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Old 29th Aug 2023, 16:13
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BEagle
 
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One of the (few) advantages of staying on the Flt Cdt scheme rather than escaping to University, eh OB?

On a previous visit to the USAFA, the way that 'Doolies' (first year 'freshmen') were treated with all that turning square corners nonsense came as a bit of a surprise to the Cranwell guests. In the Mess Hall, one visitor told his host that he didn't much like the chocolate pudding he'd been given. Whereupon his host barked to some poor unfortunate "Hey Doolie, Flight Cadet nnnnnn doesn't like his chocolate pudding... EAT IT!" So the hapless 'doolie' responded with a "Sir, Yes Sir" or somesuch and duly started eating. Then the host announced "In fact, Doolie, none of us like our chocolate puddings....EAT THEM ALL!".

4 weeks or so of 'crowing' in the South Brick Lines at the mercy of the Senior Entry at RAFC was clearly far more genteel than the daft hazing meted out by USAFA cadets to their underlings in the name of so-called 'tradition'.
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