Classic!From 2016
Changes like this make it so previous years can always say "We had the last REAL Plebe Summer!", but (even better) this year there won't be any photos of Plebes with wheeled carts for the West Pointers to point and snicker at....Plebes don’t have to carry or even wheel their issued gear from Alumni Hall to Bancroft. It’s being transported by trucks and then carried up on deck by the detail. Not sure why...
Youngsters do not feel like Youngsters until they see and smell sweaty plebes in white works. Then it’s all good.DS is there for a voluntary summer class (who does that???) and said this morning that it is weird but good to see Plebes in white works with dazed parents everywhere.
I told him to soak it all in, be grateful he finished his plebe year, and enjoy 16 weeks of math crammed into 4 (yikes).
No, they’ll say this: <smarmy voice> ohhh, you can’t carry your own stuff. I bet mommy had to carry your bat bag for you.Changes like this make it so previous years can always say "We had the last REAL Plebe Summer!", but (even better) this year there won't be any photos of Plebes with wheeled carts for the West Pointers to point and snicker at.
Wow... its seems like just yesterday when you joined this group...with a Candidate. Congrats and enjoy the best year at USNA !My newly-minted Firstie is back on The Yard to see I-Day from a completely different perspective, today.
There is just something about that combination of "white works sizing stuff," Annapolis heat & humidity that is utterly timeless. I took DH back there in summer 2009, mid-July. We walked by a company of plebes right next to Luce Hall taking off their white works blouse and trousers and folding them up in prep for sailing. It was like lurching 20 years (then!) back in time: I was standing on red beach in my stiff white works and dixie cup, sweating (of course), trying to read Reef Points, totally awash in that unique smell. I'm sure it happens to every grad and former plebe.Youngsters do not feel like Youngsters until they see and smell sweaty plebes in white works. Then it’s all good.
.So my DS reports tomorrow (Wednesday). We arrived on last night (Monday). Today we drove into DTA for lunch. As we waited for our table at Iron rooster we walked over to Gate 1 for pictures just in case we do not get to do so during drop off. My DS grew nervous as we approached the pedestrian entrance and refused to step into the courtyard. He said we dis not want to get sucked into the “vortex” and he said he will have four years inside the Yard. He relished his last few hours looking on outside in. For tomorrow it will be inside looking out.
That's kind of a head-scratcher. It's not like Big Navy is known for their infantry and drill chops, and nametag and cover seems to give enough of them a lot of trouble the first 3 weeks.I heard from a (not-so) little bird currently on leave in my basement that Plebes may have to carry their rifles wherever they go.
I got that same scuttlebutt from DD, who’s in very good position to know. There’s a deep desire among the Plebe Summer powers-that-be to instill discipline in this plebe class that was missing in last year’s (through no fault of their own, just victims of pandemic adjustments). Has less to do with infantry drill and more to do with the old “break them down to build them back up” approach.I heard from a (not-so) little bird currently on leave in my basement that Plebes may have to carry their rifles wherever they go.
Probably with fixed bayonets so they can repel unmasked boarders.I heard from a (not-so) little bird currently on leave in my basement that Plebes may have to carry their rifles wherever they go.
In his speech the new Dant said he is not much of a drill personNew Dant is a Marine.