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Warr We thought we did some silly things. Excerpt from the Officer Candidate Guide of the Alabama Military Academy: 3-7. Dining Facility Procedures. a. Entering Dining Facility. Once the Company has been formed in preparation for entering the dining facility, the CO will call the XO to the front of the company by using the command: "XO, front and center." (1) The XO will then report to the CO, the CO will instruct the XO to "Read the Menu". The XO will then conduct an about face, give the company the command "Stand at ease", state “I HAVE THE MENU”, and read the menu, accentuating "AND BUTTER" as the last item on the menu. At this point, the company will come to the position of attention and in unison, say "Yum, Yum!" and then immediately return to the position of "stand at ease". The XO will then call the company back to attention and conduct an about face where the CO will instruct him to return to his position in the company formation. Click to read the entire document Enis I remember Lt Oliphant well. He was the XO for C-2 and he was having a blast harassing us in our first formation in the quadrangle in the rear of our barracks. He was screaming at someone for being erudite aka:" You think you are A-Rew-Dite Candidate ???" That was his word for everything and for everyone. I still laugh about that. White ... not have been enough grease left in the puddle of his bodily fluids to waterproof the flap through which he had just entered. The good old boy greasy in the frozen mud hanging in the air on the end of a tankers' bar beside a tank that has a track thrown to the inside. Warr My first week as a senior candidate presented a perfect opportunity. Coming out of the barber shop in pristinely starched khakis, I was greeted by a perfect line of parade rested basic candidates. I reveled in my imagined perfect impression of Ralph Mullens' best for many minutes before one brave underling interrupted with, "Excuse me sir, Candidate So and So!". To my snarled, "What do you want, you gross excuse for a lowlife mess!", he calmly replied "Sir, Candidate So and So. Your cap's on backward." Drozda Arlie Enis says he remembers when we would read the news and Lt. Bertin said to speed up while Drozda was reading the basketball scores. So Drozda read the scores without the team names. (source: Drozda site tailgatershandbook.com/selectorpages/BlogsReunion/ocs/ocs-c2.html Warr George W Smith was a platoon leader with me in Troop A, 1st Sqdn, 3rd ACR in 1967-69. In Baumholder, Germany the training area was large enough that there was a Table VI tank range (moving - machineguns only), but there was strict elevation limit to prevent .50 cal rounds from causing a bad day in the surrounding neighborhoods. In prep for Graf Tank Gunnery, one of my first tasks was to safety that range. George was the most memorable of the runs. Riding on the top of his M60-A1 turret that dark night I thought I had a perfect perch to sense his rounds, but when the first fifteen round burst was loosed I saw nothing at all through the IR binocs. Being relatively green, I assumed I must have been looking off line and wasn't too concerned. Turned out, George could see nothing through his FLIR sight either. Undaunted, he loosed a second burst -- that one took me by surprise so I wasn't looking through the binoculars and I caught the flight of the rounds in my peripheral vision -- straight up! The linkage on the M85 had become disconnected. Before my excited "Cease fire!" command got through to him, George was halfway through a third determined salvo. I cringed in my exposed position for the next five minutes or so, expecting a rain of heavy bullets.
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