Special Forces General Yarborough had a way of getting your attention real
quick. He would enter a theater full of troops and double-time down the aisle
as the troops were called to attention. After he yelled, "As you were".
he would drop and do 50 pushups and then jump up and begin speaking.
On one hot summer day on Smoke Bomb Hill, the General was talking and talking
until a young buck sergeant dozed off. "Sergeant-Major", yelled the
General, "There's a sergeant sleeping in the front row". The SGM ran
to the front of the theater and reached out to shake the sergeant awake, but
General Yarborough ordered. "No Sergeant-Major, let him sleep. As long
as he's asleep, he's a sergeant. When he wakes up he'll be a corporal".