What could be finer than an authentic, medium-quality graphic of our class crest bouncing around your screen? If I recall, we had a screen saver similar to this (with only the USCC crest) loaded on our computers right from the issue point. If this doesn’t bring you right back to August of 1995, I don’t know what will.
-Alex
I had this email forwarded to me yesterday. I thought it was a pretty good commentary on our current Army football “challenges”.
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From: Dibella, Fred L NF-III 6 SVS/SVBG
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 9:52 AM
Subject: This ain’t complicated, it just takes open eyes and ballsI am a former Army Colonel and a member of the class of 1969. Our class has the highest winning percentage of victories over Navy in all sports in West Point history. In football, we only lost once to Navy, we had a Sugar Bowl bid, and our HC was NCAA Coach of the Year. Incidentally, we ran a pre-cursor to the modern-day option offense. I think we know something about the subject of winning.
Class of 99-er Sean Mattingly sent me this a quite a while ago, and I lost it until just recently. Some of you may have heard about a “drug sting” at USMA in April of 2006. Apparently, the BTO announced that there would be a Corps-wide fire drill the next day early in the morning. Once everyone was out of the barracks, he sent in K9 units from local law enforcement agencies. This heated up the Corps pretty good, and that night a “riot” ensued. Seems to me like we used to call them Spirit Rallies when we were there.
I know, I said every month. I do have several updates from class members to post — those will be up shortly. In the meantime, to curb your need for information and entertainment, I’ll offer up the following nostalgic journey to the past.
The following exchange took place between a member of the Class of ‘07 who’s excited to get into the real Army, and a Major at West Point (apparently a course director) eager to squash his enthusiasm and assert some dominance. He also presumes to represent the Army Special Forces, Civil Affairs, and Infantry branches as a whole. I’m sure you all remember those types from our time served. Maybe 10/10 Thompson rings a bell? Someone with a last name that sounds like Lazar?