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...figure-eight patterns while emptying their .45 pistols at targets. They were up at 5:30 a.m., often with pounding heads. "We were bachelors, and we did a lot of drinking," says Polk, "but with all the riding, we were healthy." Another old Riley hand, Major General Lawrence ("Bud") Schlanser, arrived at the post as a second lieutenant and married Jill Rodney, daughter of Colonel Dorcey Read Rodney, the commandant, "a little bandy-legged guy, tough as an old boot." Socializing for young married officers and their wives was both formal and innocent -- tuxedos or dress blues...
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