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...armed forces are experiencing in recruiting qualified young people these days, we think his experiences and impressions are worth sharing. Here is the fourth missive; others will be posted as they arrive. I just got myself dropped. As in push-ups. As in on the floor of the drill sergeant's office while the afternoon football game - oh, the outside world! - murmured off to the left. "Ged down dere," he drawled in his Philippines twang, and we did, me and my bunkmate, the one who'd gotten us in trouble in the first place. The one I'd insisted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yes, Sergeant — It Is Night and I Am Jogging | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

...signed that X. One guy I talked to had failed at a rare bit of exercise and had been sent to "fat camp," whereupon he passed the test the very next day. Three weeks later he was still there, sweeping up after the other detainees and hiding from the drill sergeants' school next door (fat camp and a steady stream of newly anointed drill sergeants make for fun times, apparently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yes, Sergeant — It Is Night and I Am Jogging | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

PROVIDENCE, R.I.--In a match that often looked like a sluggish Crimson shooting drill, Harvard blanked Brown 4-0 in front of a crowd of 200 to capture its fourth Ivy crown in five years...

Author: By Peter D. Henninger, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: W. Soccer Claims Ivy Crown | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...When schools can nurture such comprehensive learning in small groups, experts say the results can be excellent (even when the kids eat the lesson). But for schools with fewer resources, teachers have to do much more instructing from the front of the class and employ methods they describe as "drill and kill"--because they often kill the kids' enthusiasm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kinder Grind | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...inch black comb. Am I going to have to ask them to shave my head? Elvis didn't, but then again he wasn't exactly volunteering either. I am assured by almost everyone that all the volunteering - the optional stuff - will cease with the first parting of my drill sergeant's lips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He's in the Army Now. Well, Almost... | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

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