2011 Army Navy Football- A Game of Honor: In the Trenches

[zzz573]

2:05 Its JAMIE FOX!!!

[txmardeck]

Hubby played for Army for three years and graduated from USMA in 75. Very proud of him.

[AdaytorememberKSE]

I am doing the marines academy summer program next summer. Hopefully ill get in to west point the following year. Ill get a chunk of both :)

[cmprice11]

@AdaytorememberKSE the marines don't have a service academy

[DraketheGreat1000]

@cmprice11 I think he means a military high school program, like ROTC but for the summer

[tambourDOM]

@cmprice11 Marine Corps falls under the Dept of Navy and so midn from USNA can be commissioned as officers in the Marine Corps (if they select to be one and are selected to be one). So technically you can say the Naval Academy is a service academy for the Marine Corps.

[AdaytorememberKSE]

@tambourDOM yes thank you marines is a subdevision within the navy. thats why they show marines trianing

[cmprice11]

@tambourDOM I know, I attended and graduated from USNA this past May.

[AdaytorememberKSE]

@cmprice11 Yes do some research kid, marine military academy son.

[cmprice11]

@AdaytorememberKSE It's called the Merchant Marine Academy, and from there you can graduate and be commissioned into any of the 4 services or become a civilian merchant marine... meaning you would work for merchant ships in the civilian sector. Not only did I 'do my research,' I am not a kid- or your son. I'm a Naval Officer.

[tambourDOM]

@AdaytorememberKSE You probably mean merchant marine?

[alumniought7]

Funny how the kid isn't even going marines. He's going subs. A bit anti-climatic.

[vaoutdoorsman22]

ought7: Spoken like someone who didn't get his first choice of service selection.

[TheDuhgreat]

@alumniought7 Actually, that was at The Basic School in Quantico, VA for a USNA summer training program known as Leatherneck. Yeah, Showtime may have made it look a little more intense than it actually was, but Gunny Vogel definitely ripped me a new one a time or two during the summer. Also, everyone who completed Leatherneck got to enjoy the E-Course, which is what was shown in this clip...So, not scripted, and the lack of rice and communism = not like N. Korea.

[davidemerling]

@TheDuhgreat I graduated from the Naval Academy in '79 and there was no such thing as "Senior Enlisted" assigned to the companies who told the midshipmen what to do. It was rare to see ANY enlisted personnel in the Yard. And, they certainly didn't yell at upperclass midshipmen during ANY kind of summer training. It's really kind of an awkward relationship. The enlisted have the experience yet the midshipmen have the rank. (Technically, a midshipman outranks all enlisted personnel.)

[cmprice11]

@davidemerling Nowadays, the Senior Enlisted do not see it that way. Some are great mentors that greatly benefit the development of Midshipmen, but others seem to just be jerks.

[ParisLondonRoma]

I didn't realize the marines were so chickified : (