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-A lot of people don't realize that A&M is one of six federally-designated senior military colleges, like the Citadel or VMI. We just happen to have 45K non-corps students as well, but we commission about half our cadets as officers.

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aggiegirl2005

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The CSA is not dissolved.

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Please don't ever compare yourself to either of these schools especiallys The Citadel....i can promise you the fact that you have the same federal designation is where the simlarities end.

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The institution opened January 2, 1860, with Colonel William Tecumseh Sherman as superintendent.

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Please don't ever compare yourself to either of these schools especiallys VMI....i can promise you the fact that you have the same federal designation is where the simlarities end.

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Two Citadel cadets and six Virginia Military Institute cadets are getting a
taste of Aggie hospitality this semester, and eight members of the Texas A&M
Corps of Cadets are spending the fall at those schools.

The Citadel and VMI are participating with A&M in a semester-long Corps
Exchange Program to help improve integration of women at the two other schools.

Monica Strye, Corps recruiting sergeant and a junior animal science major,
said the cadets from the Citadel and VMI are at A&M to observe how men and
women in the Corps react to each other so they can improve integration at their
schools.

She said two A&M cadets went to the Citadel and six A&M cadets went to VMI to
observe situations between men and women and to tell them how situations are
handled at A&M.

Citadel and VMI cadets attend classes and participate in all their outfit's
activities with A&M cadets. Also, the A&M cadets at the Citadel and VMI will
attend classes at those schools and participate in activities.

John Getgood, a senior VMI cadet and a member of Squadron 16, said he and the
other VMI cadets have had a smooth transition from a campus of 1,250 students
to a campus of 42,000 students.

"We really like the campus," Getgood said. "One of the guys said he'd like to
transfer here (A&M)."

Ken Carll, a junior from the Citadel and a member of Company P-2, said he
thinks the program helps cadets see how integration at A&M works instead of
just hearing about it.

"It's one thing to tell someone how to do something, but it's another thing to
actually go there and see the other side," Carll said.

Carll said the Citadel has two female cadets. Getgood said VMI has 31 females.

Strye said Texas A&M was asked by the Citadel and VMI to participate in the
exchange program because A&M has had women in the Corps longer than any other
service academy or cadet program.

"It's not perfect, but it's the longest," Strye said

Women joined the Corps in 1975. Fifty-one women were in the first all-female
ROTC unit, Company W-1.

Maj. Becky Ray, special assistant to the Commandant, said the male officers
who are supportive of the integration program and the female cadets deserve
credit for the success of A&M's integration program.

"We don't pretend to have all the answers," Ray said. "We're trying to share
what we've learned to keep them (cadets at Citadel and VMI) from making the
same mistakes we have."

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What makes you think they are so different?

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