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...That was the name we had for the Physical Training Remedial Program when I went through basic training at Fort Jackson for nine weeks last fall. It was (to us) the dark and hopeless purgatory for the chubby, lazy or just physically confounded who couldn't pass their PT test the first, second, third or seventh time. People went there and disappeared from view, but they rarely went home. The Army, strapped for recruits in the economic boom times, wasn't about to lose anybody just because they couldn't hack it right away; they were willing to wait...
...List price of Chrysler's PT Cruiser...
HYBRID'S HYBRID Chrysler led the design revolution in the 1990s with streamlined, low-slung road rockets that all but did away with the notion of a hood. For 2025, Bryan Nesbitt, designer of today's PT Cruiser, above, envisions a mix of minivan, sport utility and pickup truck...
...little too late, and I was shocked to find the ceremony moved from the parade field to the community center. It was strange; ever since Reception Day the weather here has always been - rather suspiciously, in fact - right on cue. (Ever see "The Truman Show"?) Frosty for morning PT, warm and crisp for the training day. Clear and sunny often and whenever it had to be, inclement only for special occasions. For our days out on the rifle range, reliable sun. For the road march out to Victory Forge, merciless rain the whole six miles - then clear skies again just...
...illness, and everyone who'd worked on themselves even a little was still around for the end. None of the portentous threats we'd heard all along, like the one about the drill sergeants axing some unsuspecting soul the day before graduation, were ever carried out, and our PT sluggards never lacked for second chances (or third or fourth or fifth ones) to clear the bar. Oh, the toothlessness of it all! I'd heard drill sergeants, nostalgic for the hard old days, chalk it up alternately to gender-combined training, those end-of-cycle customer-satisfaction surveys...