Silver Weekend
From USAFA Folklore
A Silver Weekend is a weekend during which there is scheduled training, usually including some type of training Friday afternoon and night, and training Saturday morning until the early afternoon. Many Silver Weekends include a parade or SAMI, and a few times a year there will be a Triple Threat. There is usually at least one Silver Weekend per month; however, some semesters have had so many that there were only four blue weekends all semester.
Intercollegiate athletes, Soaring IPs, Wings of Blue and a few other groups are routinely exempted from all but one Silver Weekend, through Scheduling Committee Action. However, if the training includes a room inspection, their rooms are still required to meet standards even in their absence.
Historically, cadets have often had training on Saturdays, referred to as Saturday Morning Training, but the term "Silver Weekend" has only come into use relatively recently (when?). Early in the history of the Academy, military training on Saturdays was the norm, rather than only on "special saturdays". During some points in the Academy's history a "training weekend" was specifically focused on more intense fourth class training.
