re: Is A&M a Cult?

I have seen incredible levels of stupidity on this board. Sheer madness in their breadth of inaneness. Congratulations, in just two short posts you have topped all of them.

Do you understand LSU also has a ROTC program but because they are not a SMC they do not get to parade them around like soldiers.

That is the difference between a SMC and a MC.

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Those are College Students not members of any military branch.

By you defending it kinda of pulls you out of your cover

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Let me give you some information before you completely implode based on your heinous stupidity:

There's only one person on this board who has more experience in the matter of what is required to serve, who can or cannot serve, and at what point and individual is officially affiliated with the military than I do.

That individual is Wolfhound45, a Post-Brigade Command Colonel.

Then why are you claiming they are apart of the military...

Your big game against your top rival Texas Texh is in and you’re here worried about Aggie

Not according to the Department of Defense.....

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Not according to the Department of Defense.....

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Actually, yes, according to the Department of Defense, whose DD Form I referenced.

You are falling into the trap of assuming that any of us are claiming that the entire Corps of Cadets are affiliated with the military. In doing so, you are perpetuating an even bigger fallacy in saying that no one wearing an A&M cadet uniform is affiliated with the military while in that uniform.

According to your reasoning, the DD Form 4/1 I signed in August of 1998 that affiliated me with the Army as an O-zero (for lack of a better term), put me on an ROTC scholarship, and provided me with a monthly stipend until I commissioned, to include 5 weeks of TDY at Fort Lewis in June and July of 1999 didn't affiliate me with the military in any way, shape or form until I commissioned in May of 2000 and went to OBC a month later.

The same form that I am required to present as part of my retirement packet?

The same form that each of my DEP (Delayed Entry Program) Soldiers signed before they shipped off to basic training when the Recruiters under my Command put them in the Army from 2007-2009?

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DD Form 4/1 are enlistment papers.

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Of course they are.

Every cadet, whether at a military academy or in ROTC is required to sign one prior to their commissioning.

Are you saying that students at West Point are not part of the military?

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A HS ROTC also has DEP.

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You're confusing that with a CIHS enlistment, in which someone enlists their junior year into a Reserve Unit, ships to basic training between their junior and senior year, and ships to AIT after graduation.

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I believe Military Academics fall under USMJ unlike SMC and MC.

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Once again, a Senior Military College as a whole is only affiliated with the military as pertains to the specific portions of Title 10.

CADETS WITHIN A SENIOR MILITARY COLLEGE WHO ARE CONTRACTED UNDER ROTC absolutely fall under UCMJ. The Professor of Military Science at each respective school as well as the Regional Battalion and Brigade Commanders hold UCMJ authority.

Both Wolfhound and I became affiliated with the military well before our commissioning upon signing our DD 4/1's.

Unlike a DEP, I was paid a monthly stipend prior to my arrival at OBC whereas none of my DEPs received a paycheck until they arrived at Basic.