Word: martials
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Space-age hardware like Nike drove the Army into a search for skilled manpower. In "Operation Meathead" (1957-59), the Army discharged 75,000 untrainables, as a byproduct cut stockade (prison) population from 6,300 to 1,500. slashed its overall courts-martial rate 22%. Its multimillion-dollar education program in 1957-58 qualified 40,000 enlisted men for high-school diplomas, by 1962 will put 1,200 in colleges. Half of the Army officers who do not have college degrees have signed up for courses. RANGERS FOR TOUGHNESS...
...loose on a flock. Says the Rev. Peter Curgenven, General Secretary of the Central Advisory Council, which is in charge of training the swelling ranks of officer-clerics: "These chaps have to learn that they can't issue orders for people to turn up at church-or court-martial habitual sinners...
While Romeo and Juliet made shy love in the corner, a file of bare-chested men in pajama pants and motorcycling helmets marched on the stage to the martial roll of drums. Guns began to chatter, and Romeo toppled, a bullet in his heart. Orpheus appeared in slacks and V-necked shirt, turned to the audience with a bewildered...
Cheers to the P.O.A.U. and their efforts to stamp out patron saints in the U.S. Army. With the Army courts-martial and delinquency rate being reduced and prisons being closed after a general improvement of G.I. standards, it is apparent that soldiers are close to becoming respectable citizens. Perhaps we could foster a return to those classic pastimes of the soldier: booze, babes and brawls...
...Pompous, martial and arrogant as President, Rojas in the prisoner's dock was gaunt and meek. Gone was the suntan he got last month from a gunboat Caribbean cruise that the government gave him after he foolishly tried a coup. Once when the presiding officer demanded that the former strongman rise when spoken to, he protested that he deserved "reverence" as an ex-President. Afterward he was humble. Respectfully, he addressed his accusers as "Honorable Senators"; the senators referred to him simply as "the accused...