<p>During Spring of plebe year, we were actually disappointed when we found out that they weren’t shuffling our class. The reasons for our discontent ranged from wanting a “fresh” start to just plain wanting out of the company. There was this belief that our 2/c would still treat us like plebes after the summer, and that our performance grade would be based more on our perception as plebes…</p>
<p>All that being said, I’m happy we didn’t switch. We got an amazing Senior Chief and LT at the end of that year, and there were no issues with the 2/c. Once theres brand new plebes running around, all thoughts of the fact that you used to be a plebe are completely lost. For the most part, as long as you stepped up as a youngster, you could easily shed any plebe year stigmas. For example, between 2nd semester plebe year and 1st semester youngster year there were people in my company whose performance ranking went up as much as 20 spots.</p>
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<p>The major downside of being shotgunned is that you won’t be able to build on the comraderie with the guys you went through plebe summer and plebe year with. I think shotgunning was used more as a type of punishment or to correct a problem than being a normal occurence. When it did happen, it was fairly rare</p>
<p>-Btw, for any one who doesn’t know, shotgunning is different than “shuffling” (which is when plebe companies are moved en mass to a different company). Shotgunning is when plebes from the same company get shotgunned to companies all over the brigade.</p>