WOKING

"...General Dreedle ... was incensed by General Peckem's recent directive requiring all tents in the Mediterranean theater of operations to be pitched along parallel lines with entrances facing back proudly toward the Washington Monnument. To General Dreedle, who ran a fighting outfit, it seemed a lot of crap. Furthermore, it was none of General Peckem's goddam business how the tents in General Dreedle's wing were pitched.

There then followed a hectic juridictional dispute between these overlords that was decided in General Dreedle's favor by ex-PFC Wintergreen, mail clerk at Twenty Seventh Air Force Headquarters. Wintergreen determined the outcome by throwing all communications from General Peckem into the wastebasket. He found them too prolix. General Dreedle's views, expressed in less pretentious literary style, pleased ex-PFC Wintergreen and were sped along by him in zealous observance of regulations. General Dreedle was victorious by default..."

"...Each time he went AWOL, he was caught and sentenced to dig and fill up holes 6 feet deep, wide and long, for a specified length of time. Each time he finished his sentence, he went AWOL again. Ex-P.F.C Wintergreen accepted his role of digging and filling up holes with all the uncomplaining dedication of a true patriot....since the holes were in no great demand, he could dig them and fill them up at a leisurely pace, and he was seldom overworked...."

"..."...Actually, Colonel Cathcart did not have a chance in hell of becoming a general. For one thing, there was ex- P.F.C. Wintergreen, who also wanted to be a general and who always distorted, destroyed, rejected, or mis- directed any correspondance by, for, or about Colonel Cathcart ...."