bigtruckguy3500 said:
rackmonster said:
Quo Vadis? said:
rackmonster said:
Quo Vadis? said:
Aggie Therapist said:
Naveronski said:
OP didn't serve; seems odd to judge someone else's service.
Why didn't you serve, OP?
He would have punched his drill sergeant
Oh yeah. I could handle a year of FDT and piss heads half of my size and 8 months older terrorizing me but a few months of ocs would have pushed me over the edge
Hey!!....I was a Drill Dick too! Small World.
what year were you on the Drill Team? my dad was FDT class of 1982
I graduated in the Centennial Class 1976...FDT 72-73, my fish year...N-1 Neanderthals...AL THE WAY AND THEN SOME!!! AHHHH OOHHH RAHHH!!
N-1 & FDT here as well (some 30+ years after you though). Both disbanded at some point in the 90's (not sure if you'd heard of N1 disbanded). Came back as the Knights. I've met a few of your classmates and advisors over the years. Actually, small chance I met you if you came to an N1 BBQ around 2007 (or maybe it was 2006). Remember someone saying he was N1 and one of the first to commission through NROTC.
INCREDIBLE!!!...That was me!! The date was Sept. 30, 2006, I came back for my 30th Reunion. Hard to believe, since I left the Navy, and Texas, that's the one and only time I've been back to Aggieland in the last 40 years. Job, Family...took me far far away. I remember meeting you guys as you were forming up for the March-In...met the CO (was it you?) and he invited me to the BBG in front of the dorm after the game. I had a great time...except for the game. One of the best damn games (Texas Tech) I'd ever seen in Kyle. The lead went back and forth, we had a 100yd kickoff return for a TD. Late, we're ahead 27-24. Tech is driving, they're on about our 30 yd line, and everybody thinks they're gonna play it safe, kick the FG and go into Overtime. But I was thinking,"Leach might take one more shot at the end zone, and he did. Had to be a perfectly thrown ball so as not to be picked off, the Aggie DB had ALMOST perfect coverage, but the guy caught it for a TD. OMG!
But back to N-1. That was the first time I learned that they were now the Knights. I have no way of proving this off course, but, I'm 99% certain that I was the guy who came up with the name NEANDERTHALS. Earnie Threadgill was our CO. (one of the few African-Americans in the Corps, he had it tough, things were a lot different in 1972..Earnie served in the USMC. He was true quality person, had it not been for him, we would have had twice as many fish quit as we did. Sadly Earnie passed away a few years ago) Our first week, Earnie calls us together and says we gotta come up with a nickname for the unit, and he told us it was our task. A few of us were sitting around and I mentioned "Neanderthals". Some guys said "What's that?"..I says..."a Caveman"...a few hours later, Earnie calls us together and informs us that we are now the N-1 Neanderthals. No, I didn't come up with the hump..somebody else did.
There were 2 NROTC Companies, us and S-2 Raiders. In N-1 we had 4 Zips, 8 Sergebutts, 6 Pissheads, and 36 fish. 2 of the pissheads flunked out, we lost a bunch of fish. Of the 36 fish, there were 20 of us
left 4 years later. We had guys from EVERYWHERE. Pennsylvania like me, Virginia, New York City, Chicago, we had a guy all the way from Bangor, Maine. Most of us didn't find out we had scholarships until late in the summer. We didn't choose A&M, A&M chose us. I found out I had a scholarship on Aug 15, 1972. Three days later, my dad is driving me down to College Station. I knew NOTHING about the Corps. My first week, one of my fish buds from Texas was telling me how he went to "fish camp". I says " that sounds neat..was it freshwater or saltwater"?
We had so many guys quit, and I couldn't really blame them. One guy had a 4 year Scholarship. He went back home after 3 weeks. I think the only difference between him and me..he was from Baytown, just down the road. There was no way I was gonna hitchhike all the way back to PA. and go back to sleeping in the same bedroom I had occupied since the 2nd grade. And just quitting and being a Non-Reg was not an option. My parents could not have afforded out of state tuition. It was Apollo 13. Failure was not an option.
Anyway, I could go on and on, Thank you so much for remembering the OLD Ag, and being so kind to me when I was down there.
OBTW. I was raised Roman Catholic, 12 years Catholic School....but.
BTHO Notre Dame!!!....as Billy Joel said "I'd rather laugh with the Aggies than cry with the Saints...the Aggies are much more fun...