Word: recruitable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from McCarthy's office. Whether or not Cohn's badgering was effective. Schine led the life of a golden boy at Fort Dix, N.J. Under the pretext of having work to do for McCarthy, Private Schine got extra weekend passes and after-hours passes during his recruit training. Reports reached the Army that Schine's "investigating" work was often conducted at his penthouse apartment in New York's Waldorf Towers, and at such niteries as the Stork Club and "21." At camp, Schine's name only once appeared on K.P. duty lists; Schine...
Flying came slowly to Recruit Knoke. It took him 94 flights to learn to solo, and there followed one forced landing (severe head injuries), one snarled undercarriage and a first-class crash (more head injuries). When he arrived at an operational unit and met the veterans, his gleaming new badges of rank seemed as useless as any young American...
...Army Recruit G. (for Gerard) David Schine, 26, heir to a string of seven hotels but better known as investigator for Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's Senate subcommittee, was himself under investigation by the Army. At New Jersey's Fort Dix, where Schine had eight weeks' indoctrination, the commandant ordered some 200 of Schine's old barracks buddies to be quizzed on the question of just how basic Soldier Schine's basic training had been. Charges filled the air that Schine had goldbricked his way through his rookie days. Fellow draftees were quoted as saying...
...recruit in ten without a fourth-grade education, the U.S. Army announced a program of "transitional training" at seven training centers to give G.I.s book learning with their bayonet drill. The program will teach reading, writing, arithmetic and citizenship, will take two to four weeks depending on how fast recruits pick up what they missed in school...
...week Chicago schoolmen were working out a plan by which 13 Illinois colleges and universities will offer teacher-training courses at the undergraduate level and thus assure a whole new batch of teachers. But more important than the plan itself was the fact that Chicago had become the latest recruit to what is virtually a nationwide campaign...