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...drill program. The transition from the pevious fall, when groups of seedy freshmen patiently learn which foot is left, seems miraculous. But if the cadets who march on parade have caught Mitty at the moment of glory, no man is happier than a small bawling sergeant named Walter William Amolsch...
Most freshmen develop an immediate fear of Amolsch, and a great deal of respect. From the first "chewing out" on the drill field they are prone to address him as "sir," instead of "sergeant" as they have been taught. Despite periodic admonitions, some cadets go through the first year inadvertently sirring Amolsch, unable to comprehend that on the drill field they actually outrank this holdover--or so it seems--from the barracks life of James Jones...
...Amolsch works very hard to sell himself to the first year men as a screaming monster. He has a powerful voice, which he combines with an arrogant, scornful look and a faultless drill manner. Yet when the first impression finally wears off, Amolsch appears as the most terrible Mitty of them all. Away from the drill field he becomes jovial, a sympathetic "good guy," best liked by the cadets who know him best...
...Amolsch's life has always centered around government payrolls. The son of a naval man, he went through grade school and a year at Commerce High in New York City before he had to quit and take a job. The New Deal was beginning to flower then, and Amolsch signed up as a pest control officer for the Department of Agriculture. When he tired of that he joined a surveying team with the Department of the Interior. In 1938 he returned to New York and on the 21st of August enlisted in the Army for the first time...