CADET CHALLENGE #9

Here is Cadet Challenge #9:

The Marble Conundrum

The colors are wrong, but use your imagination!

You have three containers. One has only red marbles, one has only blue marbles and the third has an equal number of red and blue marbles. The labels on the containers have intentionally been switched so that each container is now marked incorrectly.

Your job is to re-label the containers correctly. Of course you could just look in the containers to find out which labels match, but can you do it without looking into each container? Reach into any one of the containers and select one marble. Can you now correctly label all three containers? If not, select a second marble from any container.

What is the fewest number of marbles you need to inspect in order to correctly label each container?

The challenge will for NS 1 and NS 2 cadets.  It will close out at 1430 Monday 15 December.  Good luck!

BETHEL DRILL MEET

Congratulations to the cadets of the Middletown High School Drill Team.  Forty-two team members traveled to Bethel High School on Saturday, 22 November where they competed against a field from 18 other schools.  Our armed platoon came in number two, our new cadet color guard placed number three, our air rifle team came in first place, and Cadet Zack Fuller placed number 5 out of a field of 486 other cadets in individual drill.

Here are a few pictures:

Our Varsity Color Guard performs.  Notice the sharps alignment and precise synchronization.

Unarmed Platoon

Our Academic Team.  

MHS Air Rifle competitors

NS 1 unarmed platoon.

No comment.

Armed platoon

Cadet Ramos presents the senior inspection detail.

The inspector checks out Cadet Jetjomlong's shoe shine.

Individual knock-out (IDK).  486 cadets from 19 high schools competed.

Cadet Master Chief Fuller, #5 over all!

CONGRATULATIONS TO CADET JESSICA GONZALEZ!

Congratulations to Cadet Jessica Gonzalez who solved Cadet Challenge #8.  It was a tough challenge--great job!

PICTURES FROM THE NYC VETERANS' DAY PARADE, 11 NOVEMBER 2014

Here are a few of the best pictures from the NYC Veterans' Day Parade:

0645 Muster

Push-up at the Vince Lombardi Rest Stop--the ceremonial first push-ups in the Annual Push-up Challenge.

Muster at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal

The Statue of Liberty from the Staten Island Ferry

Confused cadets on the deck of the M/V John F. Kennedy

Wall Street

The World Trade Center Memorial

South Memorial Pool, site of Tower 2

The Guilty Parties

CADET CHALLENGE #8--THE DINNER PARTY

Here is cadet challenge #8.  It's a tough one.  Cadets may compete in one of two categories,  Junior (NS 1 and 2) or Senior (NS 3 and 4), with one winner from each.  The challenge will close out at 1430 on Friday, 21 November.  Good luck!

The Dinner Party

Professor Heidel was talking to a colleague who told him about a dinner party he had attended with his wife. The colleague told him the following things about the party:

1. There were four married couples present.
2. Each person had a unique hobby.
3. The eight people were seated around a dinner table with the host and hostess at either end and three people seated on either side.
4. Only one married couple were seated beside each other.
5. A man was seated on either side of the hostess.
6. A woman was seated on either side of the host.
7. The hostess likes to ride horses.
8. Donna collects stamps.
9. Carol and her husband were seated on the same side of the table.
10. The piano player was seated next to his brother-in-law.
11. The person who grows roses was seated next to the person who does needlepoint.
12. Frank was seated directly across from the person who builds model planes.
13. Harold is seated to the immediate right of the hostess.
14. George and Betty were seated directly across from each other.
15. Alice is married to Edward.
16. Donna's sister-in-law is seated directly across from Carol.
17. The piano player was seated next to the hostess.
18. The stamp collector's husband was seated across from the model plane builder.
19. Carol was seated immediately to the left of George.
20. Alice is married to the fisherman.
21. The person who does needlepoint was seated across from the actress.
22. The actress was seated immediately to the right of the host.
23. The fisherman was seated across from his sister.
24. Frank was seated next to Edward.

What was each person's hobby and where did they sit? 

Happy people at a dinner party much like the one in question.

CADET CHALLENGE #7 SOLVED!!!

CONGRATULATIONS TO CADET CHRISTIAN VALENTIN WHO SOLVED THE PUZZLE.  THERE ARE, AS WE ALL KNOW, SEVEN DWARVES IN SNOW WHITE.  FOR HIS EFFORTS AND INSIGHT, CADET VALENTIN RECEIVED A BEAUTIFUL, PRESENTATION QUALITY U.S. NAVY WRITING TOOL.

"Lucky Weasel!"

Here's a spiteful challenge for you:

If there are 31 Fs @ BR, then how many Ds are in SW? 

The challenge will close out at 0730, Friday, 14 November.  There will be a prize to the single winner.  Good luck, weasels!

Everyone likes ice cream!

WHY IS THE PUPPY SO SAD?

The poor little puppy is sad because no one correctly, no one from any class, answered cadet challenge # 5.  Make a small dog happy and answer the next one!

"Pill 'A,' pill 'B,' I just don't understand."

PICTURES FROM OUR ANNUAL IN-HOUSE AND PFTArmed

Every year we conduct what we call an "in-house" drill meet to knock-off the dust and prepare our drill team to compete.  This year the in-house was conducted on Saturday, 25 October.  We had a the sharpest turn-out ever.  Good job to those who participated and thanks again to our judges, MIDN 3/C Jessica Glickman (MHS '13), PO2 Blanchette (MHS '06), and LCPL David Geer (MHS '12).  Here are some pictures:

Twenty-one cadets took the Fall PFT.  Good job!

Where is everyone else?

I don't know!

The senior color guard prepares.

Inspection--Everyone was inspected by each judge.  Common Discrepancies:  Shoes, gneeral knowledge, gig-lines.

The senior color guard performs.

Our three judges, from left to right:  LCPL David Geer, PO2 Blanchette, and MIDN Jessica Glickman

The XO looks on.

Cadet Ramos prepares to present the team for inspection.

"I got this one at Midway."

MIDN Glickman proves that everyone really is taller than her.

The New Cadet Color Guard performs.

The armed platoon led by Cadet Tyler Jetjomlong (extreme left).

Cadet Jetjomlongs checks alignment.

MSGT provides "advice."

Really?

RULES FOR STUDENTS

Rules for Students

(These rules were put forth by Charles Sykes in his book Dumbing Down America. They have floated through the Internet being attributed to Bill Gates.  Most often they appear with 11 rules leaving off three that the original author had written.  Since these rules are now about 15 years old, some of the references are getting a bit old, but the rules are still very valid.)

Rule No. 1:   Life is not fair. Get used to it. The average teen-ager uses the phrase "It's not fair" 8.6 times a day. You got it from your parents, who said it so often you decided they must be the most idealistic generation ever. When they started hearing it from their own kids, they realized Rule No. 1.

Rule No. 2:   The real world won't care as much about your self-esteem as much as your school does. It'll expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself. This may come as a shock. Usually, when inflated self-esteem meets reality, kids complain that it's not fair. (See Rule No. 1)

Rule No. 3:   Sorry, you won't make $40,000 a year right out of high school. And you won't be a vice president or have a car phone either. You may even have to wear a uniform that doesn't have a Gap label.

Rule No. 4:   If you think your teacher is tough, wait 'til you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure, so he tends to be a bit edgier. When you screw up, he's not going to ask you how you feel about it.

Rule No. 5:   Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping. They called it opportunity. They weren't embarrassed making minimum wage either. They would have been embarrassed to sit around talking about Kurt Cobain all weekend.

Rule No. 6:   It's not your parents' fault. If you screw up, you are responsible. This is the flip side of "It's my life," and "You're not the boss of me," and other eloquent proclamations of your generation. When you turn 18, it's on your dime. Don't whine about it, or you'll sound like a baby boomer.

Rule No. 7:   Before you were born your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way paying your bills, cleaning up your room and listening to you tell them how idealistic you are. And by the way, before you save the rain forest from the blood-sucking parasites of your parents' generation, try delousing the closet in your bedroom.

Rule No. 8:   Your school may have done away with winners and losers. Life hasn't. In some schools, they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. Failing grades have been abolished and class valedictorians scrapped, lest anyone's feelings be hurt. Effort is as important as results. This, of course, bears not the slightest resemblance to anything in real life. (See Rule No. 1, R ule No. 2 and Rule No. 4.)

Rule No. 9:   Life is not divided into semesters, and you don't get summers off. Not even Easter break. They expect you to show up every day. For eight hours. And you don't get a new life every10 weeks. It just goes on and on. While we're at it, very few jobs are interested in fostering your self-expression or helping you find yourself. Fewer still lead to self-realization. (See Rule No. 1and Rule No. 2.)

Rule No. 10:   Television is not real life. Your life is not a sitcom. Your problems will not all be solved in 30 minutes, minus time for commercials. In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop to go to jobs. Your friends will not be as perky or pliable as Jennifer Aniston.

Rule No. 11:   Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.

Rule No. 12:   Smoking does not make you look cool. It makes you look moronic. Next time you're out cruising, watch an 11-year-old with a butt in his mouth. That's what you look like to anyone over 20. Ditto for "expressing yourself" with purple hair and/or pierced body parts.

Rule No. 13:   You are not immortal. (See Rule No. 12.) If you are under the impression that living fast, dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse is romantic, you obviously haven't seen one of your peers at room temperature lately.

Rule No. 14:   Enjoy this while you can. Sure parents are a pain, school's a bother, and life is depressing. But someday you'll realize how wonderful it was to be a kid. Maybe you should start now.

You're welcome.