<p>[Biographies</a> : BRIGADIER GENERAL DALE E. STOVALL](<a href=“http://www.af.mil/bios/bio.asp?bioID=7278]Biographies”>http://www.af.mil/bios/bio.asp?bioID=7278)</p>
<p>Preppie class of '63!</p>
<p>Alright, so as to the recruited athlete preps… yeah we have the same problem with them down here about military issues. Trust me, that is AFTER a year of training that you see them and there is a reason they come here.</p>
<p>As to the pay - sorry about <strong>complaining</strong> and moaning about that. I think that is a military wide thing that you will always find someone that has something they have to complain about, in our case (priors) it is especially painful since we do have such a large decrease in pay. The other preps actually DON’T make more than the cadets, just we don’t have the money pulled out so they see all of it. They do not get E1 pay if they make it sound like it.</p>
<p>As to the need of a fourth class year… I wouldn’t debate it but that goes into my belief in the difference of that year preparing us to be better cadets, not airman. My understanding of the fourth class year is that it instills a need to be a follower first, leader second, and it does a good job of that. My only <strong>complaining</strong> is that the system also tends to create leaders that don’t respect those beneath them. It was not unheard of in the units I have been assigned to that when a new LT came in we would take bets on their commissioning source - no one bothered with the academy grads. We ALL knew them; they made sure we knew them. <strong>plug</strong> Please don’t be that guy. I believe this to be a great leadership institution but please recognize that as much as the priors and preppies may be fish out of water on the Hill, so will a new LT be in the real AF. Be humble.</p>