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juanorez
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What happend to the men who washed out of air born school in WWII? Where would they have been placed?
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Scoundrel
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Sent to 'leg' units.
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Quatre
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I I was a paratrooper trainee at the Ft. Benning Jump School in the fall of 1945.I did not know anyone who voluntarily quit the program, but the received wisdom was that those who did would be assigned to non-stop KP, a form of torture, and shipped off to Europe as soon as possible as infantry replacements, which was a near thing to a death sentence in those days. Initially, they would undergo public humiliation like standing at attention for hours while a non-com intoned 'You are looking at the shadow of a quitter.' Trainees who were simply physically incapable of meeting the programs's very arduous demands were dealt with more gently. I remember one aspiring paratrooper who was physically incapable of doing more than five pushups
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DuaneW
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They were in the infantry and in the infantry they stayed. Regards Buddy B
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