Aggie Corps marches through period of transition

[TheGallopinGoose]

Dallas Morning News

 

[LonghornCatholic]

Poor Aggy. They can't openly haze anymore.

 

[salonghorn-70]

Wouldn't it be funny if one year no one joined the corps?

 

[Texanne]

Texas A&M, where they put the "cult" in agriculture.

 

[WorsterMan]

agricultural & mechanical college of Texas where the men are men and sheep are very nervous. Whooooop!

 

[Longhorny630]

I like the comments on there. One person said we should stop making fun of the Corps because we might need them one day (an example would be the day after Pearl Harbor). Well, I'm pretty sure we are in a state of "war" and you know, I really don't feel like we need them as less than half actually serve this country.

 

[STLHornFan]

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[BeatYaEasyEasy]

I know there are other posters on this board who are in the military and have been (or are) deployed. I, for one, find the notion of "serving" in the corps, ABSURD. You aren't serving anyone except yourself unless you are part of the small majority of corps-members who graduate and accept a commission in one of the services.

I've known a few guys in the Army who went to A&M and, like graduates from any school, some are good Soldiers and some are garbage. I think the confined, inbred nature of the corps however, generally does a disservice to young men and women because it is an insulated organization that doesn't allow kids to experience college/diversity/reality.

 

[Texas Taps]

What's funny is that it was written by Jeannie Kever, Houston Chronicle

 

[kujotx]

Or, that the corps is headed by Betty.

 

[bornalonghorn84]

I was about to say.. anybody notice that the DMN can't even write their own articles?

They truly are an AgriCult. Hopefully they edge that group into sanity. Who would protect the innocent blades of grass, though?

 

[RayDog]

I wonder what the combined ROTC, NROTC, AFROTC participation is at UT. I can't imagine that it is substantially lower.

 

[HousHorn09]

Don't bother RayDog. You know facts and tangible evidence are useless with the agroid collective.

They are a military school (in their minds) and the Corp churns out more Generals than West Point (doesn't matter what the actual facts demonstrate) and Patton still said that he'd win the war with a 1000 screaming aggys (in spite of the fact that the Gen. G. Patton estate refutes this statement was ever made by the General and has never found any evidence to back this claim up).

Debating with aggy is as productive and pleasant as repeatedly placing your balls into a vice & clamping down. It simply offers nothing more than pain & frustration.

 

[BeatYaEasyEasy]

RayDog, I graduated from UT in 2007 and was in AROTC. Our commissioning class was around 20 or so, though that was just Army.

In answer to your post, there are a lot more students in ROTC at aggy than there are at UT. But, as I mentioned earlier, I think that aggy produces both good and bad young officers, much like most ROTC/West Point/OCS/Direct Commission programs.

 

[accuratehorn]

Wouldn't the headline be more apt if it stated, "Aggie Corps marches to different drummer?"

 

[Strange Tex]

I don't know about apt, but "Aggie Corp Marches off Cliff" sounds pretty good. I'm just kidding! ....but, seriously...with pictures

 

[centexorange]

" One day at Corp camp i grabbed my nuts. Whoops then i realized it was someone elses!! "

 

[Y Sanchez]

I love going to Kyle Field and seeing all the Hitler Youth march in with all their glorious medals. Some of them have more awards on their chest than Audie Murphy and Chuck Yeager combined.

And earned in four years in College Station, Texas.

What a joke.

 

[drborange]

From the title of the thread , I thougt they were going to do something different at halftime.

 

[getyourhornsup]

Since only about 30% of the aggy corps serve in the real Army, I bet they have maybe 50-100 more per year than UT. That's not much considering how much they like to parade around thumping their chests about their military tradition. The Citidel they are not.

 

[jmrob93]

Like anywhere, there are good and bad from every school. In the 90's the bad ( 30-40%) never got active duty. I hope that hasn't changed-- the troops deserve better. I was in the Officer basic course with 2 and a sooner and funny---I wasn't impressed--I ended up the honor grad.

In jump school--I had 3 in my unit--pretty good guys-- tolerable individually--way over the top as a group.

And then there were the 2 aggies in jumpmaster school that didn't make it through first try--about as pitiful a moment as the know it all westpointer that was in the same boat as them.

Funny thing-- act an *** and you never get the benefit of a doubt.

They generally well regarded in the Army, but like westpointers--took a long time to "settle in"