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Discipline among the chaplains is hardly necessary, however. A superior officer merely asks that a job be done, and it is. Furthermore, the men don't have to be given an order twice; they have a cooperative spirit which gets things done on the drill field or in the barracks...
Although the preachers have a long and tedious academic schedule along the scholastic line, they are not allowed to sit around and get soft. They must take four forty-minute periods of military drill every day, take the 5:30 o'clock calisthenics classes every morning, and spend a considerable period practising gas defense, first-aid, and other vital practical duties...
Students who get low scores in the physical exams are advised to work out in Lupien's class, where they have the advantage of apparatus to go through even more thorough drill. From 20 to 40 men, not all command performers, come to each of his classes...
...Navy after seven years as director of the American South African Line, and nearly 20 years of sea duty during which he once skippered a ship on which Joe Curran was serving as a common seaman. Under Wauchope's direction, trainees at Sheepshead get basic lifeboat-handling drill, elementary courses in deck seamanship, and engineering courses in which they stand regular watch at equipment duplicating conditions aboard Liberty ships...
...thirty A. M. is reveille for the WAVES, and as soon as they hit the deck they will proceed at full speed to the dormitory quadrangle for calisthenics. Drill will also be held there, on the traditional hockey and sun-bathing ground of the 'Cliffettes...