Forum: Future F-16 crew

Hey Guys-
I'm a girl and got into summer seminar. Does any one know how the girls are treated there? Do we get treated better or worse just because were girls or just get treated like all the other guys ( I hope so!)?

I'm really nervous about going but I'm so excited because the Academy is my #1 choice.

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You will be treated slightly differently than the males (different dorms, different cadre), but you will be with other females. The academics will be exactly the same regardless of gender. When I went through, it was about 75% Male, and the ladies were treated just like everyone else. Good luck with the Academy.

I was there last summer and I didn't think they were treated all too different. They had their rooms in a different part of the Vandenburg Hall, but that was it. They were free to go into the guys section and go into their rooms provided the doors stayed open. As for guns2003 say they had different cadre, thats wrong. They had the same cadre as everyone else. In fact, my element leader was female and there was a female in my element. Things aren't different at all for females.

This thread name sure is deceiving... "Girls at Summer Seminar". Sounds kind of ... (you fill in the blank).

Hey Steck! I'm going to summer seminar this summer also! I'm not gonna lie... I'm really nervous about it! What session are you attending?

Delta wrote:

Things aren't different at all for females.

Doubt it. They don't have things set up like "the girls will do this and the guys will do this", and they won't have any kind of official policy that says guys and girls get treated different, but anyone that thinks a female in the military gets treated exactly the same is sadly mistaken. Women have made great strides in the military (and I think they need to go further!), but it is still a 'mans world'. There are plenty out there who will overlook women for advancement and special opportunities, and plenty others who will see breasts coming and give their owner whatever they want. And god forbid someone genuinly harrasses a woman and she files a complaint- even if she is right and the guy was wrong, she'll be instantly 'blackballed' among alot of people.

Point being, I think it is great that women are in the military, and I think more things need to be opened up to them. Women today can go all the way to the top, just like any man, if the right opportunities come up and they take advantage of what they know and can learn. Unfortunatly many women have to work alot harder to get the same accolades as a man, but that is something that exists in almost any work enviornment. Steck, I hope you make it to the academy, and that you kick a$$!!! There are few things I love more than a woman running circles around some smug-a$$ guy who thinks he can do better, just cause he's a man; guys like that deserve to be put in their place. Work hard and stay focused, show 'em all how good you can do, and that your plenty good to earn your rewards from your work and not your genetics.

I know they don't get treated exactly the same, but I was just saying that at the AFA Summer Seminar things were pretty much the same for males and females, I wasn't talking about the military outside of that.

<a href="f-16_news_article1400.html">First female Thunderbird pilot</a> has been named... Mudhen gal out of Lakenheath. Believe she's a Zoo grad ('96).