Oral Histories
2073 Brigadier-General
Dr. John JAW Bennett (RMC 1929)….
“The idea is that no officer should ever have under his command any soldier that has ever had to put up with anything in the way of military discipline that he hasn’t had to put up with as a cadet, and more too. So the whole principle, and this gets into serious difficulties at times, is to give your officer cadets the worst possible going over to insure that no soldier under his command will ever have to suffer anything more than he did.”…more
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