At one point I wanted to be a pilot but then you know the eyesight thing. Plebe summer is this six week indoctrination It is not boot camp, but it is a service academy equivalent of boot camp Your class is about 1200 incoming freshmen report in the middle of the summer July for about a six week In indoctrination into the military that occurs and ends before the academic year. At the end of my plebe or freshman year at the naval academy I was invited back to be the class leader and I did do that.