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These capabilities are representative samples of equipment found within the Army's brigade combat teams. Game-goers will also see how Soldiers and leaders at all echelons share data, imagery and position information.

Attendees will have the opportunity to handle Soldiers' body armor, night vision goggles, thermal sights, and individual and crew-served weapon systems. The Army-Navy game connects the American public to the Army, maintaining and strengthening goodwill, which is vital to the Army's success.

It highlights the U. Military Academy's role to educate, train and inspire the Corps of Cadets to become commissioned leaders of character, who are committed to the values of Duty, Honor, Country, and are prepared for professional excellence as officers in the U. Keenan Reynolds set an FBS record for rushing touchdowns by quarterbacks, and Army completed yet another listless football campaign.

As the snow fell on Lincoln Financial Field Saturday, the curtains fell on yet another dismal Army football season as Navy rolled, The Midshipmen jumped out to a lead at the half and Army never got the margin back to single digits after that. It wasn't a blowout, but it was never close as Navy coasted to the win. Navy's Keenan Reynolds set an FBS record for quarterbacks by rushing for his 29th touchdown of the year with two touchdowns on the day.

It's hard to think of a worse FBS program than Army over the last 15 years. That's not an exaggeration: Army has averaged fewer than three wins a season since , has made it to all of one bowl in the span and has beaten chief rival Navy once in those 15 seasons , when Navy beat absolutely nobody. In the triple-option, the quarterback takes the snap then puts the ball against the belly of the dive back while looking at the dive key.

The dive key is a defensive lineman who would tackle the dive back if he had the ball. If the QB sees the dive key is coming for the dive back, he pulls the ball out. If the dive key indicates he is not going to tackle the dive back, the QB gives the dive back the ball. After the dive fake, the QB continues toward the outside of the box now looking at the pitch key. The pitch key is typically the playside defensive end. At the beginning of the play, the pitch back gets into pitch relationship with the QB.

Some coaches say that is 4 yards out side and 4 yards behind the QB depth-wise. Others say 5 yards outside and 2 yards deeper than the QB. Whatever the exact dimensions of the pitch relationship, the basic principle is the pitch back must be so far away from the QB that no one player can stop both of them.

As the Army-Navy Game unfolded, I complained to my hosts that the pitch back was not getting into pitch relationship. Mainly he was too close to the QB and often he seemed to be directly behind him.

I finally wondered out loud why the TV announcers were not commenting on that. You cannot run the option successfully if you allow that to happen. Absolutely correct. The whole idea of the option is the two keys must never be allowed to tackle the actual ball carrier. The QB and pitch back must be sufficiently far apart and at different longitudes on the field that the pitch key has to commit to one or the other. But that is impossible if the pitch back does not get and maintain adequate pitch relationship and distance from the QB.

It was never corrected. That is the kind of mistake you would expect an inexperienced youth coach to make. If a high school freshman or JV coach allowed that to happen, he would get his ass chewed by the varsity coach and fired if he did not correct it. Army was second in the nation in rushing yards per game in , which means they must have had proper pitch relationship then. But they sure as hell did not have it much of the time on Saturday. I have no idea why. In the pre-game show they made a big fuss about an Army benchwarmer 45 who seemed destined to never play in a game—just on scout team.

During the season he had finally broken into the Army lineup making an amazing 14 tackles against Temple. So we spent the whole game looking for him on defense.

No The announcers kept saying these seniors on both teams are playing in their last game before they go off to war. Not so. Plus, the cadets and midshipmen get to choose their branch, what post academy military schools school they attend, and their first assignments I believe.

I chose Signal Corps communications which was considered a combat arm then which meant that by choosing Signal I had to go to Army Ranger School. That was so awful and dangerous that if I had it to do over, I would have chosen Air Defense Artillery which was the only branch I could have chosen that would have let me avoid Ranger School. We also could choose our first assignment.

I chose the 82nd Airborne Division. That, in turn, meant I could go to airborne school paratrooper training and that I would be at the 82nd for four months after which I would be ordered to Vietnam.

That is exactly what happened. If I had that to do over, I would have chosen Germany as my first assignment because they had an officer shortage and because the Vietnam war turned out to be an idiotic venture where you were risking your life for nothing.

We were told we were risking our lives to keep South Vietnam from becoming Communist. It is now Communist. So I am not anti-avoiding combat any more, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan where once again we seem unwilling to adopt the strategies and rules of engagement needed to win. The hell they are. Most are quite sensibly avoiding the branches, schools, and assignments that involve infantry-like combat.

A few are living up to the hype and choosing infantry or marines. Unfortunately, I suspect they are living up to the hype because of the hype. I guess there are good reasons to choose infantry or marines, but living up to TV announcer hype is not one of them. Following the example of the announcers—who sure as hell never let themselves get within 10, miles of a combat job—makes more common sense. They broadcast the march on of the cadets and midshipmen hours before the game itself.

I DVRed it and watched it later. March on refers to the entire student bodies of the two school marching in parade-like fashion onto the field before they go up into the stands to watch the game. They squeezed the cadet companies through a too-small opening to start. They were squished into a distorted formation. Also, toward the end, they had to walk past parts of the formation already on the field and got squished again such that they had to break formation then reassemble on the run.

We had fewer cadets the first year, after that, I guess it was just bigger outside-the-playing field fields. Old grads were saying it when I was born, when I was a cadet and ever since. I have commented in the past that we cadets were known for looking good but that one of our secrets for accomplishing that was we were generally only seen by the public from afar.

Baggett, is a graduate of Whitney M. Young Magnet High School, Chicag