Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mold "boots" (Navy lingo for recruits) into the indefinable likeness of a Marine takes hard work on a rigid regimen; close order drill, combat exercises, firing on the range that goes with every Marine camp, endless heckling by N. C. O.s until the recruits learn to keep their eyes front, their chins in, their chests out. (Because in early days Marines wore high leather stocks that kept their heads up, sailors nicknamed them "leathernecks.") To mold a boot into the traditions of the Corps, to fire him with the conviction that a Marine is better than any other fighting...
...drill corps has been virtually dropped from the scheme under consideration, since a spontaneous demand for it is lacking. The extent of the lecture program and special courses is conditioned on the response the first experimental offerings receive...
...Pass Drill...
...Gardiner sparked a spirited signal drill yesterday afternoon as the squad went through the last heavy workout before the Indian tussle. A long passing drill with Captain Gardella, Spreyer and McNicol doing the pitching followed by forty minutes of defensive work against the Big Green plays made up the bulk of the practice...
Lineups for the signal drill: "A" "B" MacKinney, l.e. l.e., Barnes Elser, l.t. l.t., Miller Psesbody, l.g. l.g., Aldrish Ayres, c. c., Dietz Pflster, r.g. r.g., Ferris, Lowry Gardiner, r.t. r.t., Durwood Morgan, r.e. r.e., Koufman Heiden, q.b. q.b., Lyman McNicol, l.h. l.h., Spreyer Lee, r.h. r.h., Gordon Gardella, f.b. f.b., Brown, Waldstein