Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stated aim of the gas chamber is "mass confidence, not mass punishment." Confidence in yourself. In your drill sergeants and in these M40-series gas masks the Army issues you. In case of Saddam...
...your name, rank and Social Security number, and choke on the whiff you get when you do. Clear your mask - a puff out through the one-way mouth hole - and you're back in the pink, congratulating yourself on your fortitude and staring quizzically at the masked-and-gloved drill sergeants burning the CS sticks, wondering if the drama of this boot camp ordeal, like so many others, had been oversold...
Within seconds, I could see nothing but that heavenly-bright doorway and the flashing forms of several panickers as they threw themselves at drill sergeants and generally mucked up our line to get out. (They would try to make light of it later.) Some held their breath and closed their eyes, and got off easy. My plan was to breathe deep - take their best shot - and moan, moan, moan until it all went away, and not do anything to dislodge the big lunch the drill sergeants had gleefully served us just minutes before. It worked - that night I had less...
...Salle, however, ran its own version of the two-minute drill, scoring nine points as the half wound down before Johnson, who made the all-tournament team, hit a jumper to give Harvard a 45-33 lead at halftime...
...impossible to find. Go to the latrine at three in the morning and you find two soldiers, up on the guard shift, polishing their boots in the shower and murmuring in Spanish. Go anywhere - I mean anywhere - without a "battle buddy" and you're at the mercy of any drill sergeant who happens by; technically you can be considered AWOL for walking past the barracks alone. Inside, there is someone everywhere; outside, the PX across the street is unattainable without a whole platoon of your fellow soldiers and a drill sergeant or two to help them in line...