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...It’s 7 a.m, exactly. This is not a class that starts late. Captain Mark A. Chaney, the course’s instructor, has served active duty in Kuwait, Pakistan, and Iraq. A man with half a thumb missing and a handshake no worse for the loss, he speaks with the measured precision and pitch of one accustomed to military discipline...
...This is part of LDAC, by the way,” Chaney remarks, referring to the month-long leadership test all cadets must complete following their third year of instruction. “You’re going to have to climb a mountain like this, with a cape billowing around your ears...
...Chaney is not showing the movie for comic relief. The day’s lesson is the operations order, a key component of an officer’s duties, which, according to Chaney, Leonidas does not have quite right.And for the cadets of the Paul Revere battalion—a division of the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) that includes students from Harvard, Tufts, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—getting it right is serious business. These students must master the kind of discipline necessary to lead soldiers—some many years their senior?...
...smoking and eating pizza on Friday night,” another cadet shouts at him, attempting to spur his comrade’s performance. Relief comes a second later, as Chaney calls time and the cadet, spluttering, lurches to a stop...
After her son James waskilled by Klansmen in Mississippi during the "Freedom Summer" of 1964, Fannie Lee Chaney moved out of the state to escape death threats. The murders of Chaney and two fellow civil rights workers inspired the movie Mississippi Burning --but led to no state murder indictments until 2005, when Fannie Lee's testimony helped convict and imprison Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen. Following a funeral service at the chapel that memorialized her son, Fannie Lee was buried next to James' grave in Meridian, Miss. She was 84. Since 1964, when Alvin--the deep-diving submarine that...