Honor and Duty (72 page)

trou:
trousers. There are no pants at West Point.

USCC:
United States Corps of Cadets

walking the Area:
marching punishment tours in Central Area as a result of receiving excess number of demerits through quill; often a self-sustaining exercise, since cadets required to walk the Area were inspected prior to commencement of the exercise, often resulting in more demerits and more punishment tours

WFR:
written final review;
see
whufer.

wheel:
a Firstie with high rank. West Point’s cadets are actually managed by the Corps, not officers. Key to this are six-striped Firsties, who are at the top of their class in military aptitude. Wheels drive the First and Second classes, and through them, West Point.

white-out:
brain-swamping consequence of male celibacy

whufer:
slang for WFR, written final review, covering all of the material within a block of instruction. Plebe math WFRs lasted two weeks but reminded history students of the siege of Leningrad.

WPR:
written partial review, or whuper

Wu-lun:
see
San-gahng.

Yearling:
a Third Classman; a merger of a college sophomore, a parolee in a small desert ville, and a junkyard hobo: too young to be a true upperclassman, too rattled to button his shirt, and far too experienced to be a Plebe