Aren’t you being too harsh? I am pretty sure these cadets did not think about everything and they should be punished accordingly (walking tour if they still have those), but I doubt they intended to hurt the bird. No one is perfect. Better to learn the lesson now, not later as an officer.
Perhaps you were a model midshipman, but looking back I did some stupid things as a cadet and a junior officer.
He flipped someone the bird. Anything besides a coach having a talk with him is an overreaction.
I think that we parents all hope this and I think that we'd all be terrified if we ever actually did learn about all the things that our cadets think about!!
My husband’s pretty sure he would have gotten a Captain’s Mast for flipping someone off on tv even in the heat of the moment.
I can tell you my college coach at a civilian university would not have tolerated such behavior, especially flipping off or in any way disrespecting another coach. At a minimum it would have resulted in a suspension. But that’s for the AF coach to decide.After a chippy half of play during a rivalry football game? Pure BS.
This merits a conversation with a coach, nothing more. Tempers get high during sports, stuff like this happen. Anything else is an overreaction.
After a chippy half of play during a rivalry football game? Pure BS.
This merits a conversation with a coach, nothing more. Tempers get high during sports, stuff like this happen. Anything else is an overreaction.
Agree 100%. This was a very emotional game between rivals that became nasty as hard fought games sometimes do. I am from the other side of this (USMA) but as a long ago Division 1 athlete I have seen this and worse hundreds of times. Coaches have their own way of dealing with minor transgressions such as these in a way that will discourage them from happening again.My husband’s pretty sure he would have gotten a Captain’s Mast for flipping someone off on tv even in the heat of the moment.
After a chippy half of play during a rivalry football game? Pure BS.
This merits a conversation with a coach, nothing more. Tempers get high during sports, stuff like this happen. Anything else is an overreaction.
addressing such things as "breaking and entering" and other crimes committed during a spirit mission. Almost all spirit missions will, in some shape or form, involve a technical breaking of a rule or law and I think people need to take a step back and a deep breath.
This merits a conversation with a coach, nothing more. Tempers get high during sports, stuff like this happen. Anything else is an overreaction.
Perhaps you were a model midshipman, but looking back I did some stupid things as a cadet and a junior officer.
I don’t understand your double standard - youthful/overzealous mistake of a spirit mission gone wrong, expel the cadet vs on TV, forever recorded, a heat of moment, stuff like this happen counseling by the coach. I will be more understanding of personal fouls during the game as tempers get high, but when the game is not being played. Are cadets supposed to be comrades when the game is over?