He orders the squad to bring along only two of them. Soon, they're playing pickup sticks with boards and not getting anywhere. The troop ends up lined up on a log, frozen in the middle of a make-believe minefield. Jackson looks at his watch. We're out of time.
Punishment is brutal, as promised.
At midnight the group is roused for several hours of situps and jumping jacks. Worse, McSweeney, unleashed, trashes their dorm rooms. He throws cots around. He throws cots outside. You either like it or don't.