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...parachute jumps he landed squarely in the middle of an "enemy" machine-gun nest. Six soldiers rose as a man and clouted him down. "Hot damn," yelled the little corporal astride his chest, "we got a colonel...
Plugger. In Tacoma, David C. Montgomery shot himself in the head with his rifle, reloaded, shot himself in the chest, reloaded, shot himself in the forehead. At the hospital he was expected to recover...
...Chest Out. Preflight's track is not the track of the Olympic Games but a specialty called military track. Its main event, the 60-yd. obstacle run, is the most grueling thing in the preflight program. Its 25 obstacles include: a ten-foot wall, a wide trap of knee-deep sand, a maze, a ditch that must be jumped and another (hedge-bound) that cannot be jumped, a long wooden tube through which cadets must crawl, a towering pile of loose logs that shift underfoot, a timber "jungle trap" arranged in a 20-ft. cube. By the time...
Racket. In Hattiesburg, Miss., a physician examining Private John Lafferty for entrance to the officers' training school applied his stethoscope, listened, rejected him, had him sent to a hospital. The odd noises the physician had heard were the crunching of hair on Private Lafferty's nappy chest...
...down before the hour to wait for the first appearance of the new Old Man. He came in on the dot, slim, stern and businesslike. His staffers caught the gimlet look in his grey eyes, the rudimentary mustache masking a stubborn lip, the swatch of bright ribbons on his chest, the well-tailored uniform, the Corps of Engineers buttons* on the blouse...