New Mexico Military Institute

In fact, for many, it's the beginning of a better road.

Some of them choose to go to military prep programs like NIMI New Mexico Military Institute or Georgia, Merion Military Institute.

There's a whole bunch of them.

The reapplication rate from those is acceptance rate is very high.

How'd you end up in Southwest Missouri?

So graduated high school, went to the Army's early commissioning program, competed over the summer, got a scholarship, went to New Mexico Military Institute, and they slid the contract in front of me.

Again, going back to the Gulf conflict, I wanted to do armor or artillery.

I'm enamored with massive pieces of equipment, right? And so I got the scholarship, they put the contract in front of me, said, I asked the question, can I get armor or artillery? There was no guarantee.

So turned the scholarship down, still went to New Mexico Military Institute because it's an academy prep school.

junior college, then transferred to Maine Maritime Academy, got a Navy scholarship, graduated, started sailing with military seal of command, traveled the world, been to 59 different countries.

I was averaging like 10 months a year or 10 months a year deployed and just being a small town country boy, love that aspect of it.

He doesn't want to meet us at his house.

He's stationed at the New Mexico Military Institute, which is kind of an ROTC type thing, a military school, and the military actually supplied equipment I'll say administrative stuff because that was what Stone did.

He was an administrator.

So he didn't want to meet us at his house.

They pick up a big win last night over...

New Mexico Military Institute, three games to two.

It took five sets.

They won the first set, dropped the next two, and then rallied in set four to win 26-24 and then won easily in set five, 15-8 to get to 4-1 on the year.

We never had any, any luck with that.

I think Frank Kimbler, um, who is a instructor at the New, New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, has been out, uh, many times with his metal detectors and stuff, and he's found some little bits and pieces that are sort of anomalous.

I think the testing is still being done on it, and we don't, we don't know, uh, and we don't know when that stuff may have been dropped too.

If you look at the, uh, Aurora ca- uh, Texas crash in 1897, and they're saying, "Well, uh, you know, we, we found this metal," but some of the, the metal didn't exist before, like, 1908.

And Frankie Rowe was very frightened when we began.

She did approach me, [smacks lips] I believe, uh, Don and I had, uh, made a presentation at the, uh, New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, and she approached me afterwards and said she knew something about it.

Very reluctant to talk about it, and gave us bits and pieces of the information till we finally got the full story.

Wow.

The big thing is the line of scrimmage.

William Boone, who's been at every damn school in America, [laughs] New Mexico Military Institute, shout out to Diego Pavia, Kilgore, uh, Prairie View A&M with my guy Bubba McDowell, w- when he was the coach there, I think, and then North Carolina last year.

Whew.

And then Jalen Early from Mizzou.