Yeah, same here. I almost replied but withheld, I'd rather not make some parents cry.
On second thought, I'm kinda bored today :icon_smil
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Yeah, same here. I almost replied but withheld, I'd rather not make some parents cry.
On second thought, I'm kinda bored today :icon_smil
VIZKRIEG
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I'll throw out an example here....
There was a cadet at West Point who's mother LIVED in the hotel on campus the entire time he attended. As the story goes, she used to look at his barracks to see if his window was lit and he was doing his work...
That cadet eventually became GEN Douglas McArthur. I agree wholeheartedly with this post, and the op, though I haven't been on either end of this problem, but I figured I'd play devils advocate for a bit...
There was a cadet at West Point who's mother LIVED in the hotel on campus the entire time he attended. As the story goes, she used to look at his barracks to see if his window was lit and he was doing his work...
That cadet eventually became GEN Douglas McArthur. I agree wholeheartedly with this post, and the op, though I haven't been on either end of this problem, but I figured I'd play devils advocate for a bit...
I find this story VERY hard to believe, do you have a link?
http://americanhistory.si.edu/westpoint/history_6a1_pop2.html
found a link, although the story is not quite true... she was only there for 2 years
found a link, although the story is not quite true... she was only there for 2 years
cyristvirus
STA-21 FY08 College Dude
My mom beat my ass. I guess thats why I didn't go to the USNA.
Here is a Time Magazine article I found from 1942 which talks about, "flashes of young Douglas hurrying every day to meet his mother on West Point's Flirtation Walk or being helped by her to escape from the West Point hotel through a coal chute when he was caught out of bounds."
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,790539-1,00.html
It sounds like she was a helicopter/harrier mom after all.
Of course, they didn't have the myriad of communication systems they have today, so it's not like it's a good thing.
And his dad was a Major General and the military commander in the Philippines at the time. So you have to figure that he also must have played a role in his son going to USMA in the first place. But all of the parental bullying must have had an effect. He graduated USMA at the top of his class. I guess his fellow students didn't have their parents hanging around full-time to check on them too. :icon_wink
Have you guys seen that episode of "everybody loves Raymond" where the mother, Marie, goes to the FBI and pleads them to accept her son Robbie into the FBI? When watching that show, I thought it was pretty funny but would never happen. But after reading this thread, thats what I'm picturing these parents as haha.
H20man
Drill baby drill!
As I said before....
The Millennials are coming, the Millennials are coming!
http://www.airwarriors.com/forum/showthread.php?p=396011#post396011
The Millennials are coming, the Millennials are coming!
http://www.airwarriors.com/forum/showthread.php?p=396011#post396011
Way to make generalizations, there. (the author, not you) I'm apparently one year removed from the official "millennial generation" and am already a LT. I think that article takes the worst stories of dealing with this generation and turns them into a stereotype. The job needs to get done and if someone's precious snowflakes can't handle that, I don't want to serve with 'em anyway.
"When I turned 18, my dad took me aside. He said, 'Son...the boy has become a man. You can go to college. You can go into the Army. You can go to work. But the operative word...is go.'" - Alonzo Bodden