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Who needs a hug?
16 years ago
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The title of my journal comes from a guy in JROTC. You see they are required by law to let anyone join JROTC regardless of mental handy caps so we DO get Special Ed. cadets. (Honestly I think thats of dubious morality. Some of them most likely didn't even make the choice and I HAVE to wonder why there parents would sign them up for the class.)
Anyway as S-1 on our first uniform day I worked with our S-4 to make inspect each cadet and update thier records as needed. We got it worked out so that during each class period the cadets came in by platoon by squad and I updated/added thier info into the computer and made sure they had all the ribbons/awards they need. If they needed something I told them what they needed and they headed over to the S-4 to pick them up.
Well the special ed squad (collectively known as the fireteam) are up next and I was reasonably suprised that most of them knew there home adress and even had some JROTC extra-credit in the system, stuff like military ball and can food drives. Then along came Mister Hugs. I look at his name then bring up his page and ask if he knows his home adress. He responds with a sort of out of it grin and by saying, "Who needs a hug?"
I personally have never dealt with him before and I was slightly freaked out. He then says, "You need a hug!" As I try to convince him I was not in need a hug I shoot a glance over to the S-4 and Sargent Major pleading for help. Sargent Major tells Gene to go and guard the Major's white board and bails me out of a pontientally awkward scenario.
Other then Mister Hugs the first uniform day went quite well minus the usual JUMS errors. For some reason bravo first platoon and bravo second platoon are on different ends of the list. We had good cadets, average cadets, and suprisingly few bad cadets. We also had one company commander who forgot which way the belts go for boys and girls so the entire company had their belts on wrong. (Major and Sargent Major had fun with that).
Also watch our band video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndbjSPVYyKE
Anyway as S-1 on our first uniform day I worked with our S-4 to make inspect each cadet and update thier records as needed. We got it worked out so that during each class period the cadets came in by platoon by squad and I updated/added thier info into the computer and made sure they had all the ribbons/awards they need. If they needed something I told them what they needed and they headed over to the S-4 to pick them up.
Well the special ed squad (collectively known as the fireteam) are up next and I was reasonably suprised that most of them knew there home adress and even had some JROTC extra-credit in the system, stuff like military ball and can food drives. Then along came Mister Hugs. I look at his name then bring up his page and ask if he knows his home adress. He responds with a sort of out of it grin and by saying, "Who needs a hug?"
I personally have never dealt with him before and I was slightly freaked out. He then says, "You need a hug!" As I try to convince him I was not in need a hug I shoot a glance over to the S-4 and Sargent Major pleading for help. Sargent Major tells Gene to go and guard the Major's white board and bails me out of a pontientally awkward scenario.
Other then Mister Hugs the first uniform day went quite well minus the usual JUMS errors. For some reason bravo first platoon and bravo second platoon are on different ends of the list. We had good cadets, average cadets, and suprisingly few bad cadets. We also had one company commander who forgot which way the belts go for boys and girls so the entire company had their belts on wrong. (Major and Sargent Major had fun with that).
Also watch our band video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndbjSPVYyKE
normaly what we have been trying to do is promote general military knowlege among other things only problem is that most of the nutcases sign up just for the black cord and the grey beret for their class A uniform
normaly we are horribly under funded and over all disliked, this year we have a few people in high places like the S-4 NCO which will help with funding. and this year we got permission to teach krav maga and quite a few other things
basicly we are a group of a few dozen cadets that end up fighting each other for no apparent reason...