Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...begin a pilot-training program in which women will fly C-130 Hercules hospital or weather-reconnaissance planes and T-39 trainer jets. The Air Force has women in fatigues maintaining and repairing missiles, airplanes and weapons. The Army has women chaplains, helicopter pilots and tank drivers and 136 drill instructors. The Navy has anti-submarine warfare technicians, line handlers on tugboats, airplane welders, bulldozer operators and a deep-sea diver. All recruits go through rugged basic training, learning to shoot and strip rifles (just in case they ever have to in an emergency) and slog through mud, with full...
...industry, a traditional bastion of Republican strength, is bitterly opposed to the bill. Oilmen argue that a price cut in crude oil would reduce the incentive to drill wells in search of new sources of supply. Reagan has urged the President to veto the bill. At week's end Ford's closest advisers were still not certain whether the President would turn down the bill, thereby repudiating Zarb and angering millions of Americans who drive cars or heat their homes with oil. The odds that Congress would overturn a veto are too close to call...
...that note, Bob Richards, wearing his brown mesh Rindge Coach T-shirt, screams "Elevens!" and watches as Russell and about 25 other hopefuls reassemble for the final drill of the day's basketball practice...
...going on; his taunts are, significantly, not echoed by anyone else. Yet here their silence condemns the bystanders; and the final touch to the mishandling of the scene comes when the Duke pronounces his pardon, snarling out forgiveness in a voice somewhere between Don Rickles and a marine drill sergeant...
Four N.C.O.s have been convicted by courts-martial, and the number is certain to grow. Three of those found guilty were drill instructors at Fort Jackson, S.C. Last week the Army reported that Sergeant First Class David Mitchell had been broken to private and sentenced to five years at hard labor, after which he will be dishonorably discharged. Mitchell, 35, was the first soldier to stand trial for the massacre of Vietnamese civilians at My Lai, and was acquitted in 1970. At Fort Jackson he threatened some trainees with punishment if they did not pay him off-and recommended others...