{"id":3953,"date":"2010-02-23T00:35:32","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T08:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=3953"},"modified":"2010-02-21T22:10:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T06:10:05","slug":"usafa-cadets-get-traditional-extreme-makeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/23\/usafa-cadets-get-traditional-extreme-makeover\/","title":{"rendered":"USAFA Cadets Get Traditional &#8220;Extreme Makeover&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A local military paper documents the long-running <a href=\"http:\/\/csmng.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/19\/seniors-get-duty-stations-%e2%80%98extreme-makeovers%e2%80%99-for-100s-night\/\">US Air Force Academy tradition of &#8220;100s Night,&#8221;<\/a> which marks 100 calendar days until the senior class (&#8220;Firsties&#8221;) graduate.\u00a0 While the Firsties are out at an official dinner and celebration, the freshman\u00a0cadets (four degrees) transform their rooms into a variety of new creations.\u00a0 Some are simple, others complex; some are light-hearted, others are devilishly creative.<\/p>\n<p>The article lists a variety of examples, including filling rooms with balloons (balloons filled with glitter, in one case), taking all the furniture out and setting up the room in another location (a stairwell), or filling a room with a\u00a0cement pond (no word on Koi).\u00a0 Someone&#8217;s bed almost always ends up on the Terrazzo (the cadet common quad), and often one is placed in the middle of the cadet football field.<\/p>\n<p>Military cadets are known to &#8220;count down&#8221; to major milestones, like the number of days to recognition for the fourth class cadets (even many lower class cadets know how many <em>days<\/em>\u00a0they have\u00a0until\u00a0graduation).\u00a0 This is just one traditional way in which lower class cadets throw off their fetters and have fun at the expense of their upperclassmen.\u00a0 The Firsties?\u00a0 For the most part, they don&#8217;t mind.\u00a0 After all, they&#8217;ve only got 100 days left&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local military paper documents the long-running US Air Force Academy tradition of &#8220;100s Night,&#8221; which marks 100 calendar days until the senior class (&#8220;Firsties&#8221;) graduate.\u00a0 While the Firsties are out at an official dinner and celebration, the freshman\u00a0cadets (four degrees) transform their rooms into a variety of new creations.\u00a0 Some are simple, others complex; some are light-hearted, others are [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2,40,65],"class_list":["post-3953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-academies","tag-military","tag-tradition","tag-usafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}