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Janie was heartened by her instructor's insistence that he had taught women to weld during the war and that for some reason they made better welders than men. Naturally she had her problems. "One day I was welding with loafers on, and a spark went down into my shoes. I had to stick my foot into a nearby bucket of water. After that I wore boots with...
Only Basics. An instructor leads the recruits in bayonet practice with padded protective clothing. Teams of six men on each side lunge back and forth at each other shouting, red-faced and sweating. Another group practices taking apart and setting up an 82-mm. mortar. Another instructor conducts a discussion with a small group on how to destroy an M-47 American tank, using a scale model and shouting his lesson in clear, hard tones...
...Have you all met Mr. Chick? Well then I needn't tell you his gig. An ex-Marine karate instructor and just then they lead Terry in and Mr. Chick sucks in the air his cheeks are puffed out and his eyes bug out and his shoulders draw back in the classical Chick and all of the sudden the little man with the beerbelly is a hulking 30 pounds bigger, a devil bird about to tear apart the cop station and Terry has this big bruise over his eye you know, either from running into a branch drunk...
...help remedy this defect, the faculty at Chicago's Columbia College, a small, obscure liberal arts school, will try to coax returning veterans to put their experience on paper. The college is offering a writing course called Psychology of War: the Combat Experience. Started by Instructor Larry Heinemann, 28, who commanded an armored personnel carrier in Viet Nam, the course is open to any student with combat experience. Says Heinemann: "Only combat veterans can talk about combat, because it is so alien, so dehumanizing, so decivilizing...
...SEMINAR, the last of the term, began poorly. The instructor, a tall sort of guy, held eight inches of cigarette in his mouth, wrote unnecessary the blackboard, and spent most of time reading from a book. Midway his reading a 6'6" giant burst noisily room, looked around, and dropped chair. The tail of his coat caught on back of the chair as he sat down, above shoulder level when he finally a comfortable position. An aisle in front , a woman perched an unlit extralong cigarette in her as if to imitate the seminar smokers greeted the instructor's about...