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Visit to VMI
By Townie 76
Over Thanksgiving I visited VMI. I really like the New New Barracks, very classy design.
Drove my in-laws to the VMI Museum (they are Older and It was Raining) and then wanted to go to the Marshall Museum.
In order to do so because of the new traffic pattern, I had to drive off post, up Main Street, turn on to Letcher Avenue and then go the Marshall Museum. I am not sure who the Brain Surgeon was that came up with that, but they really need to rethink it.
I understand that the Superintendent wants to keeps cars from in front of barracks for safety reasons, but the traffic pattern just defies common sense.
I had a chance to visit Adam Volant while in Lexington. What a great guy who is doing a terrific job as the Executive Vice-President of the VMI Alumni Association. Had a chance to just shoot the breeze about several items, one of which involved an Alumnus who recently applied for a job at VMI. He did not get the job, but learned so when he received the Institute Report.
Regardless of whether one is a graduate of VMI or not, when one applies for a job if they are not selected one should get a letter saying thanks for applying but you were not selected.
Word on the street (this did not come from Adam Volant) is that Human Resources does a very poor job of communicating with those who apply. In one case they forwarded by accident an email to someone who had applied for job with an attached document entitled Rejection Letter. This is a case of ready, fire, aim. VMI can and should do better than this.
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Sir,
Next time you visit, make sure to take that turn to go around behind Barracks instead of going back out on Route 11. They built Third Barracks over the road that runs behind all three Barracks, and you'd be able to get back to Supe's Hill that way, without going back out into traffic. Just one of those little things...we always question why the traffic pattern didn't revert back to what it used to be.
VMI 2011--I am very aware of the back way to the parade ground I use to run it as a Cadet and ride bikes back there as a kid; I am also very aware that a Post Policeman told me I was not use it as I tried.
My point--regardless of whether one goes up Rt 11 or goes the back way the traffic pattern is not well thought out.
Isn't it time for VMI to name the barracks? I mean old barracks, new barracks and new new barracks? How about Jackson or Washington barracks, Marshall barracks and Gerow or Sheperd or Pate or Puller or Lejeune, etc barracks. Marshall was obviously a giant, but Gerow and Sheperd especially were among the most accomplished WWII field commanders. A statue of either of these guys in combat regalia outside the new arch would be well deserved and appropriate.
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Sir,
Next time you visit, make sure to take that turn to go around behind Barracks instead of going back out on Route 11. They built Third Barracks over the road that runs behind all three Barracks, and you'd be able to get back to Supe's Hill that way, without going back out into traffic. Just one of those little things...we always question why the traffic pattern didn't revert back to what it used to be.