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Everyone knows Yuk year is the worst of the four. The academics get harder (PHYSICS!) and you still have no privileges. It's only fitting that this all started when we were yearlings...

What the Hell is this thing?

It was TEE time my yuk year before Christmas break. We were all hating life. After all, it was 1993 and we were stuck at West Point during the grayest days of the year.

I grabbed my roommate's Matt Groening Love is Hell book, traced a character or two (I can't draw for squat) and had him say some snarky anti-TEE stuff (for the uninitiated, TEEs are Term End Exams - everything in the military has an acronym). My roommate cracked up. I drew some more. Our friends cracked up. By the time I finished 8 pages, I had blown an entire day of studying for my Physics 101 final (I wasn't going to do well anyway so I didn't see the foregone time as truly detrimental). My friends and I thought they were hilarious.

I gave them to my buddy who was on The Pointer staff (the cadet humor magazine). He loved them. He told me to change the names to protect the innocent and remove the profanity and he'd publish them in the next issue. Yearlings In Hell was officially born.

My friends and I wrote more of them for the next 2 and a butt years (obviously it became Cows in Hell and Firsties in Hell). It told our story. It made us laugh. It got us out of those cold gray walls for a few hours while we drew. We made others laugh and helped make West Point a more tolerable and survivable place.

15 years later, I bump into people who were at WooPoo while I was there. Invariably they say "Didn't you draw those cartoons?" "Yeah, that's me." "Thanks! I appreciated the laughs."

So I'm posting the compendium we threw together in my last semester at West Point. We called it The Big Book of West Point Hell. I hope you enjoy it whether you're an old grad or a new smack who just got his or her head shaved on R-Day. The humor of that place is timeless.

I was fortunate enough to return to my rockbound highland home a few months ago and spend some time with cadets and college students at the National Conference on Ethics in America. I'm proud to be affiliated with such fine young men and women who keep me safe. Thank you. If I can make you laugh with these, consider it a gesture of appreciation for what you're doing.

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No rabbits were harmed in the production of this work.

I'd like to thank Matt Groening for being such a hilarious guy. Without his wit and artistic talents, the Cadets in Hell series would never exist. We have no intention of profiting from this site. We will not post ads or generate revenue. It's a gift of humor. Apologies to Matt if any of this upsets him. Matt - if you're out there and mad at me, please call. I'd love to personally thank you for helping me and a bunch of my classmates make it through one of the most grueling institutions in America.

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