Word: plebe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mother of a 16-month-old girl. When Lieut. Cuevas was a plebe at West Point, I supervised her training. I can tell you that Emma was a whiner even then. I'm sorry I didn't do more to persuade her to leave the service. If I had, she could feed her child without embarrassing military women everywhere with her drivel. I guess Cuevas was my first leadership disappointment. JOANNE C. MOORE Captain, U.S.A. Columbus, Georgia...
...China Boy, Lee's new book, Honor & Duty (Knopf; 425 pages; $23), demonstrates that he made the right career move. The novel picks up Kai's story in 1964, when he arrives at West Point to honor his father's wish that he become a professional soldier. As a plebe, Kai is once again subjected to brutal treatment, and as America steps up its involvement in Vietnam, he again must struggle to reconcile the Asian and the American aspects of his identity...
...received a glimpse of military life, from running the obstacle course to discussing the politics of elections with a professor to "flaming," a high pressure activity which takes place during Plebe Summer (mandatory training before your freshman year at the Naval Academy) and is as unpleasant as it sounds...
...possible to draw a fairly detailed picture of what an allied ground campaign might look like. The key, say defense analysts, is an obscure Army publication called Field Manual 100-5. It lays out the principles of "AirLand Battle," a military doctrine taught to every American Army plebe and war-college student since the early 1980s...
...West Point, the young plebe was known variously as Norm, Schwarzie, Bear and, in recognition of his notorious temper, Stormin' Norman. Nobody ever called him Herb; Norm's father, who detested the name Herbert, refused to inflict it on his son but gave...