All Academies Speak II

Colleges & Universities Service Academy Parents
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<p>Hey, this is pretty neat. Here’s a link to a picture of our warrior son enjoying himself at CBT. At least I am claiming him as our son until disproved.</p>

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<a href=“http://www.usma.edu/Class/2009/CBT/picture458.jpg[/img]”>http://www.usma.edu/Class/2009/CBT/picture458.jpg

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<p>aspen- you are too funny! hope he ends up being yours, if not there might be some 'xplainin to do!!</p>

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<p>Aspen-good lookin’ fierce soldier like that…gotta be yours. Now I’m assuming the red block with a ring in the end of the gun is so no one actually gets shot.</p>

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<p>Aspen
I was just about to eamil you to tell you I spotted your son but you beat me to it! I recognized the tilt of the head!</p>

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<p>Are you dads sure that it’s not a girl? :)</p>

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<p>momoftwins: If it’s a girl, she has “man hands”. (Seinfeld fans will get it, others won’t)</p>

<p>Cougar: Red block is put on rifle so NC knows which end to point forward.</p>

<p>On a more serious note, keep me in your prayers tomorrow. It’s our son’s birthday and will be his first birthday away from home. I’ve prepared by bringing home some extra boxes of Kleenex but I expect it to be a long day for my wife - and me.</p>

<p>Any suggestions would be appreciated.</p>

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<p>Liquor may help.</p>

<p>Actually, you may want to bring out the baby books, or start the WP scrapbook - as long as you’re crying anyway.</p>

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<p>Aspen</p>

<p>Go buy something really BIG!!!</p>

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<p>Steve finally made it on to the Eagle web site…he’s third from left in this picture hauling in a line. The young lady is a Canadian coast guard member who is on an exchange program sailing on the Eagle for five weeks. She looks less stressed than the swabs!
They landed at Madeira today and Steve and company will fly back to the states on Sunday.
<a href=“http://www.cga.edu/eagle/dailyposition/images/08042005/Canadiancadet.htm[/url]”>http://www.cga.edu/eagle/dailyposition/images/08042005/Canadiancadet.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Very cool!! It looks like they’re having a great time. And the picture is even titled “Canadian Cadet”. </p>

<p>While they are in Madeira on the Eagle, those WP new cadets don’t even get a boat for gorgeous Lake Freddie. :slight_smile: </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.usma.edu/Class/2009/CBT/CBT05.htm[/url]”>http://www.usma.edu/Class/2009/CBT/CBT05.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Bossf51: Nice photo of your son. We need your son to go visit the WP cadets at Lake Frederick and explain how to use a boat and to tell our cadets that you stay drier “inside” the boat.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.usma.edu/Class/2009/CBT/picture571.jpg[/url]”>http://www.usma.edu/Class/2009/CBT/picture571.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>More fun on the Eagle…</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.cga.edu/eagle/dailyposition/images/08022005/hennessy.htm[/url]”>http://www.cga.edu/eagle/dailyposition/images/08022005/hennessy.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Okay . . . I am gone a few days and ya’ll change all the rules: Descriptive locations and all. Next thing you know, we’ll be posting pictures [oh, I see THAT is happening too. . . .] and exchanging telephone numbers.
Maybe we can just turn this into a dating exchange for parents with kids in the academies. :)</p>

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<p>Welcome back Bill…not a bad idea you came up with…LOL…esp. for us single dads!</p>

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<p>Great, now I can’t let my wife read these posts or she’ll never let me come here!</p>

<p>Bill, hows your Plebe doing?</p>

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<p>Thank you, thank you, thank you! It makes it so much easier to read the posts knowing which academy your sons and daughters are attending. Though the service academies have similarities and differences, they are all on the same side; committed to defending this great Nation.</p>

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<p>My plebe is doing GREAT! We received another letter [I think our fourth] and they have each gotten progressively better. From four lines [I am writing this because they are making us] to four pages [D&B is great! & I finally get to do the obstacle course; I can climb the rope at least twice].
It sounds as if he has made the transition.</p>

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<p>Just returned from our New Cadet Birthday celebration. My wife, younger son and I decided to have dinner at our son’s favorite Chinese restaurant. Dinner went surprisingly well despite the vacant fourth chair. Think the wine mellowed out my wife - and me. Sure miss my son - and the traditional birthday cake.</p>

<p>Shogun, took your idea and sprung for the big gift - a new 30cc 200mph leaf blower. And my wife says I’m not a romantic.</p>

<p>Hope you all have a good evening.</p>

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<p>Happy birthday to aspen’s son. Happy Birthday to you! C’mon ya’ll! Sing along. I wallow in your misery aspen. You can run over my husband with the car if it will make you feel better… (all others see previous post in another thread) I’M BACK! I’m gonna bake cupcakes tomorrow with you in mind. Have you noticed that here are those few quiet seconds in your day where you would give a ga-zillion dollars to be with him? Bet this is one of those times. So sorry ya’ll had that forth chair empty. Must have been strange. On the other hand… Man that leaf blower must ROCK! And the liquored up wife probably isn’t a bad thing either! :slight_smile: Hang in there!</p>

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<p>aspen: happy birthday to your son…surely one he will always remember!</p>