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...other three services--tougher and cheaper, Leathernecks like to say--and that attitude is reflected in their boot camp. While the other branches have relaxed their training, last year the corps stretched boot camp from 11 weeks to 12. "This is not making things easier," says General Charles Krulak, the Marine Commandant. "This is making things tougher--physically, mentally and morally." Unlike the other branches, the Marines have also refused to mix men and women in basic training, which angers some who believe that it shortchanges women. Each sex trains the same way, but physical requirements for women are less...
Still, many Marines say boot camp is easier than they expected. And even if it was too tough for boxer Riddick Bowe--he dropped out after 11 days last February--recruits are not immune to society's trends. Krulak, for example, has had to ban the practice, popular among some male Marines, of wearing fingernail polish...
...Marines now trumpet matrimony. Four years ago, General Carl Mundy, Krulak's predecessor, was denounced for trying to bar married Marine recruits. But earlier this year, the corps heralded the wedding of a young Marine couple that left for boot camp at Parris Island shortly after they exchanged vows. "We'd see each other when our formations passed each other," recalls Private Sarah Wallace of Sioux City, Iowa, the uniformed bride...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The search for a replacement candidate to head the Joint Chiefs has moved into high gear. Top contenders include Admiral Joseph Lopez, commander of NATO's southern flank; Army General Wesley Clark, commander of U.S. forces in Central and South America; Marine Corps Commandant General Charles Krulak and Army General George A. Joulwan. Defense Secretary Cohen, who must find a suitable nominee before General John Shalikashvili retires from the post in September, has said he would probably send President Clinton a recommendation in a few weeks. But Pentagon officials concede that all potential nominees will face a once...
General Charles Krulak, the head of the Marine Corps, has been busy denouncing the brutal September 1991 blood-pinning ritual recently seen on television. Last week, in fact, Krulak wrote a letter to the parents of all his young soldiers declaring that "tradition in the Marine Corps has nothing whatsoever to do with hurting or humiliating each other." But Mom and Pop might not be so reassured if they knew that until two months before the incident, Krulak headed the unit in which the bloody hazing took place. He commanded the 2nd Force Service Support Group at Camp Lejeune, North...