Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while the men must be on their best behavior, the school is warning the ladies not to expect a cake walk. Banned are lipstick, jewelry and ? sorry guys ? dating upperclassmen. The women must also live in the same barren dorm rooms and sport the same stuffy drill uniforms as men. Despite the rigid conditions, VMI wasn't beyond a little generosity. As the women arrived on campus today, each received a stylish buzz cut on the house...
...discourage physical abuse, which was once tolerated though never sanctioned, drill sergeants are forbidden to so much as touch recalcitrant recruits in an effort to get them to perform. "Stress created by physical or verbal abuse is non-productive and prohibited," says the Army's training manual. "Drill sergeants used to be able to discipline soldiers on the spot when they misbehaved," McQueen says. "But now you can't even touch them to check their ammunition...
...training in 1982 after a five-year attempt--too many women were injured and too many men complained that training with women wasn't tough enough--then reinstating it in 1994. While Army officials insist it's going well this time, reports from the field suggest caution. "Some male drill sergeants said standards had to be lowered to accommodate females, especially for physical training," a new Army report says. "They felt they could not go 'full bore...
...other branches, the corps also discovered it had to begin educating recruits about fundamental values after 22 Marines were implicated in the 1991 Tailhook scandal and a pair were found guilty in the 1995 rape of an Okinawan schoolgirl. Drill instructors and recruits now have long talks on morality and choices. "We're teaching them how to think, rather than telling them what to think,"says Staff Sergeant Steven Manzo, a drill instructor at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot at Parris Island...
...general store. I liked this detail. It brought the man alive for me. Unlike Brigham Young, the stern puritan who succeeded him, Smith was an improviser, a boyish mystic, brimming with charismatic, homegrown visions. In the fields beyond his store, he liked to dress up as a general and drill his personal army, the Nauvoo Legion. In 1844, the year he was murdered, he announced a quixotic candidacy for the U.S. presidency. All in all, it was as if Huck Finn had founded a major religion...