The First General Order

  A soldier’s story, RA’s US’s NG’s … The PFC’s, Speedy Fours, Shit Can burners, KP and dining Room Orderlies who waited on tables one day and were asked to die the next. Sing no sad songs, there were no pup tent poets, just be there and be square and when you are done your own Mama won’t want you back. “Mado, Mado where you’ve been … up snake hill and back again: your left, your left, right, left. Two old ladies were lying in bed; one rolled over to the other and said: GOTTA GO, GOTTA GO, AIRBORNE.” Call cadence count … AIRBORNE, ALL THE WAY.”