The AWOL Lecture

I was drafted into the Army while attending graduate school. The change from civilian status to military service was abrupt and not without immediate challenges.

One morning, during reveille, our recruit training senior drill sergeant began to lecture us emphatically on the subject of being AWOL—absent without leave. Not to be in one's appointed place of military duty was a serious offense, he said. Each soldier who chose to neglect his responsibility would reap the punitive results.

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