Graduation speakers for the academies?

afa81
Sat, 13 May 2006 10:57:01 +0000

The speakers aren’t asked until that year of graduation. The Prez. is suppose to rotate evenly through the academies, in reality he doesn’t. Navy and WP are closer to DC so they get him quite a lot.

To be honest the day is about your cadet and the family and friends, if the president comes they cut down on the number of ticket so many don’t get to come and watch. Each cadet at AF only got 3 tickets. Who do you leave at home grandma, grandpa, your 2 other kids. In 1992 or 93, the president was the speaker and a cadet from a small town in the mid-west had his entire town coming by bus to watch him graduate. We and many of the Professors gave up our tickets to graduation because the numbers was so limited.

I had to laugh because there was a hail storm and tornado warning that day. Thought that the secret service had more to worry about from the weather than the people in the stands.