Yes, Caleb, do write it up. Or down. Maybe we should have a mini site of
cadet memories in lit >g< I was lucky just to be a sarge!
Andrew
On 30/10/2008, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Caleb, do write all this up at full length (where's Singleton?), it sounds
> full
> of painful comedy and social significance.
> Max
> Quoting Caleb Cluff <[log in to unmask]>:
>
> > Ha - I was made a CUO (cadet under-officer) at boarding school on the
> > strength of my father having been one, and some military history in the
> > family. Needless to say, my platoon of some 40-odd teenage schoolboys
> were
> > querulous at Singleton bivouac, and then mutinied outright at the annual
> > passing out parade, sabotaging almost every display they were in. I have
> > memories of canoes sinking and youths dangling helplessly from abseil
> > displays, and a puce-faced major (in his daily life a Marist Brother, and
> at
> > night given to drunken renditions of 'Sweet Adeline') screaming every
> threat
> > he could muster if I didn't rein them in. As if.
> >
> > And the indignity of being saluted by real NCOs and soldiers whenever we
> > were in their company, simply for wearing those little, meaningless,
> > diamond-shaped epaulettes.
> >
> > Caleb
>
>
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