ARMY: Discipline Wanted

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The Army had already taken a decisive step toward improving discipline: bringing up 18,000 new officers (see col. 3) while it was weeding out the backward. In the armies of Ben Lear and Walter Krueger are more good officers than sluggards. Soldiers returning to posts from furlough are likely to find life different—and tougher.

This week another big slice of the armed forces, 359,000 troops of Lieut. General Hugh Drum's First Army, went into eight-week battle maneuvers in the Carolinas. Canny Hugh Drum had had his test postponed from summer to fall to give more training. From afar he had a chance to scout the Louisiana battle. Now in October the Army's center of self-criticism—General McNair's GHQ staff—settles down in the Carolinas to see what they will see.