This scene opens up on a section of the Barracks the next morning. The boys have arrived in Mississippi; it very hot, and they are sweaty and tired. After claiming their bunks, (Joseph takes the bottom bunk away from Eugene), Sergeant Toomey enters with a clipboard. When he takes roll, the boys must answer "Ho!" not yes or no. When Arnold answers "Ho Ho!" Toomey becomes angry and, to scare the boys and make them realize he is serious, he tells them that he is in charge of them for the next 10 weeks of their basic training, and that they are not likely to come back from war. To further his point, he tells them that when he served fourteen months in North Africa, seventy-three percent of his comrades died,.....
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