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...young recruits maneuvering about Fairmount Park in Philadelphia one day during World War I, the drill seemed strictly routine. But suddenly their first lieutenant began giving some very non-routine orders. Before they knew what was up, he had marched them across the green and straight into the art museum. There he proceeded to give them a learned lecture on the museum's paintings. "I thought it would do them good," the lieutenant explained latef. "And besides, they were my first captive audience...
Under orders from Washington to erase the stigma of the disciplinary night march that resulted in the death of six recruits a year ago, the top brass of the Parris Island training base have been quick to court-martial drill instructors accused of mistreating their recruits. Last month Corporal William R. Walsh, the eleventh D.I. charged within a year, was found guilty of illegally "touching" 18-year-old Boot David Lee Porter. Sentenced to 30 days at hard labor, fined $120 and broken to private, Walsh took his punishment like a Marine. But there was someone else at Parris Island...
...programs, which Wilson would probably cite as "draft-dodging" techniques, will go out of existence on the first of next month. These programs require no active duty, but merely from 6 to 11 years of ready reserve depending upon the program chosen. The ready reserve involves weekly two-hour drill sessions forty-eight times during the year (actually this can be lowered to a minimum of 42 times a year) and two weeks each summer at a training camp...
...college freshman and plans on spending some years in graduate study, these programs involve little inconvenience and at the same time, pay from $2.75 to $4.25 per drill, depending on what rank is held...
...finished college, there is no legal provision for deferment through graduate study. This matter is entirely in the hands of the local draft boards, which may or may not approve a student's request for4NROTC students satisfy part of their service obligation in regular Monday afternoon drill periods behind the football stadium...