Given that it costs $50,000 to recruit and train a rifleman, and that marital problems are a big reason why soldiers quit, you don't have to save many marriages for this to be cost-effective, says Peter Frederich, the chaplain in charge.Several studies have shown that such courses do indeed help couples communicate better and quarrel less bitterly.
During operations numbers will be boosted by paired reservist units providing up to one rifleman in three.
As a well-argued new show at the Dulwich Picture Gallery makes clear, though, Nash was already a war artist before he was shipped to the Western Front as a rifleman in 1917, and remained one until his death a year after VE Day.
In 1971, he produced Blindman, a Spaghetti Western starring Ringo Starr, in which Klein had a cameo as a fat rifleman.
"The afternoon I met Dave Brubeck, early in 1944, I was in an army band in San Francisco and he was on his way overseas as a rifleman," Desmond remembered.
McQueen, as a wily rifleman, steals scenes with a cascade of graceful minimalist gestures, whether he's pumping lead into his gun or adjusting for glare with a cock of his cowboy hat.
"Hey, Sven, how do you know that girl wasn't a V.C.?" an Oklahoma rifleman asked one night as he and Eriksson were settling down to sleep in their foxholes.
Feng-Hsiung Hsu, another member of the Deep Blue team, writes that the distinction is particularly hard for computers to grasp because "the status of one group can affect that of its neighbors — like a cowboy who points a revolver at another cowboy, only to find himself covered by a rifleman on a roof".
There's something of Portnoy in the masturbation-filled high jinks that follow, but Messner, fearful that he might "wind up a rifleman in Korea," is a far darker creation.
Entering Germany through Belgium, with a naval unit, he sees a rifleman shot to death.
The Marine ethic also dictates that every marine is a rifleman; even cooks and typists are trained and ready to go into combat at a moment's notice, their rifles always nearby.
