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Women, of course, have had some special problems too. Because McClellan is an Army military police training camp, its recruits practice the techniques of making arrests. Says Sergeant Jimmie Sue Williams, a four-year veteran: "At first women are shy about learning how to search each other. When they have to do a crotch search, they say, 'I can't. She's my friend.' But I just tell them that they've got to do it, and they finally do." (Women are limited to searching women, however...
...Former Sergeant Donald Robinette described how recruiters in northern Ohio falsified high school diplomas and police records to meet the demands for recruits from his commander, Major Klaus Schreiber, who considers himself "the best recruiting officer in the Marine Corps." Said Robinette: "The pressure never stopped. We were doing everything to get the bodies and they still wanted more...
Masterson's father is a lawman himself, having served on the New York City police force for 23 years, rising to the rank of sergeant. When Masterson was a junior at St. Francis, he and his father attended the Harvard-Yale Game. "My father asked me 'do you think you could be down there?'," Masterson recalls, "and I really couldn't imagine myself in that position...
...just obtained a new job flying charter aircraft throughout the West and had asked his fiancéee, Jennifer Lefler, 25, also a flyer, to travel with him as copilot. One of his last scheduled assignments as an instructor was last week's flight. With him was Marine Sergeant David Lee Boswell, 35, who held a commercial pilot's license but wanted to upgrade his certificate by meeting the requirements for instrument flight training. He had already spent 48 hours in flying under instrument rules, as well as more than 400 under visible flight rules. Boswell...
...infant son when the body of a passenger smashed through the windshield of her car. Police Officer P.L. Thornton rushed up. "The glass just exploded with bits of glass and blood. We thought everyone was dead," he recalled. Lackily, Mrs. Fuller and her baby suffered only minor cuts. Police Sergeant Ken Hargrove told of a headless and legless male torso still strapped to an aircraft seat, with shirt and tie intact. An eIderly woman trembled as she recalled seeing "a man's hand and another part of a body lying on my street...