The Real Academy (post zero week) (pick up day)
The Friday at the end of our first week was like finally reaching the end of a long race. After speaking to my classmates at the time, we came to the same opinion, that zero week was the slowest and dullest week of the academy. As you now know, during the first week the staff officers had minimal contact with the cadets to limit the amount of stress we were experiencing already...that was laughable and probably the reason why our class became so lackadaisical early on. Whenever we left the academy grounds, we were required to sign in and out. That way the Staff Office was able to keep accountability on all of us, considering there were two classes with our class being 150 cadets and the senior class being close to 100. The last class was waited on bated breath, craning necks checking on the clock behind us every chance we got or glancing down at our wrist watch. Every break we were given, a reprieve from the dry and long winded briefings. Unlike high school, we were not at the