BCT Days 2 & 3 (26th and 27th)

Saturday:

According to WebGuy, the basics spent most of the day on Saturday being instructed on exactly where to put each and every item in their rooms. This is made easier since the basics are basically not allowed to have anything except what they've been issued!

In the morning, the basics were briefed by the USAFA superintendent. They evidently "ran-marched" (my term) to get there...I don't know why! Anyway, WebGuy posted some pictures of that and we found a couple of Nathan :) I think that they had to call something out as they curved, or something like that. Nathan is right behind the girl in this picture.

Nathan's squadron (Aggressors) also did some marching practice. Here is a link to a video of that: http://usafawebguy.com/blog/flight-aggressors-marching-en-masse. Nathan is in this video...but the only place I've successfully spotted him is right at the very end. When the cadets turn the last time and are marching off screen, he is in the front row right beside the girl with the blonde hair. I must say that I think these basics are doing a pretty good job at marching considering the fact that most of them are just learning how to do it! There were also some pictures from the same time as the video, and here is one with Nathan:

He's a little hard to see in this one, sorry. But he's the one in the back row, right below the white pillar thing of the building. He has a really solemn look on his face, but that's because he's marching and that's just how he marches!

We found one more picture of Nathan from Saturday....when he was sitting in the "cafeteria" at lunch time:

Most of the pictures seem to show the basics with their eyes closed, so we think they just had to keep their eyes down during most of the meal. Meals at USAFA are very strict affairs during BCT.

Sunday:

Today, according to WebGuy, the basics spent most of the day doing testing. They had tests in Math, Computer Science, and Chemistry. I don't know if Nathan took all those tests or not, but I would assume so. These tests are placement tests, to figure out what level of classes the students will go into. So there weren't any pictures from today, at least not yet. There were 3 hours scheduled for the math test, two hours for each of the other tests.

UPDATE: Nathan told us in his letter (received Thursday the 1st) that he took the Calculus 1 & 2 tests, and the computer science one.