Virginia Military Institute - Bomb Yearbook (Lexington, VA)

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Rat Training Rat at training is probably one of the most challenging activities of the first year at VMI. During military duty on Tuesdays and Thursdays, a new cadet is allowed to attempt and ac complish things that would have been un- thinkable the year before. Nothing makes this activitiy more possible than the dedication of the upper-classmen that run the various stations and work with the various s. Without their work. Rats would not be able to experience the pride of discovering talents and skills that they never knew they possessed. One of the most d allows a cadet to e: sheer cliff. One of the more popular events, the corporal chase, provides a good way to frustrations as well as making for a good tivilies of rat training, repelling. 1 the challenge of scaling down a

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OFF LIMITS The W L library was made virtually off limits by the im- plimentation of a policy that gave cadets no time to do any in-depth research at the facility. Jogging through the W L campus came to a halt after the W L administration made the request that VMI run

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Rat Training 1