re: Aggy Board OT Discussion Thread

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Oh go frick yourself. And why do they want to increase membership to 3000? I blame all the millenial douchebags who think bigger is obviously better. But maybe I'm just a crank

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The size of the Corps was just around 2,000 when I was a cadet. Dorm 2 and all of Dorm 1 except the first floor were nonreg dorms.

Attrition was close to 25% amongst the fish classes but we still managed to put out quality leaders.

Also, from everything I'm reading, there was no feedback solicited from the cadet leadership or any cadets at all.

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And why do they want to increase membership to 3000? I blame all the millenial douchebags who think bigger is obviously better. But maybe I'm just a crank.

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Did millennials make the decision to push for 3,000 members? Sounds like you're just being a crank.

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and Joe '79 had nothing to do with it. 

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Let me get this straight, the Commandant is class of 1979 and everything is going to shite now that he's in charge?

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Let me get this straight, the Commandant is class of 1979 and everything is going to shite now that he's in charge?

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It depends on who you ask. His classmates really, really don't get his mixing males and females in the same company. TBird of course would disagree with that. And you, of course, don't need any more evidence of his incompetence than "'79".

The part of that proposal that rubs me wrong(est) is

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This training will be led by Cadet Training Officers (not cadets) for August and September, followed by major unit trainers until November.

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So everyone will be held to the lowest standard, and if you want your company to be better than everybody else, well that's just too damn bad. But it won't keep me up at night - the Corps went to Hell when they got rid of quadding.

And now for something completely different:

Dave Bliss resigns in disgrace, again

Just stop.

There are only three schools that aren't capped by federal law as to the number of officers they can commission in relation to the size of their uniformed student body. They are located in West Point, NY, Colorado Springs, CO, and Annapolis, MD.

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The fact that there are even cadets who aren't enlisted or going to serve in the military is a disgrace and an embarrassment to Texas A&M.

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I don't follow this logic, even without CGSC's cogent explanation. How is it an embarrassment? The first two years everybody takes Military Science classes and participates in weekend shoot'em ups (or whatever they do now). The cadets who would not get a commission push those who would to be better. I don't think there's any doubt of that. Add in CGSC's rules, and your only solution is to make all those who won't receive a commission enlist after graduation? This ain't frickin' Russia, comrade.

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Add in CGSC's rules, and your only solution is to make all those who won't receive a commission enlist after graduation?

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If you did that at every school, you would still have to turn away 60% of that pool.

Right now, the Army's yearly mission is capped between 55,000-65,000, even with President Trump's directive to increase the force.

Consider the services' missions in terms of percentage.

Army 50+%
Navy 27%
Air Force 13%
Marines 10%

If the Army's mission is 60,000, for example, doing the math:

Navy - 32,400
Air Force - 15,600
Marines - 12,000

Even if you just push the aforementioned requirements over the six senior military colleges, you still have at least 30% that you'll have to turn away, of which about half of those wouldn't qualify due to various reasons.

Must be doing something right

I've had some big ones. If you want SEC fans to universally get pissed at you, call Archie Manning overrated