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...military training of the chaplains has included everything from foot drill to grave registration. Map reading, de-fence against chemical warfare, and military law, in addition to a chaplain's duty at the front, has been taught them...
They must have sufficient knowledge of Army habits to enable them to act as part of a regimental staff. They must not be soft, so conditioning classes and drill have been part of their training. Army life in grim reality has overtaken them, for reveille sounds each morning at 6:30 o'clock...
Tall (6 ft. 3), slim, shy Howard Robard Hughes is a rich man's son: his father invented a high-speed oil drill, left a multimillion-dollar fortune. But Howard Hughes has never coasted on his inheritance. He showed a technician's touch even in boyhood, built his own motorcycle and radio set, invented a pretty good shock absorber, got admitted to California Institute of Technology for special courses before he was old enough to enroll as a regular student...
Wednesday afternoon 800 officers of the Naval Training Schools at Harvard, including the 500 who will graduate this morning, participated in their final drill on Soldiers Field as they were reviewed for the first time by Captain George N. Barker, commanding officer of the Harvard Training Schools...
After combat team drill has been practiced and mastered by the unit, Grant plans to undertake actual problems frequently met with in guerrilla warfare...