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...Quantico Marine Base began at 4:30 A.M. with the wailing of an electric gong supplemented by the ferocious yelling of a platoon sergeant about three inches from my ear. After a wake-up run through the dark streets of the base, we were herded back into the barracks...
...rest of my time at Quantico went by in a similarly frantic fashion: marching, running, polishing, screaming answers to platoon sergeants...
...helicopter and the horizontal speed of a normal airplane, would become "a stone in the air" if it lost power while making the change from one mode to the other. Tragically, that proved to be the case for the prototype tilt-rotor aircraft as it was landing at Quantico Marine Base in Virginia. Just as the Osprey was shifting from horizontal to vertical flight, with its propellers at a 60 degrees angle, it plunged into the Potomac River, killing all seven people on board...
...Lambs. In the film, agent trainee Clarice Starling, played by Jodie Foster, matches wits and quips with toothsome terror Hannibal ("the Cannibal") Lecter and chases down molting madman Buffalo Bill, right into his creepy lair. In real life, behavioral-science agents remain largely deskbound at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va., hunkered down in a windowless converted bomb shelter 18 m (60 ft.) below ground. But the film is right on target in one major respect: few people are as adept at entering the mind games of society's monsters as are the members of the unit...
...yesterday, last week. Or was it last month? Certainly it can't be 15 years since the U.S.-supported regime folded like a pup tent and the remaining American Marines executed what the tactical instructors at Quantico euphemistically called a "retrograde movement" from the roof of the fortress-like U.S. embassy annex. Today chickens run helter skelter through the American compound...