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HURRYING TO MY PLEBE CHEMISTRY CLASS at West Point, I noticed a tactical officer in my regiment coming the other way, white gym bag over his shoulder.  He was an Air Force captain, and his blue uniform stood out amid our Army olive-drab and cadet gray.  I quickly saluted, then heard the officer demand an…

OUR RESERVE CHAPLAINS UNIT was training with a Navy landing-craft unit at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center pier at the same time a Navy divers unit was embarking for a mission in Lake Michigan. Just before the divers’ boat left, six of us chaplains walked up the plank and boarded. A startled diver looked up…

ON BIVOUAC in basic training at Fort Lewis, Wash., each of us had to dig a foxhole. It was supposed to be deep and narrow, but as I attempted to do it justice, mine got deeper and wider. The commanding officer finally walked over to me and, looking into the gaping hole, asked, “A tank trap,…

WAITING TO HAVE a physical at the base hospital in Cherry Point, N.C., I overheard a Marine Corps warrant officer try unsuccessfully to get the medical personnel to issue him new eyeglasses without an appointment.  Just then, a two-star general came into the room, and the warrant officer snapped sharply to attention, greeting him, “Good morning,…
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