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Few, proud, remarkable: with U.S. Marines-to-be.(Culture Watch II)
Parris Island, S.C.
A MORNING here is invariably punctuated by shouts and yells. Standing at an area reserved for martial-arts training sometime around 7:00 A.M.--practically afternoon by Parris Island standards--I can hear platoons in the distance well before I can see them. There are the distinct barking voices of drill instructors, inevitably followed by the staccato collective answers of their platoons of recruits.
When the platoons come into view, the recruits are jogging in loose formation, constantly prodded and harried by drill instructors wearing yellow T-shirts, running up and down among them, picking out recruits for shouted instructions, ...
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