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...physical intimidation to mortify--and motivate--trainees. These days drill sergeants spend more time mentoring than menacing. "We're no longer the charge-the-beach, stogie-in-the-mouth, cussing, hard-drinking, woman-chasing, World War II guy," says Senior Master Sergeant Paula Byrnes, who supervises basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. As the military's technology has grown more sophisticated, she says, the need for traditional warriors, trained in traditional ways, has waned. "The more technologically advanced we get," says Byrnes, "the less overtly brutal we need...
...consensual sex with three recruits and of trying to have sex with two other women, while two officers await court-martial and 10 other cases are pending there. An Air Force general revealed that over the past three years, eight male instructors have been disciplined for harassment at the Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. And the San Antonio Express-News reported that at a medic school at Fort Sam Houston, five sergeants were disciplined for fraternization and wild behavior on a February bus trip to Mexico...
...owner. The Government does not, of course, discriminate between males and females, but equal-opportunity laws are bypassed when it comes to breeding; recruitment is limited to such watchful species as German shepherds and Rottweilers. The "military working dogs" are shipped to Texas for basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, where they learn obedience, mauling, snarling, sniffing and other suitable skills. In the new armed forces, the routine is hardly a dog's life. An animal psychologist is on hand if basic training becomes too tough...
Stanford, 49, was chief of cardiac surgery at the Lackland Air Force Base medical center near San Antonio. The military hospital has a good reputation, and so did the University of Iowa-trained surgeon when he arrived there in 1965. In 1977, however, Dr. Gary Akins, a subordinate, began wondering about Stanford's abilities. He studied an 18-month period and found that 43% of Stanford's patients, 17 in all, had died during or shortly after their operations; the hospital average was 6%. Akins says his study was sent to Stanford's boss, General Paul Myers...
...stinging 24-page opinion, Judge Terence Evans said: "He was rough, sometimes careless. He did not possess good medical judgment." The Air Force transfer from Lackland to Milwaukee, the judge suspected, was a way "to get Dr. Stanford off its hands for a while to prohibit scandal and further dissension among the doctors." The $1.8 million award must be paid by the Government under existing law. As for Stanford, he has retired from the military and practices at the highly rated Miami Heart Institute. Myers is now surgeon general of the Air Force, its top-ranking medical officer...