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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tuesday, we took our PT test, to meet the minimum standards for boot camp (for men, 13 push-ups, 17 sit-ups and a one-mile run in under eight minutes). Everyone passed except the asthmatic (who gets to run again) and the guy with the heart condition (he's gone, after - he says - his heart almost exploded at one third of a mile). Yours truly came in with a surprising 6:20 (and this was a road race, no track...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: These Boots Weren't Made for Marching | 11/23/1999 | See Source »

...sweat suits we were issued the night we arrived.? Like the shorts and t-shirts that we both sleep in and wear underneath, the sweat suit is thin, gray and disappointingly cheap-looking.? We all feel like unemployed folks.? This impression is confirmed by the fact that despite the "PT" affixed to said threads, we have not done a lick of physical training - not a single calisthenic - since we got here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hey! These Sweat Suits Aren't Camouflaged! | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...gonna be summer camp. PT (physical training) will still nearly kill me, and the verbal abuse just might finish the job. Smoking, by the way, is not allowed. (That's a new one for Army life, but good - getting the Camel off my back is part of what I volunteered for.) Nine weeks from now I'll be what John Candy signed up to be - a lean, mean, fighting machine - unless they've dropped that part of it too, along with the free socks. Some things never change, though: I leave the home front tear-stained, and with orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He's in the Army Now. Well, Almost... | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

...perpetrator is still at large, male ?- isn?t it always? -? and so elusive that he has been described variously as a teen wearing white and, more recently, a man, curly hair, in his 40s, wearing green, possibly fatigues. His defining characteristic, at least at 10:50 a.m. (PT) Tuesday, was that he was carrying an Uzi, and using it. There are vague reports of red rental vans and explosives, but none of motive. This was a day care center, a place for children to be safe in summer when school is out and their parents? work weeks continue unrelenting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: School's Out, But There's No Vacation for Gun Nuts | 8/10/1999 | See Source »

...first choice to accomplish the family's ascent to real power was his eldest, Joe Jr. When Jack Kennedy made the papers for his exploits as skipper of PT-109, the father sent the press clippings to Joe Jr., then a 29-year-old naval air lieutenant, to provoke him into getting started on his own heroic legend. It worked all too well. In the summer of 1944, Joe Jr. volunteered to fly a plane loaded with explosives into a Nazi missile site. The plan was for him to bail out before the plane struck its target. Instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fortune And Misfortune | 7/26/1999 | See Source »

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