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Camp Adair Sentry Mounting Guard In and Around Cam*) Adair, Oregon PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Camp Adair Sent Thursday, July 29. 1943. Page Two » It's A Great Life CHANGE Notes From a Soldier's Sketch Book A w< ekl\ newspaper published by and for the military personnel of (-.nip Adair, Oregon, by the Post Special Services Office, under the supervision of the Post Public Relations Office. Financed by the Post Exchange. X" Address communications to “Camp Adair Sentry, Post Head quarters, Camp Adair, Oregon.” s All articles represent personal opinions and are not official unless specifically credited to the War Department. News material furnished by the Public Relations Office is available for general release. bridal path isn't omething to horse around on. Mood Moderne “Darling, -wear that you love me?” “All right, damit, I love you.” . “T don’t see why he dates her... she’s a terrible dancer.” “She may not he able to dance, but she sure can intermission.” ' Subscription rates by mail 6 mo. $1 — Year $1.50. The Sentry subscribes to the matrix and news facilities of Camp Newspaper Service. Major Carl B. Forsman................................................. Special Services Officer Sgt. Bob Ruskauff....................................................................... Managing Editor Pvt. Lionel Kay, Cpl. Benjamin Hirshkowitz, Pvt. Wm. Sandlin ............. Associate... Editors ......................... Staff Artist T 5 Don Lynch ............ Public Relations Officer Lt. George H. Godfrey Public Relations Office Cpl. John Stump.......... She Looks Like Margie 1st Seldier: “I gotta go now. Gotta meet a girl at the corner of 3rd and Mam!" 2nd Soldier: “Who’s the lucky girl?” 1st Soldier: “How do I know w ho’li be at the corner of 3rd and Main.” j If You Think You Have a "Beef ? Here Is Artilleryman’s Leiter; from North Africa “Your girl's spoiled, isn’t she?” This editorial is for the “beef-trust”—the flannel “No, it’s just the perfume she mouths whose greatest apparent excuse for joy in living is uses.” to beliv-ache. They probably did it in civilian life. They’d do it anywhere. The mess sergeant brought in a plateful of extremely thin slices of Fortunately7 the per capita number at Adair is few. But "Damn if I won’t toss the next guy in the can that I bread. their voices are loud and nagging and they give others a catch playing ‘There's a Star Spangled Banner Waving Some- “Did you cut these,” asked Sgt. slight case of bad habit—a lousy habit, that does none of us where’.” Lamb. good. Besides, and which is so much more to the point— “Yes, J cut them,” said S/Sgt. What have we got to beef about? I Bubb sternly. ANSWER BOX “O. K. then,” went on Sgt. Lamb, To answer that, let’s simply quote below from a signifi “ Just ‘cheeking. I’ll shuffle and cant letter which recently appeared in the column “It Seems By deal.” to Me,” written by Charles A. Sprague, publisher of the Ore Q. Is it oka» to paste pictures on BOB HAWK gon Statesman and former Governor of Oregon. QuhmatHr V-Mail forms and send them Smack In Silence abroad? Quote From North Africa "THANKS She: “If you kiss me. I'll scream.” A. NO! It is not. We were mis S. Sgt. Bubb: "But there is no TO THE YANKS" The column is in turn quoting a letter. This was written taken last week when we said that one within hearing distance.” “by an artilleryman, sitting at the edge of his slit trench in Fridays , C B S photographs of children less than She: “Then what are you scared 1 year old—or those born after North Africa on the last day of April, to his brother who was of?” then in a training camp in the home land. The author, Charles 1. You find honey bees in a hive their fathers left the U.S.A. — be pasted on V-Mail forms L. Wood, jr., of Salem, whose father is employed in the state and humble bees in a nest. Where could Pfc: “May I take you home? I and mailed abroad. The photo would you find sea bees ? like to take experienced girls public utilities office, graduated at Oregon State in 1941, went graphs must be printed, not pasted 2. Which one of these actors was home. ” immediately into service and is now a captain. His brother, on the forms. They must appear born in the United States: Cary in the upper left corner and occu-I She: “But I’m not experienced.” Don, in the same branch of the service, recently was sent Grant, Melvyn Douglas, George Pfc: “You’re not home yet.” py no more than one-third of the overseas. Brent? correspondence space. 3. For what purpose would a First Sgt.: “Did the corporal tell ‘ The gist of Capt. Wood’s letter is that, regardless of Q. What are the qualifications person be apt to go into a “ ton- for the Army Transportation Corps you what to do?” how tough training camp life is, the hardest lessons lie sorial parlor?” Rookie: “He told me to he sure Officer Candidate School? ahead: ‘How to do their job in the face of a rugged, 4. If someone gave you a poncho, and wake him whenever I see you A. Applicants for admission to heartless, armed, intelligent, experienced army.’ He goes would you ride it, wear it or eat it ? the Transportation OCS must be coming.” on to say: 5. What’s the difference between between the ages of 18 and 45. a hassock and a Cossack ? They must have completed their Why is it girls who scream at “ ‘Some of the simplest things that we don’t even pay any 6. In the Walt Disney pictures, basic training and they must have the sight of a mouse will never attention to any more are such things as not having been Dumbo is an elephant and Bambi had transportation experience ei hesitate at going out with a in any sort of a bed or had any mattress other than my roll is a deer. What is Pedro? ther in the Army or in civilian life. wolf?” for going on six months. That goes for every man in the out-* (Continued on Page 8) Candidates have entered the Trans fit from the Colonel down to the last private and yard bird. portation School at Harahan, New Definition: Barracks—a series of Orleans, from 126 different organi “ ‘Not having ANY fresh meat for the same period. crap games with bunks in between. Stranger Than It Seems Dept. “ ‘About a third of the time not having any bed roll at all, Denver (CNS)—A medal was zations in the Army, including “What is home without a overseas units, under a quota sys just drop in your tracks and sleep a while, then get up and given to an American artillery offi tem. In addition ROTC graduates mother?” the private asked of his cer by an Italian general whom the go on. who have majored in transporta •shapely date. “I am tonight, handsome,” she “ ‘You eat when you can and at least half the time it’s Yank captured in Tunisia. The dec tion are admitted. oration was awarded Lt. John V. sighed. — Camp Campbell, Ken Q. Is an Army meal ticket ne “C” ration. Marshall, according to word re gotiable in all civilian restaurants? tucky. “ ‘Four baths in six months—30 or 40 sleepless hours at a ceived by his mother here. Lt. Mar And what can I buy with it besides stretch is common—a canteen of water a day—blackout shall wrote he not only received food ? Soldier: “For two cents I’d kiss marches—FOR PAY in rain, sleet, snow, mud and muck the medal together with a citation A. Army meal tickets are writ you.” but was made a member of The ten requests for meals—and noth Blonde: “Do you have change up to the heels. Centaurs, a recently-created Ital- ing else—to sokliers. They are good for a nickel?”—Camp Campbell, “ ‘Don’t ask me how we did it, but we kept ’em rolling. ian military order. for the duration of a journey at a Kentucky. We decorate our captors, Desert sand and heat. Cannoneers working ’till they dropped rate not to exceed $1 a meal on rail Bat’s how we fight. ’Cause recent war chapters at their posts. Cooks and telephone operators stepping up road trains and 75c anywhere else. Have shown us da light. and taking their places. T/4 Peter B. Woolley They’re no good for the movies or gin and gingerale. And Never A Beef! Military vehicles may not be “ ‘I've barely touched the whole picture—remember these I used for the transportation of that See two free shows by buying a are just some of the minor hardships, and yet—it’s absolute wee bottle of private stock. They theater coupon book—$1.50 value for $1.20. ly unbelievable—unbelievable—we haven’t found it neces are for official use only. sary to have sick call for four months. I have yet to hear a whole-hearted intentional beef from an officer or man in the • • • the WORLD This Week! (Continued from Page 1) outfit. Their whole philosophy of life seems to be: ‘We do IF YOU occupy an observation post for against stiff enemy resistance. Over 50,000 of the enemy were killed, several days be careful not to make what we have to do. We’re all in the same boat, so what the hundreds of towns and villages in addition to much enemy material trails that can be noticed from the air hell!’ were captured in the 14-day old offensive, the Russians claim. “ Wou never saw such a happy-go-lucky, laughing, IN THE SOUTHWEST PA( IFI(’, the allies continued their almost daily raids on the Japanese air base of Munda and nearby Japanese joking, determined to-do-the-job-or-die (and I do mean positions in the Solomons. They dropped 186 tons of bombs on that die) bunch of men in your life. base alone Sunday in the heaviest raid so far. Latest advance on the “ ‘So if any “Joes” around your outfit start crying be strategic base brought American forces within 2100 yards of the air cause the pork chops are only done on one side you might ask drome. American bombers made a round trip of 2400 miles to attack them polite-like, how many times they’ve been blown out from Soerbaja on Java, other planes smashed at the Japanese in New Guinea. under their mess kits by a German 105 m.m. shell during Here, sharp clashes occurred in the area south of Salamaua. Fighters shot down 23 enemy planes in a decisive air victory over New Guinea the last week. ZERO HOUR FOR American invasion of Japanese-held Kiske WHEN APPROACHING a previously “ ‘Yup, sure strange how a few bombs landing in your appeared imminent yesterday, when formations of army bombers 'elected observation position always soup will change your ideas of what’s rough and what’s just joined a naval task force and subjected enemy installations there to a •top and observe it closely for at least 15 minutes to be sure it's not occupied everyday life’.” series of devastating attacks—two by air, one by American warship.«. i>y the enemy YANKWIZ