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...When I was a young officer candidate at Quantico, we were taken to see the evening parade at Eighth and I [Aug. 9]. It was an awe-inspiring display of the tradition and discipline for which the Marine Corps is known. Had there been a first sergeant handy with the right papers, we would have signed up to a man for a 20-year hitch...
...they register those casual users strong enough to kick their habits temporarily and pass the urinalysis test. Jarre himself admits his figures represent only "men who had become dependent on opiates, including heroin." He said that surveys taken in April and May of men below the rank of. buck sergeant showed that about 10% or 11% had used heroin once. But at least the addiction rate, though still insupportable, does not seem as steep as was feared...
...barracks' resident generals. This evening, General Raymond G. Davis, Assistant Commandant of the Corps, is giving one for Under Secretary of the Navy John Warner. Just before 9 p.m., the dinner guests are escorted to special reserved seats. Suddenly, on the parade deck, the bugler sounds assembly; the sergeant major strides forward to replace him. With the command, "Post!" the parade is under...
Then the Marine Silent Drill Team appears. Ten minutes of movements without commands, every exercise counted out; circles, squares, lines through lines and, finally, one long line of 24 Marines ready for inspection. Sergeant John Marley, the inspector, grabs a presented rifle. He whirls it, twists it, winds it round his shoulders, again and again with baton-twirler precision, and then flings it back. Next the double inspection-also known as "the mirror." Marley exchanges rifles with another Marine, and they repeat the routine, movements perfectly synchronized, rifles beating the air before being flipped back with the same seemingly casual...
...sole survivor was the Sabre-jet pilot, Sergeant Yoshimi Ichikawa, 22. A trainee with only 21 hours' flying time on the F-86, he and his instructor, who was in a second jet, had been practicing formation turns. Neither Sabre jet had radar, and it was only at the last second that Ichikawa's instructor told him to climb and turn. Ichikawa recalled later: "I saw a civilian plane approach from the rear and felt a jolt in my tail." The young pilot was able to bail out safely. Both he and his instructor were being held...