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The final word on PJOC 2003
 Greetings to all, It's been 36 hours since the decision was made to cancel all the PJOCs for 2003. Why the activities were cancelled is no longer the important issue but what we are going to do next is; and that is to press on. This cancellation has only increased the determination of the PJOC staff to use the additional time we now have to prepare a quality series of activities that will meet the current CAP standards while remaining the program that we Pararescuemen expect it to be for 2004 and beyond.
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It is not June!
 ... And we categorically deny that there is a CadetStuff.org. Those who continue to insist that there is such a web site will burn in hell and their spleens will be eaten by jackals. We will welcome them with bullets and shoes! ... Firstly, and I tell you true: do not believe the lies that there is a new Drummond Island: Declassified - The Hair. It is an illusion of those dogs. ... The infidel Major Steve Austen is nowhere near this web site, and we have trapped his second article about encampment in the old days in a quagmire from which it can never emerge except dead! Do not read "Up in the air, Junior Birdmen! With your noses to the ground!"! ... Do not believe in followership! We will insert bananas into their tailpipes and give them a bloody nose! Ignore "Ten Rules of Good Followership"! ... Many CadetStuffers have entered the Air Force Academy, our estimates are that none of them will come out alive unless they surrender to us quickly. They are completely surrounded now. Cadet JamesN is shrieking for mercy like a nine year-old girl. Read "A Tale of Two Teams" and hear his pleas. ... Cadet Christie Ducote is an example of the cowardly infidel dogs that scratch at our feet for scraps! She has written a contemptible article called "The Power of Documentation". Ignore her! We will slap this gangster girl on the face, and then when she flees, we will kick her backside! ... My feelings - as usual - are that these thieves will have their stomachs roasted in hell over fires stoked by mounds of paperwork in this month's link to the Guide to Effective Army Writing. ... When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfathers of CadetStuff were scratching around in caves. But that Dr. Drill has great thoughts. He is undeserved by those pig-dogs at CadetStuff! You should read his article and weep unashamedly. ...
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Spare a shekel for an old Ex-Leper?
No? Then how about sparing a NCSA article for CadetStuff.org? Yepper! It's that time again folks: let the begging begin! CadetStuff has had some great NCSA articles in the past and we'd like to continue this year. So, if you're going to AFSCFC or PJOC or NFAG-P or any of that other alphabet soup, how about working with us on an article? You don't have to be Ernie Hemingway, just jot down some notes or thoughts, take a couple pix and when it's over get in touch with our Submissions folks and tell them all about it. Before you know it, you'll be famous! Just wait until Biggus hears about this!
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Leadership ::
Ten Rules of Good Followership
 It occurs to me that there is a subject more relevant to the men and women of all ranks who populate our Air Force: how does one become a good follower? This is a responsibility no less important than that of leadership - in fact it enables good leadership - yet it is often ignored. Moreover, it is likely that all of us will be followers more often than we will be leaders. For my part, I have had 23 years of experience in taking orders, implementing policy guidance, and serving as an intermediate supervisor. Here are my Ten Rules of Good Followership gleaned from those years.
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"Up in the air, Junior Birdmen! With your noses to the ground!"
 The planes swung around for another pass, this time opening up with their 20mm Vulcan cannons. These werenÂ’t fake guns, either. They screamed overhead into the valley and the guns hosed a line of tracers that ate up a big white target sheet. They also dropped a small cloud of empty 20mm brass that tinkled across the ground like metal hailstones. They banked into the sun and then zoomed back toward the base.
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A Tale of Two Teams: Leadership and Teamwork at a Drill Meet
 One of the most valuable lessons I learned about leadership and teamwork since I have been at the Air Force Academy did not come from an experience in Combat Survival Training, it did not come from a Senior NCO or Officer mentor, and it did not come from the football fieldÂ… it came from a couple of high school kids in a JROTC program.
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Drummond Island:Declassified - The Hair
 There was one minor racial incident in 1982 that does stand out in my mind. It was completely insignificant to the school (it only involved me and one other person), but it had a dramatic effect on my leadership style from that point onward. On that day, I started to learn something fundamental about leadership that had little to do with race relations and everything to do with how to treat the people under my command.
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The Power of Documenting Everything
 Say that the problem has escalated and has still not been fixed by Cadet Smith. Now a Letter of Reprimand should be written and submitted. The Letter or Reprimand (LOR) should be written in the same form as the LOC (a formal memorandum) and state that whatever consequence for the continuance of the problem given in the LOC is now going to be implemented.
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Drill ::
I Love You Just The Way You Are...
I would just like to know, a visual explanation of performing a change step. There is a great controversy in that especially since all the Air Force Manuals and Air Force Junior ROTC leadership I text books fail to explain the exact movement properly. Or instant if there is a hop or a stop while this maneuver is being performed. C/TSgt Leo Cayanong
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Its Chock Full of Vitamins and Examples, too!
 The military really runs on paperwork. Lots and lots of paperwork. Since the advent of e-mail, however, it seems that the level of discourse in military writing has gone right into the proverbial field latrine. For those of you who are not skilled in the martial art of military penmanship, we offer up the US Army's "Guide to Effective Army Writing." Its loaded with example letters and other documents written in everybody's favorite style: military-ese.
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