Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Being the huge organization that it is, the army fans out into thousands of specialties, so I can't talk on common ground for long. If you land in one of Miami Beach's super "barracks," basking, bathing, and sweating out a daily eight hours of drill, you will have the various ground crew jobs spread before...
This conservatism was not a lack of daring. It was due to smart soldiering and to Lou Kirn's emphasis on drill, drill, drill. Bullet Lou Kirn will be proudest of his men if they go through the war killing Japs with this saying in the back of their heads: "I don't want to be the best pilot, I just want to be the oldest...
...duty," they spend five weeks in preliminary training. Then they are given eight weeks' specialized training as seamen, firemen, water tenders, oilers, messmen, cooks, bakers, clerks and pharmacist's mates. Trainees are taught to handle themselves in a lifeboat, spend a total of 90 hours on lifeboat drill alone...
...Jovial, snow-thatched Albert J. McCray, 71, was not only a Townsendite but a Ham 'n' Egger ("Oh, boy, was I a booster for that!"). Now he runs a drill press at the Douglas plant, earns $51 a week with Sunday overtime, complains only that his foreman refuses to let him work every Sunday. Says Albert McCray: "I haven't been to the club there in some little bit. I'd rather have a job than a pension any time. Why, I'm making better than $175 a month here, more money than I ever...
...absolute pacifism," admitted President Felix Morley last week, and agreed to become part of the Army's nationwide chain of "little West Points." Young Army privates, 18 to 21, will take preliminary scientific training for commissions as meteorologists in the Army Air Forces at Haverford, will live and drill in uniform on its pacific campus...