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Posted on 8/14/13 at 11:37 pm to finestfirst79
Posted on 8/14/13 at 11:37 pm to finestfirst79
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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.
Well, as a young single man, let me say I wasn't exactly complaining about being in a coed outfit and having hot females next door to me Let's just say I grew adept at learning the fraternization workarounds (nothing new under the sun, I know ). Shoot, my outfit's CO was a female my freshman and sophomore years. You either learned to deal with it or shut the hell up. I liked the environment.
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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.
Bring back the slapboards in the hallways, dammit!
During my time, the Corps Commandant was General John Van Alstyne (great guy, IMO), and for a brief while, Lt. Col Gardner (who was my dad's pisshead back in the day in Gator 2).
Posted on 8/15/13 at 12:06 am to TbirdSpur2010
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Well, as a young single man, let me say I wasn't exactly complaining about being in a coed outfit and having hot females next door to me Let's just say I grew adept at learning the fraternization workarounds (nothing new under the sun, I know ). Shoot, my outfit's CO was a female my freshman and sophomore years. You either learned to deal with it or shut the hell up. I liked the environment.
From the old fart's perspective I don't understand how this worked. How did every female living within a mostly-male company not end up pregnant, for example? But that's probably just me being an old fart. In my time, women had just been allowed into the Corps and they had a separate company isolated to their own dorm. As a freshman it was my sworn duty (according to some warped juniors) to make their lives miserable. W-1 puts up a spirit sign for a football game? That sucker has to be burned before Friday. Which I and a buddy did, as was our duty. Our other duty was "No matter what, don't ever get caught. Run." We ran a lot. Not something I'm particularly proud of... but we were good runners, and were never caught. I credit HS football line coach.
This post was edited on 8/15/13 at 12:25 am
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