Single Striper: A Sideways Odyssey through the Peacetime Army

The Army that appears in the following pages is the Army seldom written about--that of sleep-walking boredom; of repetitive, mind-numbing and absurd details; of scowling, anal-retentive NCOs watching their disgruntled charges for signs of unauthorized pleasure; of days itching with tedium marching one after another in deadly sameness into the dim future. Eager to escape boring college classrooms for a taste of real life, the author saw the Army as an adventurous rite of passage as well as a pass...