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...Majesty's Army had a volunteer: the Duke of Kent, 17-year-old first cousin of Queen Elizabeth and seventh in succession to the throne. In October he will become the first member of the royal family ever to enter the ranks as a private. After pre-cadet training, he will take the examinations for Sandhurst, Britain's West Point, hoping to make the army his career (preferably as a tank officer...
...Stockly took to the air. He was accepted as a flying cadet in 1929, went to Brooks Field, Texas, where he managed to get through primary, cross-country, formation and night-flight training before he was washed out as being "unmilitary in character, too individualistic to fit into the Army." Shortly thereafter, Stockly's father, who was ill, took the family to Tucson. With no depression jobs available, Stockly entered the University of Arizona for postgraduate work in French and other romance languages, learned to read French almost as fluently as English...
When General Charles P. Summerall took over the presidency of South Carolina's Military College (The Citadel) in 1932, there was not a soldier or cadet in the land who had not heard of him. Armed with his famed credo, the "artillery exists only to protect and support the infantry," he had commanded the Fifth Army Corps in World War I, later became chief of staff. The Citadel was honored to have such a man at its head-and the school was never to be quite the same again...
...last week, part of his own life came to an end: at 86, still ramrod straight, he told The Citadel that he was leaving. "I have," said he, "loved The Citadel as I have loved no other institution. What the future holds I do not know." Remarked one cadet, quoting from the plebes' traditional reply to upperclassmen: "May your classes be soirees and your sorrows negligible and on your leave may there be some beautiful femmes, some canoes, lots of skags, full moons, and plenty of Coca-Cola...
Thirty-six years ago, as a cadet at the Royal Naval College, I saw the "mad major" test an incredible looking crate called a triplane- three wings, one below the other-top wing long, second shorter, third shortest. About 10,000 feet up over Spithead (the strip of water separating the mainland from the Isle of Wight) he made that crate do every trick . . . then put it in a dive and on the way down executed three close loops-one after the other...