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...They have to go through such antics as calisthenics and close-order drill (to harden them up, explains the Army...
...packed off to Camp Roberts, Cal. There he continued to make his views clear. He refused to obey orders and was court-martialed and given six months in the clink. Released for good behavior, he refused to drill with his squad. "I would rather be shot," he declared. Instead, he was court-martialed again and sentenced to be hanged...
...particularly zestful moment came in 1939 when he got so mad at the din from a sewer-construction job near his house that he wrecked a WPA drill with an ax, yelling to the workmen: "I say to you, this damned rat-a-tat-tat day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, must stop!" He was fined...
After the outbreak of the Spanish-American War in 1898, Krueger and his fellow high-school students went over to Fort Thomas, Ky. to watch the 6th Infantry drill. The military bug bit them. On June 17, Walter Krueger enlisted; he reached Santiago, Cuba a few weeks after the Battle of San Juan Hill. Mustered out of the volunteers in February 1899, he still was not dedicated to the military life. By now he wanted to be a civil engineer. But many of his comrades were re-enlisting for service in the Philippines. After four months, Krueger was back...
...Army. At his first station 200 soldiers signed a petition to the C.O. to billet Rodriguez alone. "I guess I have had more shoes thrown at me than any man in the Army," Rodriguez recalls with mixed sadness and pride. "Even when we went out for battle drill and all dug foxholes together to sleep in, it was the old story. When I woke in the morning everybody else had got out and dug themselves another foxhole...