Word: sir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...academy has seen women march through graduation and has posted a Black as the first captain of cadets (akin to student body president). Plebes now substitute "Hare Krishna, sir" and "No nukes, sir" for the more traditional campus greetings. Male cadets, who once paraded naked through barrack halls, are now required to wear bathrobes when they go back and forth to the shower...
...cadets, to strip them of their civilian values as it strips them of their civilian clothes. In a required course on leadership--the cadets call it "Leadersleep"--an instructor is trying to urge first classmen to try and determine what individual characteristics separate leaders from other people. "Individual traits, sir?" questions one cadet who looks as if he has rubbed his black shoes with Formula 409 for 15 minutes. "They issue them to you on the first day of 'Beast,' sir...
...sir--it was pretty cold up there...
...Yeah, I mean, yes sir. It was real fun. One kid barfed on the colonel's coat...
...summer of 1942, Rommel's Afrika Korps has punched to within 15 miles of Alexandria. The Germans are now only a Heil away from British-ruled Egypt and the Suez Canal, the Allies' strategic lifeline to the Middle East and Asia. Though outnumbered and outgunned by General Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, the German commander consistently outmaneuvers the Brits, even to the point of seizing the key bastion of Tobruk. For Rommel has a secret weapon: Alex Wolff, a.k.a. Achmed Rahmha, German-born, Berlin-trained spy, who early in life had been adopted by an Arab stepfather...