Is there a detailer switch during PS?

I have said this before, when DS was at his meet and greet for his sport last year before Iday, Coach quoted Senator McCain as saying that (paraphrasing) ‘everything he needed to get through his time as a POW, he learned during his Plebe summer’. That’s what it’s all about. Getting them to the point of being able to cope, perform and survive during stressful and uncomfortable situations.

I’m thankful for their training....
 
My DS landed back in The Yard briefly before leaving for another training block. He said that they all looked like their hopes and dreams had been summarily crushed.
In other words, it's just another standard Plebe Summer. ;)
 
THParent said:
My DS landed back in The Yard briefly before leaving for another training block. He said that they all looked like their hopes and dreams had been summarily crushed.
In other words, it's just another standard Plebe Summer. ;)
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Thanks. Now I have to clean the coffee off my screen! LOL!
 
Dr. Strange Love said:
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What kind of deprivation, lack of ability or temperament, that would cause so much stress because of Detailer switch?
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Maybe I am going off on a tangent here, but, how many of these kids have done something dangerous, tumbled, and are alive to tell about it. I might sound cruel, but I think every kid should experience a ladder being kicked-out from underneath them. Most cases, you hit the ground, a little shaken up, but Ok. I can remember summers in HS and college working for my brother (a building contractor) framing, and doing other odd very strenuous jobs all day long. You get dog tired out in the heat. And all kinds of crazy things happen, like the times a ladder kick-out, or when I had to bail from walking a wall because my balance was all off. This usually happens when you are tired.

You feel alive when your pushed to your limits, or hit the ground from high up. Everyone should experience feeling alive.

Different times I suppose.
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The detailer switch is an unknown. Just when they are embracing the suck with their currrnt detailers and at least understanding what they currently have, change comes. And trust me, the first detailers hype it up! “They won’t be as easy on you as we were” I recall my Drill sergeant saying when we had a change. That is an example of the mental stress that they will face. This while they are already mentally and physically exhausted like they’ve never been before, stress comes easy.
The stress of Basic training, either in the Big services or an SA is by design. All the breaking down of the once civilian to building up of a future Cadet, Mid, Soldier, etc..is stressful. The challenges both mentally and physically are different for everyone who has experienced it, but everyone is challenged and pushed to a limit. Most will come out the other side and graduate, but some will not, and that is good.
That stress has now become manageable.....
 
shock-n-awe said:
The detailer switch is an unknown. Just when they are embracing the suck with their current detailers and at least understanding what they currently have, change comes. And trust me, the first detailers hype it up! “They won’t be as easy on you as we were” ...
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shock-n-awe said:
... The challenges both mentally and physically are different for everyone who has experienced it, but everyone is challenged and pushed to a limit. Most will come out the other side and graduate, but some will not, and that is good.
That stress has now become manageable.
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I got the picture now ... a lot of these kids are near that "Brick Wall" .... A CFA can only tell you so much, and very few of these kids have ever been this deprived and had to fix a "Hole in the Dike", exhausted and under pressure.

I bet a lot of these kids have never been pushed so hard that they can't get rid of the "Arm Pump", and nausea and throwing up becoming an issue ... something that an elite outdoor MX (Roczen is having issues with it right now) athlete has to deal with during these summer months. I love that sport.
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Thank goodness these plebes don't have to go up-and-over "Stairway to Heaven". I saw that obstacle on 2 occasions when I had the pleasure of being a parent chaperone for our DDs HS NRROTC summer trips to Parris Island. The kids weren't allowed to do it, but they were doing the other ones. Us parents were doing some of the obstacles, and Repel tower too. That's a cool place. Everyone should take a trip there to see it.
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PS is a time to learn to differentiate among discomfort, actual pain on a continuum and take-me-offline real injury.
 
The Stairway to Heaven is not just a Parris Island thing. Quantico has one too, minus the big red sign.
 
THParent said:
The Stairway to Heaven is not just a Parris Island thing. Quantico has one too, minus the big red sign.
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Hmmm ... Quantico is much closer to the Loudoun NJROTC program. Parris Island in SC is probably bigger, right?
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The 1st year that I chaperoned in the summer of 2015, one of my daughter's freshman classmates (another girl) came home with a broken leg. She did the trip the next year too. Those kids are gluttons for punishment.
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I would think that Celiac disease would put you out of the running in short order.
 
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