Word: quantico
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spot he barked: "Halt! Left Face!" Executing the order with precision, they came to a halt exactly in the battalion front, buttocks toward the major in command, faces to a concrete wall. Quickly Captain Jimmy, summoning all his military experience (until Aug. 1: three weeks of active duty at Quantico, Va.; one night a week drill, several hours a week of administrative duty), squeaked "About Face," while seasoned sergeants winced, looked down their noses...
...honor for fighting men) on his chest. The station at Quantico (Va.) has two such men: Major Herman Hanneken, who got his medal for killing notorious Haitian Bandit Charlemagne Peralte, and Major Christian Schilt, who won his for landing his airplane ten times in the bullet-swept street of Quilali, Nicaragua, to bring in medical supplies and evacuate wounded...
...Disallowed a request from J. Edgar Hoover for an appropriation. Mr. Hoover's request: $135,000 to complete barracks & firing range for the FBI at Quantico...