Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After 1918's Armistice Day, the doughboys of World War I spent much of their time cursing General Order 241. On the theory of completing the troops' training, Order 241 called for six solid hours of drill a day-to keep the doughboys busy enough and tired enough. World War II's brass hats have a better idea: a whopping sport program...
...Right to Gripe. Bernstein's most unpredictable tour of duty was with the actors (as press agent) of This Is the Army. At drill, intimidated sergeants would hesitate to give the order "Fall Out" because of the three or four irrepressibles who obeyed by falling flat on their faces. One day an ex-vaudevillian was assigned to calisthenic drill. "Inhale!" he shouted. The men inhaled. "Outhale!" They outhaled. "Sidehale!" "What the hell is that?" a regular corporal demanded. "A new breathing method. Field Manual 36-B, with Kreplach...
...word on "Iron" Phil Masquelette. His weekends are spent seeing twin bills at the N.T.S. movie followed by two hours of open order drill. We understand old Sam Wolfe it better reached by asking for "the voice," up on the fourth deck. Shifting the scene to the fishing industry, we found Messrs. Unsinn, Vadakin, Vance, and Violand tripping the line fantastic, greys and all, in that order...
...They have to go through such antics as calisthenics and close-order drill (to harden them up, explains the Army...
...packed off to Camp Roberts, Cal. There he continued to make his views clear. He refused to obey orders and was court-martialed and given six months in the clink. Released for good behavior, he refused to drill with his squad. "I would rather be shot," he declared. Instead, he was court-martialed again and sentenced to be hanged...