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...have impressions from the sharp pencils. All this material is catalogued, put in safes for ten days. Then it is taken to one of the basement incinerators in the Pentagon and burned. The ashes are pulverized into dust-thin particles. Then a destruction statement is signed by the noncom who did the work and the officer who supervised it. Everyone who handles the contents of the secret wastebaskets is screened for top-secret clearance...
...alongside the marchers with impaled American heads on their bayonets. On the second afternoon, as the bone-weary, mouth-parched prisoners waited alongside a cold, bubbling stream hoping for their first drink of water, one of the men broke ranks and buried his face in the stream. "A Japanese noncom ran up, unsheathing his sword . . . I heard a quick, ugly swish. Before I could realize what had happened, I saw the head roll away in the stream...
...Schnurrbart is mistakenly murdered by a homosexual German officer settling a private score. It is a quiet day on the eastern front when a stray Russian shell catches Steiner. "Why are you bawling?" he asks the only old platoon member left to mourn him. "You're the last noncom. You mustn't bawl...
Last Patrol. Anderson's hero is one of those perfectionist noncoms who make the difference between a bunch of men and an outfit. Sergeant Stanley need not have volunteered for what turned out to be his last patrol; he was about to be rotated home, and he had proved himself more than once to be the bravest and most effective noncom in the company. To get through the surrounding Chinese in broad daylight, ford a river, get in touch with the Dutch and then return was a job no man in his right senses would...
Company K observes all the antiheroic conventions of the between-wars decades; yet Author March (full name: William Edward March Campbell) was himself a Marine Corps noncom.* wounded three times, who won a D.S.C., Navy Cross and Croix de Guerre, and had every right to the bitter pity with which he wrote his novel. Among its 113 characters, every military type is represented-the good soldier, the coward, the goldbrick, the rank-happy shavetail, the lucky and the wound-prone. Each is caught in one lurid moment of his life, as if March had composed by the light...