Posted on 04/23/2007 1:45:38 PM PDT by Jake The Goose
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (AP) -- The Citadel will break with tradition and install locks on all cadet rooms amid concerns about safety in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings.
Male cadets at the state military college have no locks on their barracks doors. Female cadets can lock their doors from the inside. The tradition had evolved in keeping with the spareness of military life and with the school's honor code, which mandates that cadets do not steal.
Now, all cadets will get keys to lock their doors from the outside by next semester. Installing the locks will cost about $125,000.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Need a bomb dropped down an air shaft, close air support, a downed pilot plucked from behind enemy lines, or a load of cargo dropped? Call us at the air conditioned Officers' Club. Someone is bound to be sober enough to fly.;-)
I am class of ‘84
My uncle was class of 51’!
Not only is the Air Force the youngest service, its father didn’t claim it.
I agree with you completely.
I was class of’84 N company, this is the Hodge
Wow - I am thrilled to meet you sir - and your son - and his mates.
I am shaking my head at the list you put forward.
Pensacola - my father (USNA 52’) was first in his class at Pensacola flight school.
Honor Court? - the hall of fear - I am glad I never had to appear.
Surface Fleet - my brother in law is USNA class of 76’ - Surface officer
I finish with this.
Tell your son and his friends to enjoy life to it’s fullest - but to always live it “inside the ropes”
You, and your son, and his friends, will understand.
No one works harder
No one serves more honorably
No one parties harder
God Bless - an hold your head high
This post was my honor sir.
The bastard child of a hundred lunatics, sort of like Freddy Krueger.
Handguns had a problem with most [real] door locks and padlocks.
However, the M1 did not.
Don't remember if they tried a shotgun let alone the load.
That would explain the EOD guys I knew in the Air Force.
I just love these inter-service things, especially toward the end of the day when someone in the Navy feels sorry for the Marines and explains the punch lines to them so they can understand why they are laughing.
Damn , I didn’t mean it to be THAT BIG !!!!!
I always thought they were a little strange, too. A thousand meters was about as close to real atomic bombs as I could stand.
Radiation is good for you.
It had it all - and I hated it then - and I love it now.
What a conflict I have to live with...."
It is the way a lot of people feel about a lot of things, including The Cidatel and the Military.
I always think of those guys who spent that time in Bastogne...how, oh now they must have hated Bastogne, the war, Germans and the military life.
But to a man, from what I have heard out of their mouths, none of them would trade the experience. It defined them.
Hi Hodge!
Check your freepmail.
Kalee
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