[Gamecock]

In 1985 I was attending ROTC Basic. One day were doing rope bridge crossings, slide for life, etc. Towards the end of the day we had the bright idea of throwing our Drill Sergeant into the creek. We caught him, took off his brown round, took out his wallet, and threw him in. He scrambled out, and in the gentle manner that only a drill has, formed us up, marched us into the creek, and dropped us for pushups. In the down position we were totally under water

When we "recovered" he had us form up around him and told us something I remember to this day: "When all of you are officers, remember, there is nothing wrong with having fun at the end of a long day of hard training."

[Newbomb Turk]

We had a little ritual called E-Tool qualification. When we were deployed out in the field far from any supply area we would round up 5 or 6 privates and tell them it was E-Tool qualification testing time.
We had everyone remove there soft cap and we had everyone kneel in a line facing forward. We told them the object was while blindfolded to hit a quarter with the E-Tool and dent it. The first one to qualify did not have to dig fox holes all afternoon
We got everyone blindfolded and ready then said go but before we did we exchanged all of the quarters for there soft caps. You have never seen so many cut up soft caps in your life. And they had to wear them for several weeks in the field all the time getting ragged by the first Sgt every time he saw there ragidy butts.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Texas A&M - Back when it was a Corps of Cadets ..... Discipline was strictly inter-corps, and handled on a class basis by each upper class.

Talking with my fiancee on the phone late on Thursday. She kept hearing "Up. Down ..............Up. Down ........... "Up. Down........."

Finally, she asked what I was doing.

Told her, "Down. Giving a bunch of sophomores pushups. Up. Down............"