 The troops in the passing trucks subjected a group of women in shorts to a series of whistles and "lewd and obscene" catcalls.Lear had the convoy stopped, and told the officers that this conduct was unacceptable and they had disgraced the Army.Lear's punishment was to make every one of the 350 men in the convoy march of the trip back to Camp Joseph T. Robinson, Arkansas in three 5-mile sections.