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Cow Year Highlights: 500th Night, Car Shows, Car Loans, Ring Selections And Summer Assignments 500th night provided a welcome break during spring of Cow year. Besides all of the planned events, champagne brunch and formal ban- quet, it represented only 500 days until we shed the cadet gray and donned the Army blue. Even more, it meant that there was only a little time until we were to become wear- ers of the black brass, less than one semester left as Cows. The next event during Cow year was the car show. It would take a lot more than a rainy day to keep anx- ious cows away from new cars. Celi- cas, Camaros, and Firebirds seemed to be the most popular cars on Thayer roof. There were those who looked longingly toward Corvettes, BMW ' s and Saab Turbos, but only a few purchasers. Gas mileage, sporti- ness, and reasonable prices seemed to be the most important features we were all looking for. Spring came a little late Cow year as an April snowstorm whirled its way through the area making it difficult for the two minute dash to turn Sosh papers in on time and delayin g the two mile run test. The snow finally cleared up as the weather warmed and spring flew by at a speedy pace. As Graduation for ' 82 approached, we the class of ' 83, began to prepare to take over the leadership of Corps. We joined the plebes by attending formation ten minutes early, except we went for sabre practice. Summer detail positions were published as well as shadow detail positions. 422
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Second Class Year We Donned The Brass Cow year began for us at diverse training sites. Certain exceptions to the typical combination to summer training faced those individuals for- tunate enough to be selected for a foreign exchange assignment to such places as Garmisch, France, Australia, Africa, and several South American countries. The other cate- gory of exceptions consisted of ap- proximately 75 of our classmates who really lucked out and not only served in a leadership detail 1 sum- mer but 2 summer as well (such as a Beast squad leader position where the opportunity existed for building more character!) We were also afforded an opportuni- ty for training at several military schools. There was airborne for those who liked adventure in the sky; air as sault for those who en- joyed rappelling; jungle warfare for those who didn ' t mind very hot weather and lots of insects; northern warfare for people who felt like climbing glaciers; SERE for those who felt the need to experience be- ing treated as a POW; flight school for would-be aviators; and finally the newest addition to schools- SEAL-for five highly qualified SCU- BA divers who wished to subject their bodies to very rigorous train- ing with the professional SEALs of the Navy. All in all. Second Class summer had an awful lot to offer each and every one of us. Upon com- pletion, we felt ready to return to West Point as Second Classmen and begin our next-to-last year. The academic year was challenging once again but at least we were starting to get more into our elec- tives and our pull-out factor was also much better. Being a squad leader or perhaps as- sistant first sergeant (striper pup) were other aspects of Cow year that taught us quite a bit. It was a year filled with anticipation and of what job would we get during the sum- mer; what stone should we put in our rings; what kind of car should we get and with what options . . . .500th Night came and went and be- fore we knew it shadow detail ar- rived and then the big day when we donned the black brass! 421 Z tt .-4
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