We had to start out with some translating. The colonel who briefed us on the current state of the Army was stopped every five minutes to explain terms. Airland Battle is the current planning doctrine of the Army. Though the officers weren't in uniform, you would have had no trouble distinguishing them from the intellectuals. It was in their attention control.
Army officers know how to sit through briefings.
They must have looked across the table at our doodling, nodding ranks and wondered if any of us could survive basic training. I looked back and wished that I could see such disciplined, alert faces in the classrooms of Dartmouth College. I began to see the Army as a formidable educational institution. The education is not only in concepts and skills, it is in confidence and discipline. Army education is not, however, rich in information about the complexities of the world.