Authors: Gus Lee
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