The hoses went away shortly before you guys got there. Which I never understood, because I'm sure summer classes would have liked the cool off. Visits to the sand pits in general used to be a lot more common, I'm told. One chief told us that one of his classes about two years ago used to have 20 minutes to fill their p-way with sand, then they'd get SUYA'd indoors, and then they'd have 20 minutes to clean it. Amazingly, they could do it. He also said once they had a 'gear adrift problem' so they threw all of their clothes into the kill zone, covered them with detergent, and then planted the guidon in the middle so they could get it out. "It looked like friggin' Iwo Jima and made for a good class t-shirt" or something like that.
Good. The whole rationale for having them over there was like "The DORs in King Hall have bad attitudes that rub off on the med holders!" - apparently a med holder who quit was partially egged on by a DOR or something. They also used to have much more loose liberty rules etc for med holders - dunno why that changed. I think the med holders would be better off in King. The student pool candios are dedicated folks - people who are willing to hang around for months after graduation to get a new designator. And most of the DORs are like "eh, it wasn't for me" and aren't particularly bitter about it. If anything, student pool would be a better influence on med hold than having to be around miserable old H-class all the time. Or, on a more practical level, there is space in King Hall and not as much in Nimitz.
