Recent content by Keydet

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/report-27-cadets-injured-brawl-us-air-force-academy Not so sanctimonius now, eh?

Special student was a recognized anachronism in the early to mid 2000s-people knew what it meant but did not use it regularly. I have seen "non-com" used a lot the last few days. First time I have ever heard the term. Perhaps because only about half were commissioning during that time...

Ha--the GIM The "gimp" is a character from Pulp Fiction.

I could not disagree more with this statement. The admissions staff are looking at literally a few thousand applications and trying to decide who to give appointments to. At VMI, at least, they're looking at 2100 or so apps, rejecting 50% or so, and offering appointments to about 1000...

"Although the powers that be will surely argue against it, I'll stick my neck out and say the Bulldogs and Keydets should move down to NCAA Division-II." Why? Then our competitive basketball program that beat Kentucky a few years ago also has to go to D-II and complete irrelevance. Also...

Isn't it wonderful that prospective students in 2011 in America that want to include a period under military or quasi-military rule have so many different educational opportunities? We've got USMA, USNA, USCGA, and AFA where one can go and go ahead and start one's career in the U.S. Military...

ROTC has exactly zilch to do with the regimental system or the class system, or the honor system for that matter. It is separate and apart from both. ROTC has (or should have) exactly the same place in the hierarchy as an English class or biology lab. It is a class that all must take, and...

I have a thousand different things that I want to say to tell you that you are completely and totally off-base with this post (don't worry pennak, not trying to justify the alleged physical altercation aspect), but I promised someone I would not. Presumably if you were up there you are a parent...

Brunon The hill at the rifle range has indeed been replaced by a concrete wall. However, muddy hill breakouts took place for several years at McKethan Park before it was decided by Peay, over the protests of the then then-first class, that breakout hill would no longer take place.

Sprog-iirc, breakout took a one year hiatus from the mud hill (with '02breaking out at New Market in '99, right?) it then returned for '03-'07 (I think) before Peay decided he would stamp it out. I would 100% return to a breakout hill format. Breaking out on the stoops always struck me as...

Sure, that was just to show that this was not the first time this had happened. It probably won't be the last. Hopefully the whole place won't be completely neutered by the knee-jerk reactions of the helicopter crowd. And if we can now all agree that nothing of any real consequence took...

How do you think those got there? http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/1281239054064007535smQImb

Seeing how breakout was, for many, many, years (from whenever it quit being a guantlet until up until the early-'80s) an all-out, knock-down, drag-out, no holds barred, no fluid un-thrown fight from the courtyard, up the stairs, all the way to the 4th stoop, rats v. upperclassmen, and no one was...

Eh-I don't know. I only stumbled upon this and registered to post because I thought that some of what was being said was so outlandish that some kind of response was necessary to stem the tide of hand-wringing.

I agree, the parents of anyone that was injured should write their son/daughter an email or letter and counsel him or her to avoid voluntarily creating adversarial situations where they have a potential to be injured, and where physical retaliation is in all probability legally privileged. And...