ARMY: Brushing Up

Oh, if you want to know where the colonels were,

I'll tell you where they were...

Way behind the lines.

—Army Song.

At Camp Bullis, 20 miles from San Antonio, a couple of colonels* were busy belying this scurrilous chant. So were 152 other officers. They are students in the Third Army Junior Officers Training Center—a school set up by Lieut. General Walter Krueger to brush up his juniors (and interested seniors) on military fundamentals. This week the center's first class will receive diplomas from General Krueger, go back to their posts leaner and...

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