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lip
buttoned
while
I
talk
,
we
'll
have
you
back
in
the
M.
I.
where
you
belong
.
You
must
be
temporary
officers
for
your
'
prentice
cruise
because
there
is
no
room
for
dead-heads
in
a
combat
drop
.
You
'll
fight
--
and
take
orders
--
and
give
orders
.
Legal
orders
,
because
you
will
hold
rank
and
be
ordered
to
serve
in
that
team
;
that
makes
any
order
you
give
in
carrying
out
your
assigned
duties
as
binding
as
one
signed
by
the
C-in-C
.
"
Even
more
,
"
the
Commandant
went
on
,
"
once
you
are
in
line
of
command
,
you
must
be
ready
instantly
to
assume
higher
command
.
If
you
are
in
a
one-platoon
team
--
quite
likely
in
the
present
state
of
the
war
--
and
you
are
assistant
platoon
leader
when
your
platoon
leader
buys
it
...
then
...
you
...
are
...
It
!
"
He
shook
his
head
.
"
Not
'
acting
platoon
leader
.
'
Not
a
cadet
leading
a
drill
.
Not
a
'
junior
officer
under
instruction
.
'
Suddenly
you
are
the
Old
Man
,
the
Boss
,
Commanding
Officer
Present
--
and
you
discover
with
a
sickening
shock
that
fellow
human
beings
are
depending
on
you
alone
to
tell
them
what
to
do
,
how
to
fight
,
how
to
complete
the
mission
and
get
out
alive
.
They
wait
for
the
sure
voice
of
command
--
while
seconds
trickle
away
--
and
it
's
up
to
you
to
be
that
voice
,
make
decisions
,
give
the
right
orders
...
and
not
only
the
right
ones
but
in
a
calm
,
unworried
tone
.
Because
it
's
a
cinch
,
gentlemen
,
that
your
team
is
in
trouble
--
bad
trouble
!
--
and
a
strange
voice
with
panic
in
it
can
turn
the
best
combat
team
in
the
Galaxy
into
a
leaderless
,
lawless
,
fear-crazed
mob
.
"
The
whole
merciless
load
will
land
without
warning
.
You
must
act
at
once
and
you
'll
have
only
God
over
you
.
Do
n't
expect
Him
to
fill
in
tactical
details
;
that
's
your
job
.
He
'll
be
doing
all
that
a
soldier
has
a
right
to
expect
if
He
helps
you
keep
the
panic
you
are
sure
to
feel
out
of
your
voice
.
"
The
Colonel
paused
.
I
was
sobered
and
Birdie
was
looking
terribly
serious
and
awfully
young
and
Hassan
was
scowling
.
I
wished
that
I
were
back
in
the
drop
room
of
the
Rog
,
with
not
too
many
chevrons
and
an
after-chow
bull
session
in
full
swing
.
There
was
a
lot
to
be
said
for
the
job
of
assistant
section
leader
--
when
you
come
right
to
it
,
it
's
a
lot
easier
to
die
than
it
is
to
use
your
head
.
The
Commandant
continued
:
"
That
's
the
Moment
of
Truth
,
gentlemen
.
Regrettably
there
is
no
method
known
to
military
science
to
tell
a
real
officer
from
a
glib
imitation
with
pips
on
his
shoulders
,
other
than
through
ordeal
by
fire
.
Real
ones
come
through
--
or
die
gallantly
;
imitations
crack
up
.
"
Sometimes
,
in
cracking
up
,
the
misfits
die
.
But
the
tragedy
lies
in
the
loss
of
others
...
good
men
,
sergeants
and
corporals
and
privates
,
whose
only
lack
is
fatal
bad
fortune
in
finding
themselves
under
the
command
of
an
incompetent
.
"
We
try
to
avoid
this
.
First
is
our
unbreakable
rule
that
every
candidate
must
be
a
trained
trooper
,
blooded
under
fire
,
a
veteran
of
combat
drops
.
No
other
army
in
history
has
stuck
to
this
rule
,
although
some
came
close
.
Most
great
military
schools
of
the
past
--
Saint
Cyr
,
West
Point
,
Sandhurst
,
Colorado
Springs
did
n't
even
pretend
to
follow
it
;
they
accepted
civilian
boys
,
trained
them
,
commissioned
them
,
sent
them
out
with
no
battle
experience
to
command
men
...
and
sometimes
discovered
too
late
that
this
smart
young
'
officer
'
was
a
fool
,
a
poltroon
,
or
a
hysteric
.
"
At
least
we
have
no
misfits
of
those
sorts
.
We
know
you
are
good
soldiers
--
brave
and
skilled
,
proved
in
battle
else
you
would
not
be
here
.
We
know
that
your
intelligence
and
education
meet
acceptable
minimums
.
With
this
to
start
on
,
we
eliminate
as
many
as
possible
of
the
not-quite-competent
--
get
them
quickly
back
in
ranks
before
we
spoil
good
cap
troopers
by
forcing
them
beyond
their
abilities
.
The
course
is
very
hard
--
because
what
will
be
expected
of
you
later
is
still
harder
.
