Word: booted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Blumenthal's formal nomination, which should come within the next several weeks, will draw him from Marine Corps Reserve boot camp at Parris Island, S.C. If approved by the Senate for his $38,000-a-year job, he will be the youngest man to hold a Presidential appointment at that level. Blumenthal is 24 years...
...being tried out with two battalions of trainees (about 2,500 men), Fort Ord's merit program eliminates the most egregious indignities of the old-style boot camp. Arriving trainees are greeted courteously, not chivvied into their first formation by snarling sergeants. In place of the customary head shaving, they are given a choice of three suggested hair styles. Nor must they tolerate the name-calling and physical threats that have characterized basic training till now. Along with their green fatigues, recruits are issued laminated plastic "merit cards" on which their instructors can punch up to 50 points...
...area has dropped. The V.C. gets his weapons at the store in Cambodia, and if the store is closed, he can't get the goods. And that, my fellow Americans, puts Charlie in a bind. He is now running. (How about a size 9½ tropical combat boot in that mouth...
Also Suedeheads. Their hair is shaved to within an eighth of an inch from the scalp, and they are dress in oversized workpants, thin red suspenders and hobnailed, steel-toed boots costing about$10 and known as "cherry reds." The skinheads are lineal descendants of the rockers-with an added touch of mindless savagery. When their hair grows a frifle longer, they refer to themselves as suedeheads. Skins or suedes, they specialize in terrorizing such menacing types as hippies and homosexuals, Pakistani immigrants and little old ladies. "Hairies," those with long hair or hippie-style clothing, are their particular enemies...
...more to the lip of Cone Crater, where they may find very ancient debris from the huge meteor impact that created the Sea of Rains some 300 miles away. Their most unusual exercise will probably be Haise's "footprint caper," during which he will plant his boot in a pile of soil and photograph the imprint. Purpose: to study the clinging power of moon dust...