Word: regimentation
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Making the commitment was the easy step. The runners then had to concoct and follow a rigorous running regiment that would condition them to endure the 26.2 miles...
After capturing Leipzig, the U.S. First Army drew to a halt along the Mulde River, a tributary of the Elbe, Lieut. Albert Kotzebue of the 273rd Infantry Regiment was told to take 35 men and explore the narrow strip of land between the two rivers to see if he could establish contact with the Soviets. But he was ordered not to go more than two miles to the east...
Harvard played a significant role in the Roosevelt family. Theodore enjoyed dining at the Porcellian, a final club on Mass Ave., and O’Toole writes that the Porc “ranked close behind the Rough Riders [Roosevelt’s Spanish-American War regiment] in TR’s affections.” All four of his sons studied at the College...
...Iraq. A precedent has already been set by Captain David Rozelle, a 33-year-old amputee who lost his right foot after his Humvee rolled over a land mine in Iraq in June 2003. He headed back to Iraq earlier this month to command a 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment troop. Aside from those daily slow-drip shrapnel and bullet wounds, there are the times that Landstuhl's doctors call simply "surge modes" - stretches of up to 24 hours when they perform nonstop operations. Like military historians, they can rattle off without pause the war's bloodiest events for American soldiers...
Going back to the Marines meant a 75% salary cut, but Pantano loved it. In January 2004, after a year of officer's training, he was assigned as a second lieutenant to Easy Company of the 2nd Battalion of the 2nd Regiment of Marines--2-2, for short. In mid-March they arrived in Iraq. Pantano prepared his platoon by working the men hard. His men grumbled--enlisted men call officers like Pantano "motarded"--motivated to the point of retardation. But he believed that the more they trained, the fitter they were, the more chance they had of surviving...