Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Army training methods are excellent. At Fort Jackson, S.C., last week, Company B, 2nd Battalion, ist Training Regiment fidgeted in new, stiff fatigues and listened to Sergeant Delma Stanfill bark out the basic facts about a gas mask. At the end of the drill, after they had practiced donning the mask, another sergeant tested them by dropping smoke and tear gas grenades near by. About 20 of the basic trainees bolted in terror for the woods. In the past, trainees have cried for their mothers. But, after this first day of panic, most of the trainees complete the tough, eight...
...Jump Again." At the 82nd Airborne's jump school at Fort Bragg, N.C., last week, a trainee leaped from a 35-ft. tower and was jerked up like a marionette by the wire attached to his shoulder harness. When he reached the ground, the trainee's lips were flecked with blood. The instructor ignored it. "Your exit was too quick and you didn't keep your elbows in," he snapped. "Jump again." Near by a captain walking behind a row of trainees suddenly barked: "Hit it!" The men bowed seemingly in unison and shouted: "Airborne!" But four...
...Fort Campbell, Ky., the 101st Airborne is as ready to go as a sprinter braced on the starting blocks. Everything the division owns can be carried by air except the barracks: 25-ton M41 tanks, antitank guns, Jeeps, the "mechanical mule" (a kind of motorized flatbed wagon), field kitchens, ground radar, and the 15-mile Honest John rocket, which can be fitted with a nuclear warhead. One company (300 men) is always ready to move out within an hour; an entire battle group (1,800 men) can be on its way in four. Every morning, every man on alert assumes...
...mediocre 185th in his class of 276 upon graduation in 1936. That year Abrams married an athletic, auburn-haired Vassar graduate named Julia Harvey, who regularly drove him to distraction by trouncing him in tennis, and began his Army career on horseback in the ist Cavalry stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas...
...Kansas Turnpike in an hour and 50 minutes (v. 4½ hr. over the old 170.4-mile highway); Massachusetts truckers can make the New York State line from Boston in 159 minutes over the Massachusetts Turnpike (v. 245 minutes over Routes 9, 20 and 102); the 30-mile Dallas-Fort Worth Turnpike has cut travel time from 90 minutes to about 35. A New York state legislator can drive from Manhattan to Albany in less than three hours. A man who does not feel the need of sleep or coffee breaks can drive from Boston to Chicago in less than...