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So, more flair? Dr. Drill You can submit your questions to Dr. Drill via e-mail to : DrDrill@CadetStuff.org. Dear Dr. Drill, I am preparing a Flight Drill Instruction Guide for next year's encampment and came upon a question that I could not answer with confidence. What is the position of the guide when halted in inverted column formation? I have read two conflicting unoffical publications. The AFROTC publcation I read stated that is was on the left. The other publication stated that is was on the right. AFMAN 36-2203, Paragraph 4.2 only specifies for line and column formations. Thanks for your time. Sincerely, //Signed// 1st Lt Peter Coates SDWG/ACP Assistant Director of Cadet Programs Dr. Drill responds Hello Peter, what's happening? Listen, I'm going to need you to come in on Saturday, okay? Yeah. Ahh, I'm going to have to go ahead and ask you to come in on Sunday, too... Thannnks. Oh, and the Guide is going to stay in whatever position the flight commander put him in with the 'GUIDE LEFT/RIGHT' command for the brief interval the flight is in reverse column. Mmm... Yeah. Oh, and can you move a little to the left? Yeah, that's good. Thannnnks. Dr. Drill

Caution: Dr. Drill isn't always one hundred percent serious. Please activate your Joke Detectors. And don't call us when you find yourself explaining to a membership termination board why you used a staple gun to keep a cadet's hands at his sides during "To The Rear, March". All we're going to say on your behalf is "Duh!"

And if you find yourself on the bad end of a serious counseling because you decided to go toe-to-toe with your squadron commander over the position of the guide during a squadron-in-mass formation or something similarly trivial, well, we're just going to point, laugh and call you names!

Dr. Drill welcomes comments and corrections. Nothing herein is to be construed as official policy unless quoted from an up-to-date regulation or manual and Dr. Drill is not to be used as a blunt instrument to reshape the pointy heads of your superiors. Dr. Drill has made an extensive study of the drill and knows some people who know some things, but he's not the Final Authority on what happens at your unit. That Final Authority is? That's right, kids! Your UNIT COMMANDER.