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That
's
what
it
was
:
surgery
.
Its
immediate
purpose
was
to
get
rid
of
,
run
right
out
of
the
outfit
,
those
recruits
who
were
too
soft
or
too
babyish
ever
to
make
Mobile
Infantrymen
.
It
accomplished
that
,
in
droves
.
(
They
darn
near
ran
me
out
.
)
Our
company
shrank
to
platoon
size
in
the
first
six
weeks
.
Some
of
them
were
dropped
without
prejudice
and
allowed
,
if
they
wished
,
to
sweat
out
their
terms
in
the
non-combatant
services
;
others
got
Bad
Conduct
Discharges
,
or
Unsatisfactory
Performance
Discharges
,
or
Medical
Discharges
.
Usually
you
did
n't
know
why
a
man
left
unless
you
saw
him
leave
and
he
volunteered
the
information
.
But
some
of
them
got
fed
up
,
said
so
loudly
,
and
resigned
,
forfeiting
forever
their
chances
of
franchise
.
Some
,
especially
the
older
men
,
simply
could
n't
stand
the
pace
physically
no
matter
how
hard
they
tried
.
I
remember
one
,
a
nice
old
geezer
named
Carruthers
,
must
have
been
thirty-five
;
they
carried
him
away
in
a
stretcher
while
he
was
still
shouting
feebly
that
it
was
n't
fair
!
--
and
that
he
would
be
back
.
It
was
sort
of
sad
,
because
we
liked
Carruthers
and
he
did
try
--
so
we
looked
the
other
way
and
figured
we
would
never
see
him
again
,
that
he
was
a
cinch
for
a
medical
discharge
and
civilian
clothes
.
Only
I
did
see
him
again
,
long
after
.
He
had
refused
discharge
(
you
do
n't
have
to
accept
a
medical
)
and
wound
up
as
third
cook
in
a
troop
transport
.
He
remembered
me
and
wanted
to
talk
old
times
,
as
proud
of
being
an
alumnus
of
Camp
Currie
as
Father
is
of
his
Harvard
accent
--
he
felt
that
he
was
a
little
bit
better
than
the
ordinary
Navy
man
.
Well
,
maybe
he
was
.
But
,
much
more
important
than
the
purpose
of
carving
away
the
fat
quickly
and
saving
the
government
the
training
costs
of
those
who
would
never
cut
it
,
was
the
prime
purpose
of
making
as
sure
as
was
humanly
possible
that
no
cap
trooper
ever
climbed
into
a
capsule
for
a
combat
drop
unless
he
was
prepared
for
it
--
fit
,
resolute
,
disciplined
,
and
skilled
.
If
he
is
not
,
it
's
not
fair
to
the
Federation
,
it
's
certainly
not
fair
to
his
teammates
,
and
worst
of
all
it
's
not
fair
to
him
.
But
was
boot
camp
more
cruelly
hard
than
was
necessary
?
All
I
can
say
to
that
is
this
:
The
next
time
I
have
to
make
a
combat
drop
,
I
want
the
men
on
my
flanks
to
be
graduates
of
Camp
Currie
or
its
Siberian
equivalent
.
Otherwise
I
'll
refuse
to
enter
the
capsule
.
But
I
certainly
thought
it
was
a
bunch
of
crumby
,
vicious
nonsense
at
the
time
.
Little
things
--
When
we
were
there
a
week
,
we
were
issued
undress
maroons
for
parade
to
supplement
the
fatigues
we
had
been
wearing
.
(
Dress
and
full-dress
uniforms
came
much
later
.
)
I
took
my
tunic
back
to
the
issue
shed
and
complained
to
the
supply
sergeant
.
Since
he
was
only
a
supply
sergeant
and
rather
fatherly
in
manner
I
thought
of
him
as
a
semi-civilian
--
I
did
n't
know
how
,
as
of
then
,
to
read
the
ribbons
on
his
chest
or
I
would
n't
have
dared
speak
to
him
.
"
Sergeant
,
this
tunic
is
too
large
.
My
company
commander
says
it
fits
like
a
tent
.
"
He
looked
at
the
garment
,
did
n't
touch
it
.
"
Really
?
"
