Despite such hostility between the brownshirts and the regular army, Blomberg and others in the military saw the SA as a source of raw recruits for an enlarged and revitalised army.
Heartbreak Ridge (1986) was an enjoyable drama about an old-school marine sergeant (Eastwood) on the verge of retirement whose tough approach whips a group of raw recruits into shape for the invasion of Grenada.
Drill sergeants, typically men, transform thousands of raw recruits into soldiers each year.
"It's a cesspool, and we start the process," he told the authors of "Raw Recruits," a 1991 exposé of college-hoops recruiting.
While plenty in the Mariners squad gained experience last season, there is a still a number of raw recruits.
That presents the Big Four with a particular problem: how to identify future stars among the mass of raw recruits.
A more relevant lesson for these raw recruits is the extraordinary plummet of LeBron James, the Miami Heat superstar.
The Washington club can take pride in their part in Najar's development from raw recruit to World Cup star.
The 360 who started the programme last year are here too, handing on to the raw recruits their tips for coping with bad behaviour and keeping lessons fresh, and demonstrating to their tutors what they have learned.
