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...have launched two new magazines, Guns & Action and Combat Weapons, in the past year. He views the country's recent outbreak of Rambomania as proof that the climate is improving for his brand of journalism. Even though Soldier of Fortune is always certain to draw hoots of disapproval, the Colonel is not the kind to care. Ambling through the office in faded jeans and T shirt, cracking jokes with editors, squirting streams of chewing tobacco into strategically placed spittoons, Bob Brown is happy in his work. "I get to do things that nobody else can," he says. "Vacation...
...mention was made of either the Bomb or the Emperor. Radio Tokyo broadcast that the Japanese government would treat the warning with "silent contempt." On the island of Tinian that day, a 300-lb. lead cylinder with a core of enriched uranium was being transferred to the headquarters of Colonel Paul Tibbets' 509th Composite Group...
...purpose of overloading cadets, says History Professor Lieut. Colonel Robert Doughty, is to "teach them to prioritize under stress, to learn what is important and what is not." The pressure also teaches selflessness by creating a kind of foxhole camaraderie in the corps. "Cooperate and graduate" is an unofficial cadet motto. The deep bonding between cadets has survived the entry of women, who now make up 11% of the corps of cadets. "At first, a lot of guys say, 'What are women doing here?' " says Cadet Borgerding. "But they become buddies...
...cadet will not "lie, cheat or steal, nor tolerate those who do," according to West Point's honor code. "Here in everything we do, we talk of honor," says Colonel James Anderson, the master of the sword (director of physical education). When an instructor orders "Cease work" in an exam, cadets literally throw down their pencils, as if they had become instantly hot to the touch. A cadet tennis-squad player who hurls his racquet in a match is off the team...
...proud of their vocation. Perhaps most important, today as in the past, is that its graduates endeavor to live the West Point motto, no small feat in a nation often racked with doubts about its military duties and responsibilities. "We really believed in 'Duty-Honor-Country,' " says retired Colonel John Wheeler Jr., class of '42, "and we still do. The place gets hold of you. When I marched in my first parade I broke down and cried." Open-minded and unafraid to criticize West Point, Cadet Captain Lissa Young is hardly a military martinet. Yet old grads will...