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AF*aseOustsforDrills:tSAN ANTONIO, Tex lt;AP -Good news tor those who cry thatservicemen are soft:The base that first trains ail Air Force recruits announced Friday it is tossing out the frills and ordering more physical conditioning and drills.to previous treatment of basic strenuous physical training itself trainees. Commented a colonel who TLackland processed 81.000 air- wouldn’t let his name be used:Ths is Lackland Air Force Base which gained national notice because it permitted recruits to skip physical training in favor of horseback riding and roller skating.men last year. By slashing the “They mav not know what a Rus-frills, the base can handle about sian general looks like after this, a22.000 more men annually, and but they'll be able to knock the 1get them into combat units faster, dickens out of him.For the first four weeks of train- Lackland got into the news when:ing, they henceforth will receive the horseback riding-roller skating' eight hours* physical conditioning training came to light: IThe revelations came when Col. ‘James Smyrl. a much-decoratedsuchSuch courses as military law. history and traditions will be slashed, many of them in half.weekly, compared with the present four hours.In the second cycle of training, combat veteran, howled at after some men have been sent easy treatment for trainees, to specialist schools, those remain-* * im m. a. • __His suDeriors tried to break himi Physical training will be doubled. Maj. Gen. Robert Stillman, Lackland commander, said, j “The pendulum has swung the (other way,’* he declared, referringing will receive about an hour Air Force Secretary James H more of physical training each Douglas overruled two militarvweek than in times pa.-t And the recruits faceboards and keot him on duty, much Maj. Gen Herbert Grills, themore drilling, the commander .said. Lackland commander who soughtAnd. as anserviceman canmuscle weary ex- to oust Smyrl, himself was transattest, drill is ferrcd. j
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Elmira Advertiser
Elmira, New York, US
Sat, Nov 28, 1959
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