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Meanwhile, the military, eager to appear vigilant, disclosed a number of similar incidents at other bases. A drill sergeant at the Fort Leonard Wood training ground in Missouri pleaded guilty to charges of having consensual sex with three recruits and of trying to have sex with two other women, while two officers await court-martial and 10 other cases are pending there. An Air Force general revealed that over the past three years, eight male instructors have been disciplined for harassment at the Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. And the San Antonio Express-News reported that...
...involve relationships that occurred between trainees and their direct commanders within the same company of the 143rd Battalion--a violation of one of the cardinal rules of the military, which forbids even consensual sex between a superior and subordinate in the same chain of command. Moreover, the relationship between drill sergeants and new recruits is one of the most highly charged in the military. Assuming authority that falls somewhere between in loco parentis and God, a training cadre must mold vulnerable young men and women--many of them barely out of their teens and away from home for the first...
...gift wrap a house will roll above the Interstate leading into Russell; the marquee of the Dream Cinema on Main Street will welcome him home. After the fourth campaign, it is almost a scripted event; the original Dolls for Dole will be there, along with the band and the drill team and the junior rotc and the guys from the VFW post. The people of Russell will all come out, glad to do what they have done before, to welcome him home and, if need be, put him back together...
...until 1985, when Honda and Nissan were already producing cars in the U.S., did Toyota decide to build the Georgetown plant. The company has since been at pains to avoid such stereotypes as those spoofed in the 1986 Michael Keaton comedy, Gung Ho, which depicted Japanese managers holding fire drill-like pep rallies and speeding up assembly lines to a Chaplinesque frenzy. Toyota responded in methodical fashion: it bought copies of the film to show Japanese managers how not to behave in American factories...
...been at Harvard for any significant length of time, you've unfortunately been through the drill. You enroll in a large Core or departmental course, find your name among dozens of other students on the section list and appear at the appointed hour in Sever Hall. Maybe you're a little late, and so when you open the door to the room, you see that not only are all the seats at the small table occupied, but the free-standing desks are full. People are sitting on the floor...