School Senior Pictures

[spacecommand]

Every school handles it differently, so it depends on the school.

Way back when (ok not that long ago), all the males wore a fake tuxedo (tuxedo top) and the females wore a dress and that was the picture that appeared in the yearbook, everyone with a tuxedo or dress.  Then optionally we could take a second photo with "real" clothes, so some students wore their Letterman, some wore their regular school stuff, others didn't take this photo at all (because it cost more and was optional), this second photograph was available for sale to the student but was not published in the yearbook.

As a senior member, I've had a CAP portrait taken before as well.

[The CyBorg is destroyed]

According to MapQuest, I live 259.53 miles from the city where I grew up and went to high school.  I haven't been back there in almost a decade and have no plans to ever return.

High school was like walking through fire for me.  I was useless, unnecessary and a waste of space.  This video captures it perfectly.

Subdivisions - Rush (Official Video)

I eventually got slung out...but I got a GED and subsequently a degree in Computer Information Systems with a 3.735 GPA.

I wish I would have known about the CAP Cadets back then.  I would have eaten it up, especially since I had fantasies of going to the AF Academy, which of course didn't happen.

Boy Scouts in my area were a joke (even though I made it to Life Scout) and as full of bullies as school (of course, this was the late '70s/early '80s).  CAP would have given me something much, much more tangible to focus on.  That is a big reason why I am in CAP today...to do a bit to help young people have what I didn't have.

I would have been proud to have my yearbook picture taken in CAP blues, and that's saying something considering I absolutely loathe having my picture taken!

[Stonewall]

Same experience DV...

In HS I was barely known as I hung out with my CAP crowd outside of school since we were split up among several different schools.  By no means was I a cool kid and often got picked on for being the "GI Joe" type.

Fast foward to the 10 year reunion (where my hottie wife and I met back up) where I had served 4 years in the Army, deployed to Bosnia, had 4 years of college under my belt, and was working a secret squirrel type gig for the US Government.

By the 20 year reunion I had gone back into the military (Air Guard), finished my tour with the secret squirrel gig and gone on to be an international gun toter protecting 2 different presidential appointees in more than 50 countries and now (and at the time of the 20 year reunion) am the Director of Security at a high end resort.

Meanwhile, at both reunions, our "best and brightest, and badass" kids back from "the day" (a Wednesday, BTW), were divorced, frumpy, out of shape, jobless, had yet to step foot out of the city let alone the country, and were hanging out with the same old friends from HS.

[RogueLeader]

Is he throwing a football, or grenade?

[Phil Hirons, Jr.]

I remember when 6 stripes was all you got, being the 1st Sgt with my little diamond and chrome whistle.  Then pinning on C/ Warrant Officer -or- Cadet/ Flight Officer depending on how old school you Sq was and suddenly being treated like an illiterate moron!

As far as the initial question, I say wear them. That would look good, respectful. As a parent if Im paying for my kid to be in CAP hes IS wearing his blues for senior pictures. Yeah Yeah I know.... total disregard for regs! OH NO!

My 10 yr reunion had guys wearing their lettermans jackets, 75lbs over weight, bald telling loud annoying stories about some pass they caught in a game nobody remembers.  My 20yr is in 8 months.  Once in a while when I go back to visit my parents I run into a guy I know who still wears his lettermans jacket almost 20yrs later.

I did the 6 stripes to 1 gold dot (c/WO) change. The pictogram ribbons bring back some memories.

I did the HS reunion thing a few times. Remember a HS reunion is only a bunch of people associated by zip code and year of birth.

[Devil Doc]

I was in NJROTC for 2 years, and AJROTC for 2 years, so I took lots of School Photos in Uniform
I had an stack on my Uniform and medals galor, I would mount the medals so when I walk they would clank against each other. I guess JROTC was my CAP. "To Motivate Young People to Be Better Citizens"

[a2capt]

High school was like walking through fire for me.  I was useless, unnecessary and a waste of space.  ... I eventually got slung out...but I got a GED and subsequently a degree in Computer Information Systems with a 3.735 GPA.

I wish I would have known about the CAP Cadets back then. I would have eaten it up, especially since I had fantasies of going to the AF Academy, which of course didn't happen.

Boy Scouts in my area were a joke (even though I made it to Life Scout) and as full of bullies as school (of course, this was the late '70s/early '80s).  CAP would have given me something much, much more tangible to focus on.  That is a big reason why I am in CAP today...to do a bit to help young people have what I didn't have.

I would have been proud to have my yearbook picture taken in CAP blues, and that's saying something considering I absolutely loathe having my picture taken!

Heh.. ya know, minor detail differences aside, substitute AFA for Shuttle Pilot, whch the AFA was one such avenue to get to it..  and I think you described the Mid-80's just perfect for me.  Except I didn't get a degree because at the time, the IT world we know of now was evolving from the Big Iron dominated left overs with roots in the 1960's. 

..and the unit I'm in now was right there where it is now, all the time. So. Wish. I. Knew. Even had to pass by it on a bus to go to the Boy Scouts meeting on base, that sucked. On Tuesday nights, no less.

As for my 10 year, its the only one I ever got closest to. Since I didn't walk with the class, I didn't feel right going, and the organizers didn't invite me anyway. From what a friend told me, who was there .. yeah. the jocks and popular people, no so anymore ;-)  As for my comment about getting closest to it, I was 1000 AGL overhead, circling and yelling out the window of a Citabria. I wanted to fly by and toss confetti .. but the FAA wouldn't like it

He said he saw me, maybe heard me in quips. I was known for having an ultra loud yell.
Still do.. As for would have I had done my Senior photo in Blues? You bet. One guy had just gotten Eagle Scout and that was his  photo. I think CAP Blues look so much better than that.

[Майор Хаткевич]

I'm actually excited for 2017/2018 just to see if they will send me an invite to the '07 reunion (when I graduated) or the '08 reunion (when I was supposed to graduate), or neither.

Should be fun.

[Garibaldi]

I'm actually excited for 2017/2018 just to see if they will send me an invite to the '07 reunion (when I graduated) or the '08 reunion (when I was supposed to graduate), or neither.

Should be fun.

Just in time for the AF and CAP to deny us ABUs again!

[Devil Doc]

In 2015,I will not be going to my 10 year reunion. Screw Um. They didnt care about me then so why now? Is it because I did something with myself? Im not living my high school years over and over? lol. I had an Horrible high school experience 

[RogueLeader]

There is maybe only a couple people from my high school reunion that I would like to see.  Other than that. .  .

[Devil Doc]

Lets start an CT Reunion?

[a2capt]

That would imply that we'd have been "unioned" in the first place ... many have not ever been

Photos in Blues wouldn't be out of the norm then, though. ...