And so, they said it would be a couple months before theyd call me. So, thats the reason why i did this baseball thing. I figured, well, you know, maybe i will flunk the physical or something. I dont know. But, anyway. So, it wasnt two days after i got the letter from the dodgers about going to almira that i got the letter from the navy to report to Church Street, to report to go to boot camp. So, i never got to play ball. I went over to Church Street to get sworn in. They gave us a perfunctory physical there. It was probably a couple hundred of us. They took us over they walked us over to penn station. We got on the train. It took us up to sampson, new york. This was a new boot camp. It was i dont know how long it had been open, but not very long, because we spent a lot of time, while we were there, helping build barracks for the guys that were coming after us. And i remember i went into when we got off the train, they took us in to give us a haircut and to examine us. And the dentist
Regular soldier in many cases looked very much like the one im wearing. The difference being, they would have the raised collar and they would have epaulets. Trotsky took the red army and said, i want to make it a working mans army. When you go to work, you dont wear a suit that has a raised collar and epaulets. You have a suit that has a laydown collar. As we saw on the front of that book, that was the early war uniform. It was a simple smock. The Rank Insignia were on the collar. As the war progressed, there was more and more reference to the past, to the heroics of the military achievement under the czars. So, a lot of the changes were made to kind of encourage that, to reinforce that. So, later on during the war, the uniform was now changed back to, in a sense, the czaristtype looking uniform. Again, the medals came back. Medals were prolific. The guard medals, the idea that there were famous czarist units. Now we were going to have elite Red Army Units to raise morale and encourag
Mr. Banks without objection, so ordered. I want to welcome everyone to this hearing of the military personnel subcommittee. Todays hearing is focused on admissions, curriculum and diversity of thought at the military Service Academies. I want to thank our witnesses for being with us today. I hope this hearing provides an opportunity for our members to have a Productive Exchange with our witnesses and provide answers to their questions. First, let me say i believe our cadets and midshipmen are some of the best and brightest scholars and athletes our nation has to offer. Each year a small group of americans know their path wont be easy, that it demands sacrifice and hard work and in the end, nearly a decade or more of service to this great country. And that is why we are here today, to ensure that our cadets and mids are getting the first class education and the elite military training that they need. But i do have some concerns. All of the military Service Academies use race as selectio
Mr. Banks without objection, so ordered. I want to welcome everyone to this hearing of the military personnel subcommittee. Todays hearing is focused on admissions, curriculum and diversity of thought at the military Service Academies. I want to thank our witnesses for being with us today. I hope this hearing provides an opportunity for our members to have a Productive Exchange with our witnesses and provide answers to their questions. First, let me say i believe our cadets and midshipmen are some of the best and brightest scholars and athletes our nation has to offer. Each year a small group of americans know their path wont be easy, that it demands sacrifice and hard work and in the end, nearly a decade or more of service to this great country. And that is why we are here today, to ensure that our cadets and mids are getting the first class education and the elite military training that they need. But i do have some concerns. All of the military Service Academies use race as selectio
South philadelphia that was the shower that past on city avenue. Some damp roads in new jersey for folks heading to the shore. Temperatures are mild, 75 in philadelphia. 71 in allentown. Cool in the poconos, 58. With a westerly wind, the shore not bad there lower 70s. Heading to the phillies game or anywhere this evening there will be clearing coming in from the north and west after the clouds and showers pass through, first pitch temperature 72 degrees. By the 9th inning in the ladder part of the evening in the 60s. Storm tracker 6 live double scan shows a complex near chicago that will rotating south and east and pivot threw the memorial day. Umbrellas will be on standby the entire weekend, again, it is not completely dry and not a washout. Temperatures below normal and sunday looking to be the dryest of the three weekend days. Well chat about those the city, the shore the poconos well break it down for you coming up in the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. Reporter im very ex