re: Did you graduate from the University

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No, that practice got banned before my time. New Army/hell and all that jazz.

Like I said, Corps as a whole continues to get more and more lax. My Corps experience was no doubt downright easy compared to yours and my dad's, but even mine looks hard now compared to the current iteration. Oh well.

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Actually it would have shocked me if you'd said yes, you did that. I can't see how you can instruct freshmen to direct 55 gallons of water to a guy's nuts from the 3rd floor if there are women involved . And then you have the very real problem of - what if the target is a woman? I don't think I could have participated in that.

Some of the other stuff needed to go away as well. When I was there beating the butts of freshmen with axe handles was somehow normal, and that always seemed insane to me. I did what I could to nix that in our company when I was a senior, but it still went on. I trust that one is a distant memory. At least I hope it is.

I just hope they're doing endless pushups. If they are, then all's good.

To me, women in the Corps changed everything. I'm still trying to figure out if they changed it for the better. Right now I think they did, but I'm old and soft.

BTW the current Corps Commandant General Joe Ramirez is a classmate. If you have a gripe let me know and I'll send him a BQ joke.