<P> Members of the Corps are often referred to as "C.T.s" or "B.Q.s". While these terms originally stood for "Cadet in Training" and "Band Qualified", respectively, they are more commonly and derisively used to abbreviate "Corps Turd" and "Band Queer". Freshmen in the Corps are required to "whip out" to upperclassmen . This tradition requires the freshmen to extend their hand and introduce themselves to the upperclassman . From then on, they are expected to know the name of the person to whom they "whipped out ." The tradition applies only to upperclassmen in the Corps, and not to "non-regs", students who are not in the Corps . </P> <P> One of a senior cadet's "most cherished possessions" are his Senior Boots . Only seniors are allowed to wear these knee - high riding boots, and most consider receiving their boots to be a rite of passage . All Senior Boots are custom - made to fit the cadet and are a dark tan to brown color . Students wear their Senior Boots for the first time after Final Review as juniors while saluting the outgoing seniors . Final review is the last activity that Corps members participate in as a unit . This full military review takes place at the end of the spring semester on Simpson Drill Field, and is in two parts . The entire Corps march past a reviewing stand, which consists of high - ranking military and university officials, for inspection . The Corps then returns to their dorms to change into the uniforms they will wear the following year, with the juniors donning their Senior Boots . The freshmen, sophomores, and juniors then march in formation past the reviewing stand, which is now filled with the senior cadets, saluting their former leaders . </P> <P> The Fightin' Texas Aggie Band (also known as The Noble Men of Kyle, The Pulse of Aggieland or the Aggie Band) is the official marching band of Texas A&M University . Composed of over 400 men and women from the school's Corps of Cadets, it is the largest military marching band in the world . The band's complex straight - line marching maneuvers are performed exclusively to traditional marches . Some of these maneuvers are so complex, some computer programs used to create marching drills say they cannot be performed because they require two people to be in the same place at the same time . </P> <P> Since its inception in 1894, its members, known as BQs (for Band Qualified or Band Queer), eat together, sleep in the same dormitories, and practice up to 40 hours per week on top of a full academic schedule . The Aggie Band performs at all home football games, some away games, and university and Corps functions throughout the year . Other events in which the band participated include inauguration parades for many United States Presidents and Texas Governors, major annual parades across the country, and the dedication ceremony for the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library . </P>

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