Marksmanship is a perishable skill that needs to be developed separately from war fighting, said Staff Sgt. Brian Schacht, one of the USAMU instructors. By making Soldiers expert marksmen first, commanders save time and resources during combat fighting training.
Young Goodman Brown is often characterized as an allegory about the recognition of evil and depravity as the nature of humanity. Much of Hawthorne's fiction, such as The Scarlet Letter, is set in 17th-century colonial America, particularly Salem Village.
Of this fact, however, Goodman Brown could not take cognizance. He had cast up his eyes in astonishment, and, looking down again, beheld neither Goody Cloyse nor the serpentine staff, but his fellow-traveller alone, who waited for him as calmly as if nothing had happened.