Word: trainor
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...such an atrocity possible? Experts cite an absence of discipline and experience among the Americans, who had been badly shocked by the North Korean assault. "The first U.S. units into Korea were not much more than a mob in uniform," says Bernard Trainor, a military scholar and retired three-star Marine general who fought there. "They'd frighten quickly, and when they'd come under fire, they'd panic." But there was far more terror under the arches. "It was the worst hell that I could imagine," says Park Sun Yong, who was 23 at the time. The creek...
...young jarheads last week jokingly called it a "Marine sewing circle," insisting that the ritual is an integral part of Marine bonding. But even some men who have been pinned warn that the tapes depict a form of hazing far more vicious than the customary single punch. Bernard Trainor, a retired Marine lieutenant general who lectures on national security at Harvard, has fond memories of the day he received his punch 32 years ago in Vietnam. "I never questioned it," he says. "It was part of the rite of passage." The senior jumper in his unit made a little speech...
...General Terry Scott was tapped by Dean of the Kennedy School Joseph S. Nye Jr. last month to succeed Lt. General (Ret.) Bernard Trainor as programs director...
...only the realistic thing to do, it is the right thing to do," Trainor said...
...Trainor predicted there will be little resistance from the warring factions, but some casualties are likely to occur from vehicle accidents, mines and snipers. He said the casualties should not deter American involvement, however...