1964 Press Photo U.S. Representative Gillis Long and Eberhard Deutsch, Fort Polk
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America's newest "buck privates" are being groomed by "persuasion and motivation" at the fabulous rate of 1,000 per week at this vast Army training center lodged in the piney rolling hill country 260 miles northwest of New Orleans. They don't even refer to the new private as "draftees" anymore - they're "trainees" in today's modern Army. Representative Gillis Long, and Eberhard P. Deutsch, civilian aide to the Secretary of the Army for Louisiana, speak with a basic combat trainee during a tour of the Fort Polk center.
