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QUALIFYING PARATROOPERS
After enlisting in the 82nd Airborne Division, the recruit eagerly asked his Recruiter what he could expect from jump school. “Well,” he said, “it’s three weeks long.” “What else,” he asked. “The first week they separate the men from the boys,” he said. “The second week, they separate the men from the fools.” “And the third week?” he asked. “The third week, the fools jump.”