From: Bill Lucy 

In article ,
d_n_b{at}swbell.net says...
> To Jeff, Bill L., and anyone else here who has served in the US
> military:
>
> I was watching some some program on TV about basic training (I fergit
> which branch...), and one of the drill instructors affected this
> really strange voice.  He sounded somewhere between Howlin' Wolf,
> Billy-Bob Thornton's character in "Slingblade," and a throat cancer
> victim with one of those mechanical talk box transducers.  An
> interview with the instructor proved that he was also capable of
> speaking in a normal, human voice.

Our company's instructor was a Chief Boiler Technician who had a rather
high voice. I was fully expecting one of those "real" drill
instructors, but...

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