<p>Thanks for the advice usafa21. It’s not that my parents want me to go or anything, choosing to talk to them about the academy was my decision, and would not disappoint them at all if I chose not to go or don’t get accepted. </p>
<p>I’ve read a webpage written by a class of '00 graduate from the Academy who mentioned a version of SERE training done at the academy, involving a week of survival training and an “escape from the upperclassmen” test at the end of it. I later read that this was “discontinued” in 2003 due to some issues with the program. Has this since been replaced by something similar? What about the other summer programs between years at the Academy that would have taken place while this student was at the school, like getting glider wings and finding the colored rocks hidden by the seniors? It seems a lot has changed at the Academy over a short period of time, I’d like to learn what has been the usual summer program for cadets over the last few summers?</p>