Shotgun announced

"We trained hard---but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization." Petronius Arbiter, 66 AD

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
 
"We trained hard---but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization." Petronius Arbiter, 66 AD

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
 
"We trained hard---but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization." Petronius Arbiter, 66 AD
Sounds like my job.
 
"We trained hard---but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization." Petronius Arbiter, 66 AD
Sounds like my job.

Getting them ready for the fleet...one "shotgun" at a time....:)
 
Some of the above about siblings gave me the nerve to ask about boyfriends and girlfriends.... isn't the fraternization policy that you can't date within your own company?

Yes. If it gets serious for two in-company star-crossed ones, and to avoid slithering around under the radar, usually one of the pair asks to "love chit" out of the company to another. Plebes can only date other plebes, not in same company. If they are moving in a batch, and land as new youngsters in new company, they can then date other classes, except plebes, and not others in their new company.

If a plebe from Origin Company and upperclass from Destination Company have been gazing moon-eyed at each other from afar, and then find themselves in same company, USNA is not going to worry about it. They will figure out a path, preferably a good one, and it's their responsibility to know the Regs. [emoji16]



Wow...times have changed...
 
Wow...times have changed...

As I am a "non-grad," the whole "love chit" and "hate chit" (yes, there are those too), along with "All buildings are halls, but not all halls are buildings" (I couldn't find Smoke Hall on a map my first week), flummoxed me when I arrived for duty back in the late 90's. It was like falling down a rabbit hole in Wonderland. My DH, who is "a grad," continues to watch various changes with fascination. But that's the way of it... George Bancroft no doubt routinely spins in his grave...
 
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