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Fall 2012 O-Week begins on August 19. Please read the important message below for details. The Cadets will also attend one of the New Student Conferences prior to O-Week. If you have any questions after reading information below, please call the Cadet Training Officer, Maj Wayne Bertrand (Ret), at 409-741-4380. If you are admitted to TAMUG, and also admitted to join the Texas Maritime Academy, you will need:

• O-Week Checklist and Grooming Standards

• Male Uniform Order Guide

• Male Uniform Order Sheet

• Female Uniform Order Guide

• Female Uniform Order Sheet

• Physical Fitness Info for O-Week

• Corps Bookstore Pack

IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM COL. MALLAHAN concerning O-Week:

Check-In at the Sea Aggie Center between 1200 hrs through 1400 hrs. on 19 August.  We will have approximately 160 Cadets, so you all don’t have to arrive at 1200 hrs.  There will be drinks and snacks available, but no lunch, so feel free to have lunch in Galveston before you report to check-in.  At the Sea Aggie Center, we will collect any documents you did not send us earlier, such as passport, birth certificate, TWIC Card, etc. (We will make copies and give you back the originals for your safe keeping).

After you have checked-in, it’s time to head to the Housing office and fill out their paperwork, pick up a key and move out to the Corps Resident Halls to drop off suitcases and room furnishings. You are welcome to bring almost anything except TVs and computer games. Bear in mind that the less stuff they bring the easier it is to keep their rooms clean and pass the weekly inspections. As a minimum you should bring, a desk lamp, laundry supplies, personal hygiene supplies, school supplies, civilian clothes for the evenings and weekends, and bed linens. That’s all they really need, everything else they can purchase on the island or live without it. All freshmen are required to purchase a meal plan and eat in the cafeteria their first year. This is so you know they are getting plenty to eat and it is the social center here on campus.

Computers – Cadets can use the school’s computers if they don’t bring their own. If you are going to purchase or bring a computer for your Cadet, I recommend a laptop, which is very popular with all students and it doesn’t take up much space in the Residence Hall rooms. However, please make sure there are no games on their computer and we don’t want them playing internet games on the weekend or to relax during the week. There isn’t enough time in the day for them to waste with computer games!

After they have set up their rooms, it’s time for haircuts and receiving their uniforms and meeting other cadets. For this reason, we will have a briefing for all parents at 1:30 and 3:00 that afternoon in the CLB (classroom, lab, building), which is next building as you walk past the flag pole from the Sea Aggie Center or the Housing Office. If you need to get back on the road, you may miss the briefing. However, if you would like to know what to expect for the first year and what your Cadet will be doing, you will want to attend this briefing followed by Q&A with the Commandant.

We will provide dinner for your Cadet and we do ask all parents to leave after their briefing, so we can begin orienting your Cadet to Corps life. At the end of O Week, so we encourage all parents to come back on Friday (23 Aug) around 1100 hrs to watch the O WEEK Pass in Review, on the main drill field. After the Pass in Review, all Cadets (except the NROTC Cadets) will be released until Sunday night, 25 August at 1800 hrs, when Call To Quarters begins, the night before the first day of classes. NROTC Cadets will be released later that afternoon after they complete some required testing.

 Very Respectfully,
RICHARD A. MALLAHAN '71
Colonel, USAF (Ret)
Commandant & Chief of Staff

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