Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days a week: drill, drill and still more drill...
...other practical suggestions. "You have to keep calling parents. You have to keep trying to get homework done." She also believes in sentence diagraming and drill. "They can disregard it later on, but it only becomes part of you later on if you drill now." To discourage predictable student alibis like "I forgot my book" or "I lost my pencil," Becker spends her own money to keep an extra supply of paper and pencils on hand. She always has extra textbooks on her desk...
...Army guidelines call for retaining about 38 of every 100 soldiers with four years' service for at least six more years; only 30 of the 100 now stay in uniform that long. The shortfall is particularly serious among technicians, weapons specialists and drill sergeants. At Fort Benning, for example, much of today's training is done by drill corporals (and even acting drill corporals); these are recruits who have just completed their own basic training...
...more brothers in uniform. Men can escape induction for reasons of conscience, but they must perform socially useful tasks. Italian conscientious objectors, for example, may serve in the medical corps or work in a civilian defense plant. Such compassion, however, is unknown in Switzerland, where men continue to drill every year in the standing militia. The " Swiss jail all who balk at military service and impose a special exemption tax, averaging $150 a year, for those excused on medical or other grounds...
Then came the all-volunteer army and Cerce gradually became demoralized. A drill sergeant at Fort Dix, N.J., he saw instruction worsen and discipline decline. "These days we're just fooling around," says Cerce bitterly. "Basic training is a joke. My twelve-year-old daughter could go through it and pass...