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...Army guidelines call for retaining about 38 of every 100 soldiers with four years' service for at least six more years; only 30 of the 100 now stay in uniform that long. The shortfall is particularly serious among technicians, weapons specialists and drill sergeants. At Fort Benning, for example, much of today's training is done by drill corporals (and even acting drill corporals); these are recruits who have just completed their own basic training...
With a mere seven seconds to go in the second quarter, Meagher took a feed from Forbush, turned on the drill, and put the Crimson out in front for good with the first of his game-high five goals...
Curtin hurled scoreless ball the rest of the way, aiding his own cause by picking two slumbering Rams off first base. Add those to the one Sorich nabbed in the fourth, and you can bet URI coach John Norris will hold baserunning drill tomorrow, rain or shine...
PIERCE stuck open, and some steam generators boiled dry within minutes. Today, operators drill to handle multiple failures, and all 2,500 licensed reactor operators in the U.S. have gone through the sequence that occurred at T.M.I. In Soddy-Daisy, Term., an annual two-week refresher course covering multiple breakdowns is offered by the Tennessee Valley Authority...
...Judge Theodore H. Miller had a small problem. He was accidentally locked outside his chambers in Des Moines, Iowa. While a defendant and his attorney patiently waited, Miller summoned the janitor, who tried every trick he knew to unlock the door: a passkey, a credit card, even a small drill. No luck...