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Dr. Drill and His Answer Machine

Dr. Drill

You can submit your questions to Dr. Drill via e-mail to : DrDrill@CadetStuff.org.

Dear Dr. Drill,

I'm having a hard time finding the CAP Drill and Ceremonies Manual. You've said in the past that the AFMAN 36-2203 has all the answers we need, but that is an USAF regulation. Does the CAP manual have exactly the same information? Are the two manuals actually one, with CAP borrowing the exact same publication?

C/2dLt Brian Rook, CAP
Cadet Commander
Rochester Composite Squadron

Dr. Drill responds


Dear Brian,

Did you ever hear of 'Tom Swifties'? They're an adverbial pun, and as far as I know, they have no relationship to the genius inventor star of the juvenile adventure books.

Anyway, rather than go into a long discussion of how they're formed, I'll just throw a few out there. I'm sure you'll get the hang of it:

  • "I feel weak and dizzy," Tom said faintly.
  • "Pancakes for breakfast," Tom said flatly.
  • “Take a right and then a left at the cemetery,” Tom said gravely.

Pretty bad, huh? Now, why did Dr. Drill subject you to that? So that you'd get this joke:

  • "Of course I'm wearing clean underwear!" Dr. Drill said briefly.

And to answer your question briefly: Yes and yes.

Sincerely,

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.