Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 186, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1917 — Getting Out From Under. [ARTICLE]

Getting Out From Under.

It Is probably quite natural that there should be considerable rivalry at Ft. Harrison between the student officers of National Guard training and those with no previous military experience, and sometimes stories are told which might not be told if it were not for this rivalry, says the Indianapolis News. A young student officer was putting a squad of fellow-students through squad formations the other day of a rather intricate nature and the process proved to be like climbing a roof. It is easy to climb into a perilous position astride the cone, but difficult to climb down to safety. The young student officer got along very well until he attempted to get his squad back into its original formation. Somehow it wouldn’t work out right. Then he cut the knot of his difficulty with one command, delivered as sternly as possible: fAs you were at first! March!” This would not have been told if there had not been several former National Guardsmen In the squad.