Word: recruiting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the day of his arrival at Fort Jackson to start his two-year enlistment, today's recruit is treated in considerate ways that would have astonished G.I.s of the past. For example, the recruit is quickly outfitted by tailors who make on-the-spot adjustments. Instead of being shorn like a lamb, the trainee can give precise orders on how his hair should be cut, as long as it does not touch his ears or collar. He dines in a style that used to be reserved for officers...
Dress Right. Instead of being shocked awake by a whistle or worse, the recruit begins his day at 5:30 a.m. when the lights are snapped on. There is no reveille formation. Matter of fact, there is no retreat and there are precious few other occasions when the new soldier has to fall in and dress right...
...remember spending two weeks alternately sitting around baking in the sun and policing the area at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., while waiting for something to happen, but much of this sort of foolishness has been eliminated. Gone are the endless orientation lectures that used to provide an opportunity for a recruit to catch up on sleep while some clod stood before a map and explained where Scandinavia was as he pointed to the Iberian peninsula. By and large, gone too are the arrogant sergeants and junior officers who ordered a trainee to do humiliating things just to show off their authority...
Williams seems to have had little trouble making the transition from the reservation to the University, and when she goes back home to recruit she goes as living proof that an Indian can make it here--or rather, that at least some Indians can. Her family is more affluent than most on the reservation, and her parents--who are both public health workers for the government, a job usually held by whites--have been able to provide her with opportunities other Indians have not had. But she is confident that her case has not been unusual. "I know there...
Patterson is an active member of AIH and has gone back home to recruit for them. The members of the group have "a mutual base by virtue of our being Indian," she says, "but we live our own lives." Eventually, she would like to work "in the health field" on a reservation, whether her own or another she hasn't decided...