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In typical **** fashion, to support their arguments about the "greatness" of their school, they only ever cite materials produced by the school. Our erstwhile little **** friend cites propaganda produced by the school and then uses that information as a reference citation as in "we made it up, here is the document where the fake information came from, therefore I have proven the fake information to be accurate because I offered its source."
In my mind, the **** claims to any military significance are total bull**** as long as they continue to worship their on-campus statue of someone who unquestionably ordered the cold blooded murder of American servicemen on active duty (Sul Ross). By honoring someone directly responsible for the murder of American servicemen, **** is on the same list as the Waffen SS in WWII, the PLO when they murdered the Marines in Beirut and Muammar Gaddafi when he ordered the murder of American servicemen in Berlin.
I fully understand **** hypocrisy, but there can be no claims of loyalty to the nation when every day they actively celebrate someone directly responsible for the clod-blooded murder of American servicemen. Such bull**** is beyond hypocrisy. Either you stand for American servicemen and respect their sacrifices or you worship and revere those who murdered American servicemen in cold blood. You can't have it both ways.
quote:WTF is this short-dikked idiot talking about?quote:
I fully understand **** hypocrisy, but there can be no claims of loyalty to the nation when every day they actively celebrate someone directly responsible for the clod-blooded murder of American servicemen. Such bull**** is beyond hypocrisy. Either you stand for American servicemen and respect their sacrifices or you worship and revere those who murdered American servicemen in cold blood. You can't have it both ways.
quote:You see the title of this thread, right? PRetty plain, easy to read, easy to ignore.
Good. Let him. You're just propping him up further by regurgitating that scum here. It stopped being funny a long time ago. He's pathetically irrelevant to anyone with an IQ above 50. Jusr stop
Thanks...FWIW.
quote:My father as well, left after his second year at A&M, spent two years in the Army, and returned to finish his degree at A&M. He would also be one who wold be neglected by the numbers that this idiot tosses out.
Not to defend this clown, but he is partly correct in that not all Aggies who 1) served as officers, 2) served in combat, or 3) served at all were commissioned through ROTC at A&M. My father applied for USAAF Flight School upon graduation from high school, and while waiting enrolled at A&M in 1942, attended classes and was in the Corps - B Battery Coast Artillery for one semester. He was accepted for USAAF Flight School and left A&M to learn to fly and earn a commission, which he received upon graduation and getting his wings. He flew over 100 P-51 missions in Europe and a further 56 missions ferrying VIPS all over Europe after Germany surrendered while waiting for orders to either report to the Pacific theater or come home. He returned to A&M in 1946, the year he would have graduated had he not left to fight the war, and graduated in 1949 with a BS and an MS in Aeronautical Engineering.
He was an Aggie, an Army Officer, and a combat veteran as well as serving in non-combat duty. There were literally 100s like him in all classes who left Aggieland to serve. Some returned to graduate, some did not return at all.
So my reasoned response to Randy is "So ****in' What!?"
quote:There was no ROTC at tu prior to 1947 when the Army ROTC was first activated. I won't spend the time to do it again, but last time this BS came up a little searching the internet led to finding that less than 60 officers are commissioned from all (Army, Air Force, and Navy) ROTC each year at tu. Further, tu ROTC includes students from not just tu, but also St Edwards University, Concordia University, Huston-Tillotson University, and Austin Community College.
If sips are putting out the same number of "fake soldiers", shouldn't Randy devote his time to addressing all the "emotionally stunted civilians" at his own alma mater?
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I implore you to take several steps back and evaluate your life. Make this last decade worth something.
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The 42% number is pure bull$#@!. For 2016, they have a goal of having "close to" 200 ROTC graduates commissioned. For 2016, the numbers are projected to be 96 Army, 54 Air Force, 41 Navy/Marines. This number is not appreciably different than the number of UT Austin ROTC graduates who are commissioned...."
"In history, the number of UT grads who served and are Veterans are way more than ****"
"The vast majority of ag-gy corps members never serve a day in the military. In a good year, ag-gy ROTC has 200 graduates commissioned as officers (the average ROTC class at UT produces about 140 commissioned officers)...."
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the average ROTC class at UT produces about 140 commissioned officers
quote:So these numbers are not even t.u.'s actual commission numbers but the numbers of ALL FIVE SCHOOLS combined under the t.u. umbrella!! Let me state that again, the number found below are for ALL FIVE SCHOOLS, not just t.u!
If you are attending Concordia University, Huston-Tillotson, St. Edwards University and Austin Community College you can join the University of Texas ROTC.
quote:Randy literally believed the exact opposite of truth and fact. It's all he has now...
So Randy Duke's conclusion is:
-- the SECN (which is nationally distributed to 50 states) is doing poorly (he claims the SECN is barely bringing in per-school revenues that match West Virginia, a state with 1.85 million people).
-- yet ESPN's LHN channel is doing awesome financially!
quote:From the shag...
From earlier this month:
Ags win ROTC Cup at West Point
quote:CMSIII posted the above paragraph on Shag several months ago.quote:
Until and unless **** grows the $#@! up and quits taking pride in bull$#@! like fake championships, "winninghalftime," mid-season recruiting championships, contrived "traditions" and payscale.com "rankings" they will never be anything other than an overfunded farm school that fails to deliver on its potential.
quote:Several members of my sons outfit (just graduated) are going to OCS from the Corps, including (hopefully) our son. They couldn't commission straight in because the military was not offering commissions for their degree. I know D-Co, the prior service outfit also has some going to OCS.
Haven't read through all the posts yet but has it been brought up that ROTC is by no means the only commissioning source cadets utilize at A&M. Not to mention we have plenty of vets, many of the combat variety, who may or may not be pursuing a commission in the corps nowadays. There are plenty of folks who commission via PLC, SMP, etc. I'm quite astonished that, with his vast active duty military experience randal has over looked this. Or has this ****er never served a day in his life, have no clue what in the wide wide world of sports he's blabbering on about, and is, yet again, being disingenuous, or all of the above?
quote:There is plenty of anecdotal evidence out there - I can honestly say in my 20 years in the Air Force I never met a single tu grad in uniform, although I did have several GS-12 tsips working for me at Kelly AFB. Of the 8 of my classmates in my Corps outfit who wore boots as seniors, 7 ultimately received commissions, two of us stayed to retirement, one ultimately was an Army Artillery officer.
Anecdotal evidence: in my ten years in the Marine Corps, I can't think of a single horn grad that I've run into. I've met dozens of Aggies.