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...According to Wednesday's USA Today, boot camp ain't what it used to be. At Fort Jackson, S.C., the Army's largest basic training facility, attrition rates, which stood at 23 percent in December 1998, are expected to dip below 10 percent. The recruits aren't any better - it's the training that's become more merciful, holding on to would-be dropouts with "a raft of programs to help woebegone trainees graduate...
...enlightenment of philosophy. In the age of push-button wars and untold desk jobs, isn't the Army just being smart by being patient? Or is a 10 percent failure rate - from serious injury or mental incompatibility, usually - an insult to the supposed test of mettle that boot camp was once supposed...
...learns most of them by spying on people: visiting their workplaces, watching them make purchases and, in the case of one of his clients, Burton Snowboards, riding down Vermont mountains to come up with the inspiration for a new form for boot bindings...
...there's no other way to create 100-foot waves and stuff like that. Maybe it could have been a little easier, but we wanted to go for reality and do it as real as possible. I'm a little bit experienced with that kind of filmmaking from "Das Boot," and in that film when we had depth charges detonating around the submarine or that stuff, we also worked with a huge gimbal. It was really frightening, but I just loved it. The actors like it too because it's not bad to have something really tough to fight against...
...however, missed an episode. "That older guy that got killed off the show last week deserved it. You just don't wash your clothes in the fresh-water supply," he says, referring to the transgression that helped get Andersen the boot. (Note: Losers are not actually executed, but Fox hasn't worked up a knockoff series yet.) "Don't vote me off the island!" is rivaling "Is that your final answer?" as a red flag for water-cooler bores. And last week CBS announced a Survivor sequel, set in the Australian outback...