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Why do ‘Shark treatment’ (or shock treatment as it was once known) on those attending Army Basic Training? Why scream at new recruits getting off a bus? Why have them crawl through sawdust pits or do pushups in the snow in the middle of the night? The U.S. Army recently decided to end the practice “towards a kinder, gentler start.” But that's a wrong-headed approach. For starters, trainees are not soldiers; there are four tests each individual must pass in order to earn that title. Each trainee must qualify (achieve a minimum score) with a rifle. The M-16 rifle was in use when I enlis...

Manhattan High School sends off 2020 and 2021 graduates with grand ceremony This slideshow requires JavaScript. From the top of the Board of Education to the families from across the nation, Manhattan High School welcomed countless families and friends to Bill Snyder Family Stadium to see the classes of 2020 and 2021 graduate Friday night. Seeking a “positive end to this year”, Assistant Principal Larry Myers says it’s been a tough year, and the students have worked really hard persevering through all the difficulties of the pandemic to ultimately make it. “I think it’s kind o...

We're raising funds, and collecting instruments, for low-income students that want to participate in their school band.

Terrorism. and then the first thing he does is a big arms deal with saudi arabia. i mean, we see the pomp and ceremony, a warm reception that they did not give president obama, and then an arms deal. how do you read this? >> well, the it's no change from the way it's been for many administrations. we've been close to saudi arabia for a long, long time. and far away from its principle adversary, iran, certainly since 1979. we've been selling arms to them for a long time. i remember being in various schools in the army basic, a general staff and so on, and we had saudi exchange officers in our c...