Quote Originally Posted by Coindanasty View Post
I may have just been a crappy cadet, but I'd have to think that somewhere along the way I learned something while getting smoked as a four-degree or in yet another pointless M-hour.
or maybe more pointedly, the "crappy" cadets seem to be the only ones still in service. I was one. I was a rugby player- dirty, nasty, scum of the earth.

If you look at an old corps photo of my boys, the ones that were shiny and glossy and compelled to a lifetime of service in the Army left a long time ago to corporate America.

Those of us that were less than stellar (in appearance mind you not grades or perfomance) still remain. From that category, one is a doctor, one is a fullbright scholar finishing up his degree in Shanghai, and another is a test pilot currently drinking (correction studying) in Atlanta at Georgia Tech with a photographic memory. Others deploy and redeploy to Iraq/A'stan as commanders then advisors.

I'm the blogger.

In my small world, we encompass Anbar, Diyala, Baghdad, Nuristan, and Helmand.