<p>If your mid gives you a “heads up,” thats great…but again, keep it private and quiet… send your mid an “extra box” with a suggestion he passes it along. The approach I took was to send “lots” to be shared “by all.” Add in a card “for all the plebes of XX Company”… with lots of encouragement!!! Just don’t put in a “countdown clock” for the end of plebe summer…that’s just too far away in these hot days on the yard!!! Oh… and if you can make the stuff “funny” all the better!!! Make them laugh if you can!!! </p>
<p>ps…might want to send a “thank you note” to the chaplins- who have been providing “over 100 dozen” donuts each and every Sunday for the plebes!!! They are out there each and every day…from sunrise till sunset… and then some! </p>
<p>Also-if it’s any consolation, the tone of plebe summer has been “lightened”…no shouting in faces, no “drop and give me’s” …</p>