OK, how about “upright”? No, too many letters. “Upstanding”? No, way too many letters. Hellfire and damnation! It’s on the tip of my tongue (so to speak).
OH, YEAH–

I hope that young man is a General some day.
And COL Brodie (former Marine) should be promoted immediately to Superintendent. Or Governor.
Everyone join me now… “Reddddd, white and yel-low flooooaaaats on hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh…”

There’s a great version of this on facebook floating around, with the obvious arrow drawn from Cadet Applewhite’s eyes straight down to Ms. Simpson’s chest.
Ha! Just remembered some advice given to me by an upperclassman, just prior to starting the ratline years ago…
“You’d be amazed how far you can stretch your field of vision while standing at attention.”
You can believe he will never hear the end of this when school starts again next month. Then again, he’s probably going to be receiving free drinks for a while as well.
I was wondering when this would get picked up on here. I almost went to that, now I wish I did.
I usually find dumb broads insufferable but I would take the time to explain “chicken of the sea” to Jessica. I love her new more substantial look.