Just back from the Hudson River valley

[jk the sooner fan]

went up to listen to Joe Biden give a speech


I present to you - newly commissioned 2LT jk3

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f343/jksantee/ee253d24.jpg

the hat toss
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f343/jksantee/1606447e.jpg

[KABOOKIE]

Congrats to the new butter bar and the proud papa

[Wishboned]

Congratulations!

[8timechamps]

Congrats!

[olevetonahill]

Grats to him. Its been a long 4 years

[Soonerfan88]

Congrats to you and jk3. I see he's going Armor. Is he hoping for cavalry?

[jk the sooner fan]

Congrats to you and jk3. I see he's going Armor. Is he hoping for cavalry?

no, he's going to a heavy unit at Ft Hood - 1st Cav.....his choice for now

[cleller]

I met a West Point grad recently who is about 85 years old. Still has that West Point ring on. What a good deal.

[diverdog]

Congrats JK.

We swing by the Hudson every year on way home from Maine. I have taken my boys to West Point three times and we enjoy the museum. Next, year we are hoping to get their Boy Scout troop up for a weekend. This year we did Annapolis.

I don't know if you had a chance to drive to Rinebeck NY where the Clinton's daughter got married. It is a really nice area. The CIA is fun to go to for a meal.

Funny story. About 15 years ago we were up at West Point with some friends when you could just drive on the academy grounds....pre 9/11. Anyway, my wife's friend was this high flying Wall Street exec who has a personality larger than life and she always has these floofloo dogs with her. As we were walking around the parade field I stopped to talk to a cadet when all of a sudden I saw this look of horror in his face. I looked around and saw my friends dog taking this huge sh*t right in the middle of the parade field. Now being an AF guy I thought it was funny but in the West Point world it was a huge deal.........I mean huge. Cadets, guards, civilians seemed to have come out of the wood work to jump on our friend. I had to really sort things out fast and I cleaned up the mess being very apologetic. Man you would have thought the dog crapped in the Vatican. It was that bad. Having gone to a military school I sort of understand their point of view but a simple please clean up your mess and get the f*ck off the parade field would have been enough. I think if they could have lined up the dog and our friend before a firing squad things would not have come out real well for them.....at least not the dog.

[jk the sooner fan]

you're talking about The Plain - and yeah - nobody sets foot on it unless they're in a parade..its off limits to cadets even unless they're in formation

funny story......

[rock on sooner]

Ten-hut! Congratulations!

[hawaii 5-0]

Congrats.

I'll be in the Hudson River Valley in a month. I hope to make it to West Point.

5-0

[badger]

the hat toss
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f343/jksantee/1606447e.jpg

Soooo... are your names on the inside of your hats or do you just grab one that falls in your area and hope it fits? :D

congrats!

[jk the sooner fan]

Soooo... are your names on the inside of your hats or do you just grab one that falls in your area and hope it fits? :D

congrats!

thats a cadet hat - they dont wear them as 2LT's - the tradition is that they put money in the little name tag slot inside the hat - at the end of the graduation ceremony - about 200 kids - ages 6 to 10 -are lined up in a roped off area off to the right of the picture - they are released and do the mad dash to grab a hat...most cadets put a $20 spot in there

so that hats are basically trash! :) (i think he bought an extra one as a memento)

[pphilfran]

Congrats

[dwarthog]

Congrats!

[C&CDean]

Must be weird calling your kid "sir." Congrats to you both. My buttons would be bustin'.

[jk the sooner fan]

as long as he calls me dad or chief - either one ;)

yep - i've been looking at pictures i've collected from the last 4 years - he's grown a lot. I got pretty lucky in the kid department - both my boys are pretty great - of course i'm extremely biased

[sooneron]

Congrats, dude!

[Curly Bill]

Congrats jk. Really cool deal.

[Sooner Mommy]

Congratulations to you and to your son! Great accomplishment!