There is military discipline to every activity. "They live the life of someone in boot camp," said Todd Mandel, assistant cadre commander. Even mealtimes are precise affairs, with five cadets entering ...

CLINTON, Iowa James Brockett jokes that police used to know his birth date and address by heart when he was a kid. "I was a troublemaker," the 43-year-old Clinton man said. "I was a little heathen." ...

Though I know parents would prefer to believe that boot camps help prevent troubled young people from continuing their delinquent behavior, in fact the evidence shows that quasi-military-like ...