Front-line soldiers have long argued that the Army could stop worrying about its manpower reserves if it just cashed in a few of its rear-echelon goldbricks.
Among its 113 characters, every military type is representedthe good soldier, the coward, the goldbrick, the rank-happy shavetail, the lucky and the wound-prone.
In spite of his rare protective talents as a chowhound and goldbrick, Lanza's throat was so raw with Texas dust that he could not sing.