Already busy weeding out its incompetent officers, the U.S. Army last week took the first step toward improving its officers corps: from ten big Army posts it got 1,900 brand-new lieutenants, guaranteed good quality and strictly fresh.
The new crop of youngsters had something that the commissioned body of the Army, selected by varying standards over the past 20-odd years, has not: uniform training. The first graduates of the Officer Candidate Schools (and the rest of the 10,000 who will finish their training by next summer) had the pick of the Army's young brains to whip them into shape. For 13 weeks...
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