Word: preflight
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...from recent All-Americas, may go to the Rose Bowl again. But if physical fitness, mental discipline and the will-to-win cut any swath on a football field, the steam rollers that should blitz this year's college elevens will come from the Navy's four preflight training centers: St. Mary's, University of Iowa, University of Georgia, University of North Carolina...
...These preflight schools, organized two months ago to make U.S. naval aviators the world's toughest fighters, have attracted 600 of the country's ablest athletic coaches and have launched the most intensive three-month sport program ever undertaken in the U.S. In their curriculum, devised and supervised by onetime Annapolis Football Coach Tom Hamilton, are ten compulsory sports: football, basketball, soccer, wrestling, boxing, tumbling, swimming, track, hand-to-hand, engineering (which means ditch-digging, wood-chopping and other manual labor...
Also helpful in accident prevention are the new elaborate "screening" tests given candidates at induction and preflight centers. A series of 21 physical, mental and mechanical examinations weed out a high percentage of men who would be apt to crash...
...Combat is like sitting here. Your mission is over in a hurry. You are a supertarget for only a short time, and if death comes it will be in a hurry. The preflight periods are the only time that can be bad, and the only thing to do then is to think of something else...