Michael Malone - Weebly

"Boys, your sarge here knows that your CO wouldn't
have sent you off in this goddamn heat to this goddamn
hole if he didn't know I either had a pretty damn good
reason for asking, or else I'd gone out of my goddamn
mind. So you do right by me and I'll do right by you. I
know you're going to want to do your best, and you're
going to want to do it fast! Fall out!" Because the
commander had always said that while a British soldier
would do his duty because he believed in duty, and a
German soldier would do his because he believed in
obedience, an American soldier did his duty if and when
you persuaded him that the particular duty you wanted
him to do was, according to his individual lights, worth
doing, or that the particular officer he was doing it for
was, in his personal judgment, somebody worth doing
things for. His men, he was proud to say, had always
liked him.
Taking apart the prefabricated base took much less
time than it would have if things had been properly
assembled in the first place.
Walls came down at a tap. Despite heat and
humidity, the shirtless soldiers worked with enthusiasm.