyone else and knows best. He is hesitant to help his section mates and share his hard work with people who struggle. His attitude has alienated him from the class of 2013. This attitude is not his alone. It is the attitude of a man who will do anything to be the best. Yes the world is full of these people but in an environment where you are so dependent on others this attitude can only make you alone. People get fed up with it.

Thanks for reading I will post up about the beginning of next trimester in a week when I get back from Florida.

long time since last post

To everyone that has read my few prior posts,

I am sorry it has been so long since my last post.

Not much has happened though. We are still plebes squaring corners and doing the plebe thing. A lot of our third class friends are about to leave for sea again but more are coming back for third trimester. We are all waiting in anticipation for recognition.

I have lost another friend from my section. He had realized that he wanted to be an enlisted navy SEAL and not an officer. I respect him for this and not giving up. He has promised to come back for our graduation.

I was prompted to come back and put up a new post when a fellow classmates blog got sent out to the class of 2013. This person is basically alone in his company due to what he has written. His best friends have left him. I feel bad for this individual. This hate for him has spread to the whole class.

Part of what made this happen was a general attitude. He is one of the oldest plebes at the age of 21. He has had real life experience. Yet that does not pardon an attitude that is a problem in this school just as rampant as immaturity.

This individual believes that because of his prior experience he is better than everyone else and knows best. He is hesitant to help his section mates and share his hard work with people who struggle. His attitude has alienated him from the class of 2013. This attitude is not his alone. It is the attitude of a man who will do anything to be the best. Yes the world is full of these people but in an environment where you are so dependent on others this attitude can only make you alone. People get fed up with it.

Thanks for reading I will post up about the beginning of next trimester in a week when I get back from Florida.

Janitorial Duties

As plebe you are basically an unpaid janitor. it is your job to keep the barracks nice and clean. with this job come a lot of tension between you and you piers sometimes as the battle for cleaning supplies commences.

One thing you have to deal with are the upperclassmen not putting the cleaning supplies back in the slop sink after using them.

another is the mystery of the missing brooms. other decks will steal your brooms if you do not make sure that it is marked with your company and deck. the brooms that are supplied are with out a doubt the worst brooms i have ever used.

If you do come here i recomend bringing a broom with synthetic bristles. It will be the best investment all of plebe year and keep a lot of feuds away. so long as you do not let it get to far.

As Cleaning goes there are set cleaning stations that every plebe will eventually do. they are

Heads

Slop sink

Ladderwells

Decks

Showers

Reg Row

Laundry Room

Trash and gear.

I think Heads, Showers Decks and Ladder wells are pretty self explanatory.

Slop Sink- Is the cleaning station in charge of the cleaning supplies

Trash and gear- empties all the trash cans and takes the large trash can to the dumpster.

Reg Row- Plebes clean the M/n Officers cleaning stations

and laundry room. Plebes clean the laundry room.

now cleaning is not that bad. when you do cleaning stations you can talk in the halls, you do not need to square and you can relax to almost human standards.

Overall Cleaning is not that bad its just a plebe job that one must do on a daily basis.

If you come here please do not be that guy who leaves his roommate cleaning and goes back to his room to go on Facebook. I guarantee that at 640 in the morning none of your friends are awake and on facebook to talk to you.

these are just my thoughts.

Indoc The Fury of I-DAY

Indoc is the first two weeks of your life at Kings Point. During these two weeks you are taught about the school its principles and how to become a military person. Indoc can be explained to an outsider of the military as KP Boot camp.

The first day of Indoc is a blur. you get to KP walk through the gate and wait on line to leave whoever came to say good by to you. you see all these people dressed in summer whites and have no idea who they are. if you talk to one of them they will be extremely well mannered and polite this is because you are not their property yet. You have not entered Zero Deck or gone into O'Hara hall. Once you enter O'Hara everything changes you go from station to station handing in papers filling out forms showing ID hand in more forms it is a rush of unfamiliar faces. then you get to the far side of the gym. you learn the basics of facing movements in a 1 minute crash course. then they send you on your way to zero deck. Funny story happened here. After this you are supposed to exit O'Hara through a side entrance down some stairs. I saw two sets of stairs in my confused hurry and chose the wrong set. it only took me a few moments to realize my mistake but looking back at it its hilarious.

Now out of O'Hara you sprint across a road and down into Zero Deck. This is the real start of your journey in Kings Point.

You enter Zero deck with nothing but the clothes in your back you left your bags in O'Hara which will soon seem a worlds away. you follow a path and are directed by these people in red shirts. as one comes into view you have to greet them. in this furry you are getting fitted for shoes, given supplies a bag, backpack, some pants socks a bathrobe. everything you did not bring with you to Indoc. then you check out. After this process which seems to go on forever you come to the barbershop. and get your hair trimmed down to a zero. once you are done with this process you surface up the ladder well leading to Delano and exit to where you find a sign with your company number. this will be your first encounter with a Drill Instructor. they make you run through the basic facing movements again and again until they are certain that you have them down. all the while taking their saved anger at the KP System and take it out on you. at this point you have to think what did i get my self into. once the DI leads you to your company you really have begone your journey.

Now this is just my view on I-Day from my personal experiences yes i left a lot out because if you do decide to come to KP this is one of those things you will need to experience on your own.

January 19, 2010

I am not really good at this sort of thing but here it goes.
Today I realized the hardest thing about plebe year it’s not the academics it’s not all the bullshit rules. It’s watching your friends resign themselves after committing to much time to come to this academy. This week one of my friends is leaving to go back to Nevada where he said if he goes home he will end up in the mines, for the rest of his life. This place was an escape. This kid knew he was having trouble sought help and was not happy with his major choice at the end of the first Trimester. Within a week of classes it was too late for him to switch to the deck track. After trying to get himself set back he gave up hope.
This is not even the most disturbing to me. My roommate from first trimester also just simply gave up. We have gone through almost half of plebe life together. We shared a lot of memories and were each other’s support systems. I tried my best to help him with Academics this tri but his mind was elsewhere. He was in a club that took up a lot of his time. I stayed up till 12 one night studying for a test and I had given him all the help I can but when he got to the test he simply gave up. On the second test that day he had given up wrote his name and handed the test back. He had said it himself that all he wants is to be in the military and that was his reason for being here and going through all this shit. His dad is a military man and raised him to become one. When he leaves he will be going to a college in Texas and I hope he gets into ROTC. But it was so difficult for me to see him give up.
Every person has one thing or another that is hard. I study hard for all of my classes but the knowledge comes relatively easy. When there is a test in a subject I am worried about I will study for it starting a week in advance. I have developed study habits here that I would n ever of gotten if I went to a normal school. I am involved in a varsity sport but I am by no means gliding through this place. It makes it just that much harder to face coming back here after a break when your friends are gone.