Discipline

The first task, it appears, of army personnel at Sandhurst is to destroy, utterly and completely, any high ideals that cadets might hold about army life. This is done in the traditional way . . . Discipline. Cadets have little chance of seeing Old England during the first six weeks, in fact a rooky cadet is lucky to get a peep outside of Sandhurst at all. Time tells, and time passes and at last the cadet is reduced to introvertly examining his reasons for joining the army. If none of these reasons are convincing, then the army has won and it is felt safe to grant the cadet leave. Three glorious days. Time aplenty for desertion. Time at a quiet country pub, well away from it all. Then back in a justifiably alcoholic haze to a second term at Sandhurst.