Chidsey, Donald Barr "Officer of the Day."

Set aboard a troop transport somewhere in the tropics (the South Pacific?), with an Adventure tag line advising the reader that “Regulations were regulations and if he had to be a soldier, damn it, he’d do it good. Even if every moment on the transport was agony magnified a thousandfold.” The transport ship had been a luxury liner before the War and had been hastily converted to military service, though with many vestiges of her former elegance still painfully evident to one current passenger: the “Officer of the Day” detailed with making certain that Army regulations were obeyed to the letter. While the troops deride him for being an over zealous stickler to rules, Chidsey shows us an achingly personal side to the man: he had honeymooned aboard the ship with his now-deceased young wife, and every moment he now spent aboard the ship reminded him of her.