7 o'clock
At 6.20 mess call for breakfast is sounded . Right after breakfast comes police of quarters and premises . ` Police ' is the Army term for cleaning up and making everything tidy . Then , just at 7 o'clock the bugler of the guard sounds sick call . The first sergeant of each company makes up the sick report , and a corporal marches the men out who need the doctor -- the ` rain-maker , ' we call him in the Army . Now , with all that happens up to this time the non-commissioned officers -- sergeants and corporals -- have to do . '' `` Then I can sleep a little later , ca n't I ? ''