In May 1967, while serving in Recruit Training Command Company 927 located at Great Lakes Naval Training Center, Ill., I was the master at arms for the company. I was required to always stand the Morning Barracks Inspection (MBI) and record the findings of the inspection done by the Junior Officer of the Day (JOD).

One morning just before the MBI, a worker from the Special Services delivered the fresh, new, tailored dress blues for our Company 927 graduation ceremony being held on Saturday at Soldiers Field in Chicago. The object of the MBI is not to get any "hits" on your morning MBI, lowering your total overall score as a company. To that date we were well within the 90 percent on overall performance in compartment efficiency. The worker from Special Services asked where he could put the uniforms.

"Put them in the company commanders' office," I said. This was usually off limits to all recruits and was never inspected.

The JOD entered the office and one by one counted the uniform dress blues and had me enter 85 hits on the MBI form. Needless to say, when our company commander received the report he said to me, "What the hell? You are going to happy hour!" Happy hour wasn't happy at all. It was intense physical training done in a drill hall on a concrete floor in 90-degree heat while you are wearing undress whites. All I can say was I was glad I was graduating the next day from The Lakes.