Then the door closed.
"Good!" cried Captain Dick Prescott.

"That was straight talk all the way through." "Hit the mark or leave the regiment!" voiced Captain Greg Holmes enthusiastically.
"Be a one hundred per cent.

officer, or get out of the service!" agreed another comrade.
The tumult had already died down.

The officers, from Lieutenant-Colonel Graves down to the newest "shave-tail" or second lieutenant, acted as by common impulse when they pivoted slowly about on their heels, glancing at each other with earnest smiles.
"Gentlemen, our job has been cut out for us.

We know the price of success, and we know what failure would mean for us, personally or collectively.