Word: sergeanting
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...then, Stripes plays on the old hybrid theme used in Buck Privates, No Time for Sergeants, and all of the innumerable imitations that followed: Misfit joins Army as last resort, misfit has several run-ins with the tough drill sergeant, misfit winds up proving his heroism and thereby gaining the sergeant's respect...
...first day in the Marines, this sergeant was yelling at us: 'Serub out those toilet bowls!' I said to myself. 'I want his job.'" Chuck Hamlin...
...overcoming adversity, something he did daily, and spectacularly, in the Marines. "I committed myself to them. I made people sick, I was so meticulous. I played their game, and kept getting meritorious promotions." After only two years--on a virtually unprecedented ascent in the Marines--he became a sergeant...
...Sergeant Mitterrand was shot in the chest, then captured by the Germans near Verdun. He felt his imprisonment in a Nazi P.O.W. camp was his "first real encounter with other men." He recalls: "At noon the Germans distributed tureens of rutabaga soup and loaves of bread. At first, it was the survival of the fittest-government by the knife. The first men to get hold of the soup or the bread served themselves, passing on no more than a few drops of dirty water to the others." After three months, however, camp leaders emerged to "cut the black bread into...
...true," says McKinney, "people are big on Sergeant Rock." But the Czar, as always, has the last word. "Fuck...