****ing new army bull***** Or something seriously wrong must have happened. You dont go 3.5 years and then decide to skip out on the easiest semester in the Corps.

Does this say more about him, or about the direction of the corps? I say the latter. It's become a place where the head yell leader (arguably a quad celebrity) doesn't even want to be.

wow, lots of jumps going on here, try not to fall to far you might hurt yourselves.

Additionally, I have heard that finances had a lot to do with it. His outfit, E-2 has also been obliterated pretty much and is a shell of what it used to be.

CT'97 said:

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wow, lots of jumps going on here, try not to fall to far you might hurt yourselves.

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It's TexAgs. But you are right. Heard he's a great guy. May very well be circumstances for which he had to make a difficult decision. Wish the man all the best.

If the cadet hasn't made a complaint or indicated any mistreatment, why are we assuming such exists?

Ever consider that you're intruding on what may be a tough time in his personal life when he'd prefer to be left the hell alone?

He is still a yell leader (wears whites) he's just not in the corps.

Aggie118 said:

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He is still a yell leader (wears whites) he's just not in the corps.

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There has to be more to this story.

Yes. Force integrating with a bunch of female cadets who didn't want to move to E-2 themselves. The female cadet they picked as Leadership (1SGT) to lead the charge quit halfway through the year. Women make up roughly 16% of the Corps (the number is dropping), this making integration of E-2 unnecessary as it was not like the corps was running out of outfits that are a good fit for female cadets. I say all this to say that it was a political move; one that destroyed E-2s outfit culture. Had it been done in a different way under different circumstances (such as an actual NEED to open it up for females) I think things would be different and they would have been able to hold onto their identity.

You and I both know exactly why the outfit was integrated and there was no stopping it. If it had stayed the way it was it wouldn't be long before people started suing due to being denied equal opportunity in a student organization. Now onto your other point, what excatly was the culture that was in place that couldn't be upheld with females around? Because like the CTO's like to say all the time we are not a military organization, I've been in the army infantry for 6 years and while I think it's important that we are all male in that area because you make a better fighting team I have yet to see a single thing in the corps that being an all outfit would make better or change. Besides being able to walk around with your nuts hanging out on the way to the shower it really makes no difference and is foolish to make that the reason you become a bag and don't participate anymore in the corps.

As do I, no one is saying that's why he quit, I'm just doing my best to explain a lot of the apathy that is going on in E-2 at the moment.