IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING...

As you know, we have started our annual push-up challenge.  If you were wondering what it's all about, here's the gouge.  We do push ups to remember those Americans service members who died during the Vietnam conflict.  There are 58,267 names on the wall and between Veterans' Day and Memorial Day we, as a unit, will do one push-up for each.  If you are wondering, that comes to about 12 push ups per day per cadet.  As an extra challenge, and to highlight the fact that a winner always try to exceed the goal, we will push to 100,000 by the end of May (about 24 push ups per cadet per day).  Doing these push-ups is not a punishment, each push up should remind us of the sacrifices of those thousands of Americans who gave their lives so that others could enjoy freedom from want and fear while enjoying freedom of speech and liberty.  The last push-ups will be completed ceremonially by members of the senior class at our change of command ceremony. 

As of 6 December we have completed 6.087 putting us at 6.1% of the goal.

The Vietnam Memorial Wall, Washington, D.C.