<p>Spirit dinners
Sporting events
My instructors (although one’s stationed here)
Sosh run
Christmas Dinner
Ring Weekend
All the other traditions
Someone else dealing with my laundry
My roommates
My companymates
Being able to walk everywhere
My car (I’m in Korea, Area I. No car for me)
My clubs (Catholic Choir and Howitzer in particular)
The library
Grant Hall’s white chocolate macadameia nut cookies
Being done with my day by five-thirty
The Firstie Club, and hanging with my friends
Officers who took you home for dinner
My sponsor
West Point sunrises over the river
The architecture
Drill
Congo bar
Martha Washington Cake
Calzones
Dong Fong’s crab ragoon
Do-Nothing Thursday
The Days - it always gave you something to look forward to
Being a Firstie
Plebes
Running to Thayer Gate
Running hills on ODIA hill
Running Flirty and surprising people by the rocks
Intramurals
Optional dinner
The tourists at lunch formation
Swordfights in the halls
Minutes</p>
<p>lol i saw a video of the sosh run at west point on youtube. Hilarious! What year in particular do most cadets do the sosh run? I was thinking of doing mine in a power rangers spandex costume and doing front flips everywhere.</p>
<p>The funniest one I saw: two cadets walking side by side, one holding a laptop and the other holding the printer. haha!</p>
<p>Sosh is normally a cow year course. My year, we borrowed the Supe’s spirit car and drove that with about 12 of us in the car and in the trunk. Great fun.</p>
<p>Ooo…Chicken Crispitos and half cooked rice. Chicken pot pie! With biscuits. Corn chowder. PMI. Naps. I just got my yearbook, so I’m feeling all sentimental!</p>
<p>Trust me, I’m graduating from Ranger School tomorrow, and you’ll miss a ton of things about West Point if you ever go to that course, that’s all we did did was talk about stuff we missed, that and food, and sleep…and well, yeah, but food and sleep tie in with West Point, so it works out…</p>
<p>Congrats on getting through Ranger school! Do you mind if I ask some questions? </p>
<p>Is the weight loss really that dramatic? </p>
<p>I have a friend who just finished RIP and moved down to Hunter Army Air Field this week to be stationed with 1st Batt. He has the scroll, but not the tab. When does the regiment require enlisted personnel to complete Ranger school? Is it a requirement for promotion to Sergeant?</p>
<p>It is my understanding that officers must pass ROP to be stationed with the regiment. Do you have to complete Ranger school before attending ROP, and can officers try again if they fail ROP the first time? Thanks.</p>
<p>First, I lost over 20 lbs in Ranger School, I know guys that lost 40, but I also know people that lost nothing, so it really depends on the person. You’re getting 2 MREs a day which is a decent amount of food, but enough to keep you uncomfortably hungry all the time. Couple that with the fact that you most likely burn around 5,000 calories a day humping up and down the TVD in mountains or trudging through swamps, it makes for easy weight loss. Plus you dont sleep much, which doesnt really help much.
Regiment, as I understand from talking with Bat. Boys at School, will send their enlisted to School when they think they’re ready. They have to go to the 75th Ranger Regiment Pre Ranger Course and pass that first, then they go to Ranger School. Most guys spend about a year in Battallion before they go to School, but that isnt set in stone. As I understand it, you cannot make SGT without your tab, but the minute you get it you make SPC if you’re a PFC or whatever.
As far as officers go, you have to have gone through Ranger School and have led a PLT successfully in order to be considered for ROP. I’m not sure about trying again, but I’m pretty sure you cant because it will mess with your timeline as an officer.</p>
<p>OK, hide your eyes if you don’t wanna hear the bad bits…</p>
<p>Things bzzzt hopes NEVER happen to her again. </p>
<p>New York winters
NY pollen season
SAMI
AMI
Anyone ever inspecting how I fold my underwear
Wearing a uniform 24/7
Having to do PT in uniform
Not being able to cook
Taps Check (although I still have a curfew, thank you Korea)
People telling me when to go to bed
Scrubbing my own floors (Two words - House Boy. They come in and clean three times a week AND do my laundry)
Not being able to choose my meals
Mock-Es in the summer
Someone else setting my schedule
Websense
A/C weekends, although I still work on the weekends…at least it’s about protestors and interesting
Having a roommate
Issued furniture
Twin beds
Saluting everything in green that moved
Sprinting between Washington and Lincoln for class
Lack of privacy
Sharing a bathroom
India whites
Pin on rank</p>
<p>Those are on the top of my list…I think I’ll stop there :)</p>
<p>ah I know I shouldn’t have looked at that list… but is the pollen really bad up there!? I’m one allergic mother and I was hoping it wouldn’t be an issue in NY. It’s gotta be better than Atlanta, at least</p>
<p>Grr, I take Allegra but was really hoping that I wouldn’t have to up there, guess not! Do you have time during Beast to take prescriptions during the morning or something?</p>
<p>You’ll have time to pop one in the morning before you go…but remember, USMA is going to examine all your prescriptions when you get there. They may take your allergy pills from you because they cause dehydration. If they do, buy the little packs of tissues and drink lots of water…</p>