HEY MOM AND DAD: CHECK THIS OUT.  AEROBICS BY THE DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT...BEFORE YOU FINISHED YOUR FIRST CUP OF MORNING COFFEE!

aer·o·bics
Pronunciation: -biks
Function: noun plural
1singular or plural in construction: a system of physical conditioning involving exercises (as running, walking, swimming, or calisthenics) strenuously performed so as to cause marked temporary increase in respiration and heart rate

...or something like that!  At least, that's the challenge according to Cadet Mom Rhonda Bowen, Aerobics Instructor.  Every Tuesday and Thursday morning following Reveille, Mrs. Bowen hauls her Aerobics platform, music and loudspeakers out onto Battalion Street, campers and instructors (including MMA Superintendent Colonel R.G. Hill and Commandant SgtMaj Kinsley, USMC (Ret)!) join in on totally unsychronized windmills, squats, situps--all designed to get the heart pumping and everyone's motor revved up for another GREAT day ahead.