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How the US Military Ditched Merit October 10, 2024
When a citizen enlists in the US military, he goes through a period of intensive training. Its primary aim is to melt away the effects and the mindset of civilian life and to forge Americans into soldiers, sailors, airmen, or marines, ready to devote...
Author & Aviator October 08, 2024
In the last days of the 1960s, James Salter, a pilot who had left the US Air Force to try to make it as a writer, was living in Aspen, subsisting on piecemeal writing gigs: screenplays, stories, essays, profiles. As a celebrity interviewer for People...
