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To: LindyBill who wrote (256346)	7/1/2008 6:59:20 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793864

My father went right through WWII fighting Germans. I have his war diary which records how they had to do ridiculous marching, presenting arms and the like as "training". Knowing how to salute was considered a good thing. He was a top marksman and complained there would have been a lot more value in teaching people how to fire a gun straight rather than useless marching and saluting techniques. <All this is not a new idea. It first showed up over sixty years ago, during World War II, when army surveys of troops showed that combat veterans wish their training had emphasized more physical training, and more realistic physical training. > Mqurice