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[Fearless]

Grease Up the Monument, Here Come the Plebes!

Ever rolled your eyes at Turkish oil wrestling? Well, we have our own strangely homoerotic traditions of masculinity right here at home.

Each year the freshman class, known as 'Plebes,' climb the monument at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., to retrieve the Plebian Sailor's hat and replace it with an officer's hat. The tradition is one step in marking the end of wearing freshman headgear and moving up to headgear more like a U.S. Naval officer.

Each class year competes against the other for the length of time it takes to complete the task. No one can say how long this contest has been going on, but on the Naval Academy parents' site (USNA.org) there is a list of times going back to 1962 (3 minutes). 1969 was the fastest time ever recorded: 1 minute, 30 seconds. And in 1995 (the year after DADT was enacted) it took an astonishing 4 hours, 5 minutes, 17 seconds. Imagine over 4 hours of sweaty, lard-covered, shirtless plebes, crawling over each other in the humid Maryland heat while being hosed down.





http://www.advocate.com/politics/military/2012/05/23/grease-monument-here-come-plebes?page=0,0

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[William769]

1. Not sure what to say here, let me catch my breath first.

[msongs]

2. typical nt

[WillParkinson]

4. Don't be jealous...

We can make our own pyramid at the next DU meet-up.

[stevenleser]

3. Lol

Well played.

[Bohunk68]

5. Now I have to clean my keyboard.

There's something sticky all over it. That lad in the bottom pic with his head in the other lad's lap. What's up with that? No blame here, just like to replace him.

[closeupready]

6. That looks like such fun!

Gawd, how I sometimes wish I was young again.