The Maneuver Ball was so much fun. It was a great time with so much tradition and ceremony, it is really cool to be part of an organization with that much history. I was there with Naomi Fuhrman, we where there to hang out with all the cool Infantry men and to dance. However when the music started they were not playing swing music, but club music and that is not our scene. We put up a valient effort at dancing and that was great, but it was also very entertaining to watch all the drunk people dancing because they were just commical. One of the cool things was the “grog” it was a sort of alcohol punch. They tool 10 different liquors’ and mixed them together each one represented a war or conflict that he United States had participated in. then when COL Haskes tasted it when they were done, he said, “there is something missing…” and one of the guys mixing pulled out an ACU Boot and threw it in which represented all the miles we have walked and our journey through west point. Then COL Haskes tasted the grog again drinking it from the boot. That was cool, the grog was absolutely nasty it was so strong.
the Commander of Fort Benning he has some great stuff to day. One of the things he talked about was,
“They don’t care how much you know….until they know how much you care.”
I think there is more truth in this then any of us realize. Your soldiers are not going to care how much you know, that said we have to be tactically competent and proficient but that matters little compared with how much we care about those we lead.
He also said,
“Be proud but don’t be satisfied.”
Like the captains from the Ranger Regiment said, you have to earn your scrolls everyday. Every day we are working towards becoming better and improving ourselves.
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