Word: yasenak
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Prospects pop up all over town. At Mr. Ed's drive-in, where Yasenak fills up his coffee jug late in the morning and then sits down for a warm, sweet butterhorn pastry, one of the waitresses, Julie Lynn Ratliff, makes an appointment to talk later...
...nicer to the girls," teases Kevin Cooper after Ratliff has left Yasenak's office. Cooper, 18, enlisted in mid-March...
...them." Yet his wife Linda swears that he eyes women on the street only to reckon their Army qualifications: a passing teen-ager looks to be about 5 ft. 4 in., 140 lbs.-a tad too chunky. "Guys, in essence, can be little butterballs," says Yasenak, who is perfectly lean...
...Army opportunities, Sergeant Yasenak. May I help you?" Just as he is leaving for lunch, a hot prospect rings up. With the phone cradled on one bony shoulder, Yasenak flips on a lamp and leans over his desk from the front, pulling out a file card as he says, "Sure, uh-huh-what time do you get home from work?" Within 90 seconds, tops, Yasenak has the youngster agreeing to take a 334-item aptitude test. "A little old gray-haired lady administers it," the sergeant says, "and you'll be asked questions about all kinds of strange things...
...Yasenak acts like a charming older brother toward his signed-and-sealed recruits, by turns sardonic and heartfelt, especially with the ones who stay around town for some months between enlistment and basic training. They treat him like a favorite teacher, his office almost as a hangout. "He showed me all the sides to the Army, including the disadvantages," says Rhonda Clark, 18, a blond former cheerleader who will help operate a ground-to-air missile battery in Europe. She is just days away from basic training. "It's a little nerve-racking, like he said it would...