1. Put that out of your mind, plebe.

2. Other plebes standing in line at 6 a. m. Tuesday to start the registration process had their families with them.

3. The Academy has this quirk about a plebe having to pass orals before proceeding.

3. try its best to gather and create good sentences.

4. While the other plebes were bitching about the chow, Eddie cleaned his plate.

5. Plebes play any one of 21 intercollegiate sports or participate in intramurals.

6. This plebe required three tries to draw blood from the medical corpsman who tends each newcomer. That fact left several senior members laughing riotously.

7. The plebe candidates and their cadre leadership prepare for the oath of office.

8. Each plebe picks up one of these white sacks in order to stuff all their new clothes, shoes, and sandals into.

9. Each plebe candidate is given a copy of the Reef Points, a small blue book with the rules, regulations, and mores of the Navy and the Naval Academy.

10. Withhold Rewards In their plebe year at West Point, cadets are not frequently praised for a job well done.

11. Each plebe gets a canteen, which is hung off the back of their new uniforms.

12. Their father had advised Bubba and Scotch about verbal harassment during plebe year.

13. William Bogle, Commandant of Midshipmen, tells each class of plebes.

14. Posted in huge letters on classroom walls, the words bore into plebes.

15. Your parents search for you in the crowd of plebes clawing up Herndon Monument in a greasy, glorious finale.

16. These sons and daughters have endured, have earned the right not to be a plebe ever again.

17. One of the first stops on I-Day is to get their heads shaved. Here, a plebe candidate is seen before going under the clippers.