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...some great firsthand experience in the Marine Corps, but it’s a different world out in the civilian world,” he said. “What business school does is complement your military skills with skills they teach you. It adds more tools to your kitbag...

Author: By Charles R. Melvoin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Here from Over There | 4/18/2007 | See Source »

...message had been the go-ahead for the advertising posters; that he faced possible court-martial.* Instead, Reasoner's punishment was reassignment-not in the European Theater. Last week, while he was in London awaiting transportation to a new assignment. Reasoner lost $140 in cash, had his kitbag stolen and learned that the dog he left in London had gone off with somebody named Jerry. Said Reasoner: "I'm just an eight-ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: An American in Paris | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

Perhaps you never will-unless and until some Navy man you know comes home from a coral atoll in the South Seas or a far-away base in Iceland with a dog-eared copy of V-Mail TIME tucked into his kitbag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 18, 1944 | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

...first the destroyer saw nothing more than the flotsam of defeat-empty gasoline cans, a soldier's kitbag floating, part of the landing gear of a German transport plane held up by a bloated balloon tire, a rubber raft on which a dead Nazi airman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE MEDITERRANEAN: This Waterway | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

Every day thousands of parcels addressed "For the guerrillas" arrive in Moscow. Collective farmers of Siberia recently sent 4,000 packages. Each contained kitbag, leather boots, raincoat, tobacco, knives, compass. From the remote Arctic island of Novaya Zemlya came parcels of furs and dried fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Fenimore Cooper Stories. | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

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