OK we have a few things in common. We are Alabamians, we are conservatives, Christians, and teachers. I love the military as my husband served in the army after coming out of Auburn ROTC. We can just forget the Alabama-Auburn thing. (I do love Auburn.)
Actually, I'm a FLORIDIAN who used to live in Alabama. Stipulating that, I'd agree to the rest. I was commissioned out of the Bama ROTC program. Auburn has a beautiful campus and some very sweet people. And they have a course not offered by Bama that I would have given my eyeteeth to take...even just to audit!
It was a course offered thru the agriculture program in cattle butchering. Taught you all the cuts of meat and how to secure and preserve them. For the final exam they handed you a steer carcass (whole on a pair of sawhorses) and the tools and told you to cut it up. Invaluable tool for a hunter, or anybody interested in long term survival skills.