Seen in Germany . ry, or engineers,although the great proportion of the men are assignedat the will of the officers. Service in the cavalryand artillery requires three years but there are menwho are fond of horses and who choose the cavalrybecause it is schneidig, a word best translated in Eng-lish slang swell, although the work in the cavalryis more severe. A regiment is never made up entirely of new the first place there is the skeleton framework ofthe noncommissioned officers (I am not consideringhere the commissioned officers) and usually a largeresidue of men who have already serve
Seen in Germany . ry, or engineers,although the great proportion of the men are assignedat the will of the officers. Service in the cavalryand artillery requires three years but there are menwho are fond of horses and who choose the cavalrybecause it is schneidig, a word best translated in Eng-lish slang swell, although the work in the cavalryis more severe. A regiment is never made up entirely of new the first place there is the skeleton framework ofthe noncommissioned officers (I am not consideringhere the commissioned officers) and usually a largeresidue of men who have already served one year. Tothese the new draft, awkward, callow, apparentlvhopelessly stupid, is added, and the officers are con-fronted with the discouraging task, old as armies,of beating this raw material into shape. The newrecruit spends his first few weeks pretty closely inbarracks. His old suit of clothes is packed up,labelled, and stored away, to be kept and returned tohim when he finishes his service. He is fitted from. The Gooie Step JO Seen in Germany among the oldest uniforms in the possession of theregiment, and he is set to such dispiriting tasks as clean-ing barracks and other duties quite as disagreeable to aboy who has been brought up in fairly good surround-ings. Such tasks as these are anything but a pleasantintroduction to military life, but here comes in thenational spirit of order and obedience to authority,and he obeys. The greatest man in the world tohim just now is his corporal, whose business it is toknock off his rough corners, and none too first sergeant, the mother of the regiment, is aplanet as yet a little out of his orbit, and his captainis a fixed and distant star to be looked upon with aweand wonder. One of his first duties is to learn the soldier marks — the distinguishing uniform ofhis officers and how he must salute his Germany, the code of etiquette as between officersand men is very rigid. The private is taught thathe must obey
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