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- From: 0004244402@mcimail.com (Karl Dishaw)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: I want to be a space cadet
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- Date: 21 Jan 93 05:19:36 GMT
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- Fuzzy writes:
- >Most new guys
- >(military) who enter AFSPACECOM go to Undergraduate Space Training for a few
- >months to learn all about rockets and satellites and astrodynamics.
-
- Undergraduate Space Training is a 14-week combination of freshman
- physics and memorizing statistics on AFSPACECOM's assets, one of the
- worst wastes of $taxes I've seen. I had wonderful time partying in
- Denver but the only time I learned stuff was talking to instructors
- outside class (the only time they're allowed to mention stuff that can't
- fit into a multiple-choice test). TDY pay was nice too--you KNOW a
- lieutenant's overpaid when he sends money to his parents. :-)
-
-
- Karl
- sold my soul to Uncle Sam . . . now marked down for resale.
-