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Old 05-21-2008, 11:29   #11
alfromcolorado
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The Trek went out around 97-98. COL M is correct that there was an incredible push for numbers coming out of the Q-course at the time. BG(R) Butler tried to institute a new standard where each O was evaluated on the effort he gave. It soon became obvious to the O's that you didn't have to do much and you would still get a go. That was pretty much the end of the Trek. Several years later their were efforts to bring it back but they never made much traction.
Roger, thanks...

It is amazing that I don't remember hearing about it until 10 years after I retired. Of course, what Os had to do to graduate never really came up in team conversations... It was usually something like "Hey sir, isn't it your turn to buy the beer?"
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