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When Bob Gingrich rotated back to Fort Benning, Georgia, Newt attended Baker High School in nearby Columbus. He quickly earned a reputation as brainy and eccentric. At Baker High, he emceed the school talent show, rattling off a string of corny jokes. The kids started booing. But he stayed cocky. If they didn't like a joke, throw money, he told the audience. He walked off the stage with $19. Newt was voted "Most Intellectual" in his senior class. In the high school yearbook, the quote under his picture read "Specialization may produce success, but greatness is acquired only through...
...enough to qualify him for a course in computer programming that he hoped to take, and he eventually enlisted in the U.S. Army. He served in the 1991 Gulf War as a Bradley fighting vehicle gunner and immediately thereafter volunteered for the Special Forces (Green Beret) qualification course at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. But he didn't make the grade and left the Army in 1ate 1991 with sergeant's rank and an honorable discharge...
Reacting quickly to the shooting death of a black man and woman in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and the arrest of three white Fort Bragg soldiers, two of whom authorities have identified as skinheads, the Army ordered a sweeping investigation into the extent of extremist activities among its troops...
Wrestling at Sunshine Open (at Fort Lauderdale...
...force. Davis and Blankeley have two small sons, eight-year-old Spencer and six-year-old Trevor. "She's going away for about a year," reports Mark Thompson. "It is not clear yet whether Davis, a military press officer, will be sent to Bosnia. First she will go to Fort Benning, and from there to Germany. This suggests that the military has reached a point that is long overdue. If you're eligible to go, position and privilege are no exceptions." Davis told the Washington Post that she and her family celebrated Christmas early this year, noting that being called...