Brief description:
From the dust jacket:
Everyone who read WEST POINT PLEBE, with its rousing, intimate, hilarious picture of plebe life, will be thrilled to share with Clint Lane and his classmates in WEST POINT YEARLING the even greater adventure of their second year. Attention continues to center on Clint Lane, football player and “army brat” from California, though his friends Chugwatcr Austin, trick- roping champion of the world, and ]oe Flynn, son of a Maine lobster fisherman, come in for their share of attention. So do Boy McCoy, who is something less than a friend, and others. Their experiences make lively and entertaining reading as they learn—if they did not fully realize before—that training to become an officer is serious business. Clint is taught a lesson in leadership on night maneuvers and learns that orders are orders even when one’s best girl is calling long distance, and McCoy receives a Sharp reprimand for hazing plebes.
But combat maneuvers, night patrols, demerits, calculus and psychology must share the days and nights with cadet parties, football, fishing and the many other forms of entertainment and sport cadets enjoy—including the three mysterious and “uninvited guests" from Mexico, who are strictly “off-limits”: lnjun Joe, James Bowie, and Admiral Nelson.
Everyone who read WEST POINT PLEBE, with its rousing, intimate, hilarious picture of plebe life, will be thrilled to share with Clint Lane and his classmates in WEST POINT YEARLING the even greater adventure of their second year. Attention continues to center on Clint Lane, football player and “army brat” from California, though his friends Chugwatcr Austin, trick- roping champion of the world, and ]oe Flynn, son of a Maine lobster fisherman, come in for their share of attention. So do Boy McCoy, who is something less than a friend, and others. Their experiences make lively and entertaining reading as they learn—if they did not fully realize before—that training to become an officer is serious business. Clint is taught a lesson in leadership on night maneuvers and learns that orders are orders even when one’s best girl is calling long distance, and McCoy receives a Sharp reprimand for hazing plebes.
But combat maneuvers, night patrols, demerits, calculus and psychology must share the days and nights with cadet parties, football, fishing and the many other forms of entertainment and sport cadets enjoy—including the three mysterious and “uninvited guests" from Mexico, who are strictly “off-limits”: lnjun Joe, James Bowie, and Admiral Nelson.
Publication
Duell, Sloan, Pearce, (1956) 1st,Hdbk,DJ,,Exc