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"Needing More Bodies"

"My first stint on KP in basic training, I was a squad leader for the first five of eight weeks then they fired me because I could not keep up on the marches back from the sands. I had really bad shin splints and I would come struggling back. I had flat feet. None of that mattered in 1967.”

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Steve Sober: "Needing More Bodies," Crossing the Military-Civilian Divide Steve Sober, "Crossing the Military Civilian Divide," interviewed by Dr. Jason A. Higgins, Jan. 25, 2023, Williamsburg, VA. "Crossing the Military-Civilian Divide" project is part of a 4-VA Collaborative research project by Dr. Jason A. Higgins, postdoctoral fellow in digital humanities, and Andre Taylor, oral historian at the College of William and Mary. Special thanks to our three research assistants Leena Alsayab, Madison Cholewa, and Gabrielle Wells, who are undergraduate students and recent graduates of Virginia Tech.