Is this West Point cadet checking her phone while marching in formation?

She is already lost on the Land Nav Course.

Lol no -- maybe she is using a Blackberry she was issued. Don't those still have buttons?

The gloves may not be, but they make a film you can apply to any fabric that will allow the glove to function with touch screens. I have it on my mountain bike gloves. Can not see it and works awesome.

You were in ASA or another similar unit. A friend, SGM of an ASA unit told he had no problem w/ drug users. His troops were the drug dealers!

CSM Charles Hayden Passed 7/29/2025 I was in ASA units, twice at the schoolhouse (once in AIT and once as an SQT developer and AIT instructor) and twice in field units. My ASA field units were different than most ASA units, though. We were very small detachments in direct support of a separate Infantry brigade and an Infantry division. There was simply no drug use or peddling, except for our exceptional use of alcohol when off duty and not in the field. I was friends with a lot of people at the schoolhouse as both a student in the barracks and a staff and instructor, and I never saw any indications of drug use or dealing at all. So my experiences were quite different from your friend's. The whole regularity of 5-year bring up background investigations and constant counterintelligence overwatch was a pretty good deterrent to any criminal behavior.

Now, if he was talking about in Vietnam, I certainly heard rumors that some of the large ASA units had some drug distribution capabilities going on there, but I had no first-hand knowledge of that. I also never worked at any of the large ASA Field Stations, which were apparently different worlds all to themselves, but if they were selling drugs there, they were selling them to their own kind, because no one else was around, except maybe in Augsburg.

SGM (Join to see)That SGM Academy grad spoke of his troops were the ones selling drugs in Germany - during ‘Nam.

CSM Charles Hayden Passed 7/29/2025 - That wouldn't surprise me at all. I heard rumors of this, but never saw anything like it, myself. I'm sure your friend has way better information than I.

Wait until they discover texting while in the Army.

They are in formation. route step or otherwise, you do not pull out a cell phone, light up a cigarette, anything you keep your mouth shut and go from point A to point B. AR 670-1
paragraph 3-6(d) Soldiers will not walk while engaged in activities that would interfere with the hand salute and greeting of the day or detract from a professional image. Examples include, but are not limited to, walking while eating, using electronic devices, or smoking cigarettes, cigars, or pipes. Soldiers are not authorized to wear wireless or non-wireless devices/earpieces while wearing Army uniforms. Hands-free devices while operating a personal, commercial, or military vehicle (to include a motorcycle or bicycle) are allowed if not otherwise prohibited by policy or law in accordance with AR 385–10.