Pape Two
Camp Adair Sentry
Friday, August 20, 1943.
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It's A Great Life ....
Notes From a Soldier s Sketch Book
Mounting Guard In and Around Camp Adair, Oregon
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The corporal picked up the
phone and dialed a number. “Hello
baby." he said, “this is Gideon.”
“Who?” said the girl.
‘’Gideon,” he said.
“I can’t quite understand you,”
she said, “the wire's so noisy.”
“Look,” said the corporal. “It’s
Gideon: G for gin, I ice, D for
drinks. E for excess, O for off duty,
and N for nothing to do. Get that?”
“Well.” said the girl, “not all of
it. buj come on over, anyway.”
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Sgt. Bob Ruskauff
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Pvt. Lionel Kay, Cpl. Benjamin Hirshkowitz, Pvt. Wm. Sandlin
........ ............................................ Associate Editors
Staff Artist
T 5 Don Lynch
Cat*. George H. Godfrey
Cpl. John Stump
Social note: a little peroxide
makes a blonde, but a little gin is
just as effective.
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Sgt.: “I dreamed about you last
night.”
Girl (icily): “And how did you
make out?”
Sgt.: “I got up and put on an-
other cover.”
Public Relations Officer
Public Relations Office
The Sentry: It's "Raison D'Etre
Camp Newspapers Reflec t Character of Men in Community •
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the activities of his comrades and those of neighboring organizations,
the publication of camp newspapers is . encouraged by the War
Depar tment.
Ginger ale. please.”
Waitress: “Pale?”
Pfc.: “Naw. just a glass full.'*
< ften it ii the sole medium through which recreational, social and
religious activities are brought to the attention of the entire Post,
Inf : mation on entertainment and USO activities is. more often than
rot. r t distributed through official military channels.
“How long was your first scr-
geant with you?”
“Brother, he wasn’t witn us, he
was against us.”
The SENTRY has. since it- inception, endeavored to be a source
cf this information. Through personal items and stories, it has shown
some of the lighter sides of Army life. Words and pictures have
vividly portrayed the more serious business for which men are being
trained.
It- personality should reflect the men who make up our community,
rather than the few whose humble efforts, bring it forth. Cooperation
from those formerly .-tationed here has aided toward the attainment
c.f this ideal. Continued and more extensive cooperation will insure
its fulfillment.
Let the SENTRY reflect your feelings: give voice to your peeves;
mirr< r your joys; and proclaim your accomplishments. It goes forth
to other Camps; to higher echelons; to folks on the home front. It
lets everyone know who is doing what in this neck of the woods.
To you in Adair’s distant reaches: the SENTRY staff is physically
unable to talk to all personally, but if you have a point of general
interest or a story you would like to pass on, we will drop everything
in order to listen.
On Being a Good Soldier
Emphasis has been placed on the necessity for the soldier to
keep both himself and his uniform clean and neat in order to maintain
the proper military bearing.
Unfortunately, while so much interest has been shown in the
soldier's physical appearance, the business of saluting has been all
but entirely overlooked.
The salute is even more a part of the Army than the uniform
itself, but some of the things that are done to it would make any self-
respecting soldier groan with chagrin.
No matter how crisp and clean your uniform, and regardless of
the way you carry yourself, if you throw a “highball” that reminds
one of a water-logged newspaper, the entire effect of the former is lost.
Throwing a half-hearted salute as if the energy needed to lift
your arm were too much for you only reflects on yourself, and the
officer you’re saluting won’t have a very good opinion of your
capabilities.
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She: “Darling, if I marry you.
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He: “But can’t we keep our
marriage a secret?”
Q. TIow many armies has the
BOB HAWK
She: “We could, but suppose we
Quizmaster
U.S.A, abroad?
have a baby?”
A. Three. The Fifth Army, com
"THANKS
He: "Oh. we could tell the baby,
manded by Lt. Gen. Mark W.
TO THE YANKS
of course.”
Clark, was formed during the North
So*vrdoys, CBS
African invasion. The Sixth Army,
Sounds Like Tent Citj’
under Lt. Gen. Walter Krueger, is
Landlady: “You’ve been here
1. What do these three words re fighting in the Southwest Pacific.
two years and never a com
fer to: cattail, horsetail and swal The newly-formed Seventh Army,
plaint.
Why are you leaving
lowtail? (And I don’t mean the under Lt. Gen. George S. Patton,
now?”
tail of a cat, the tail of a horse Jr., is in Sicily. The First, Second,
Hillbilly hoarder: "I just found
Third and Fourth Armies are sta
and the tail of a swallow!)
ou you ain't got no bathtub.”
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2. If you were doing a lot of tinned in the U.S.A.
Q. In what precedence are decor
reading, would it rest your eyes if
Jane: “Do you know what they’re
! you covered each one of them al ations, servne medals and badges saying about me?”
ternately and read with only one worn?
Cpl.: “Why do you think I’m
A. In this order: Distinguished
eye at a time?
here ?”
Service Cross, Distinguished Serv
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3. Is the average life of an air-
ice Medal. Legion of Merit. Silver
| plane engine longer or shorter than
Soldier: “Hello, Betty, can 1 see
Star. Distinguished Flying Cross.
I the average life of an automobile
you tonight?”
Soldier’s Medal, Purple Heart, Air
engine in point of miles?
Girl: “Sure thing, Hubert, come
Medal, Gold Life-Saving Medal,
on
over.”
4. How many times is the word Silver Life-Saving Medal. Good
So dier: “But this isn’t Hubert!”
“meat” used correctly in these Conduct Medal. These medals are
Gill: “And I’m not Betty, but
j three expressions: ¿he meat of a followed by service medals in or
come
on over!”
I nut, the meat of a story, the meat der of the date of service per
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formed and will be worn on the
Once upon a time three wolves
5. If you popped a pound of un left breast in order from right to
were
walking on the desert. Papa
popped popcorn, would you have a left of the wearer about four inches
pound of popcorn, more than a below the middle point of the top Wolf sat on a cactus and said.
pound of popcorn, or less than a of the shoulder in one or more “Ouch!” Mama Wolf did likewise
pound of popcorn ?
lines. When more than one line is and said, “Oh!” Baby Wolf sat on
a cactus and said nothing. Just
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worn, the lines will overlap.
sat.
Mama Wolf turned to Papa
Wolf and said, “Gosh, I hope we're
rot raising one of those Dead End
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Kinds.”
The World This Week
There's only one way to give the salute, and that's the right way.
IN THE AIR. BOMBERS ROARED back and forth over southern
If you want to look like a soldier, do it that way.
and central Italy following terrific aerial bombardment of evacuation
Wr heve often noticed that it isn’t always the enlisted man who points on both sides of the Messina straits. Continuous air assaults
is guilty of the sloppy salute. Officers grow careless sometimes, and were carried into the continent; strong formations of bombers pene
it might be well for them, too, to take stock of their own “highballs.” trated deep into German territory to raid Berlin for the 68th time
while others raided the industrial targets of Regensburg and Schwein-
I furt. Milan received its third raid in 72 hours Sunday. One hundred
TO THE UNSUNG HERO OF THE WAR—THE CIVILIAN tons of bombs were dropped on Turin for a fourth raid in five nights.
or
German airdromes in France were also hit. With the second raid on
“Don’t Point-----------------------------It’s Rationed!”
Rome. Friday, Italy declared it an open city, but Allied sources made
'Ahen this »ar has reached its end. and many tales are told.
it clear that the bombing of military objectives will not be halted until
I do hope they'll all rememlier the civilian, no uniform, but bold.
they are satisfied all wartime installations have been removed.........
He - usually very far from all the soldierly shot and shell;
THE WORLD WAITED EXPECTANTLY for the final decisions
But with all the staff that's rationed, he sure does go through hell. of the Roosevelt-Churchill war strategy conference in Quebec to be
Not that the ’khaki warriors’ aren’t deserving and very real.
made known. It was believed that the objectives of every move being
But at least they're the ones for whom the bells will peal.
p lanned would be to waste away enemy means of battle as well as will
The poor 'civvie. wan and undernourished, fights Ration Board- without to fig/it and to do it at a minimum cost in allied lives and loss of time.
glamour.
IN RUSSIA, RED ARMY FORCES closed in on Kharkov, made
While the GI. without points for his food, starts to clamour.
gains toward Bryansk and improved positions in drives on Smolensk.
The soldier has to travel far on his ‘tootsies.’ it’s very true.
Karachev, near Bryansk, fell to the Soviets after a furious three-day
But the 'ciwie' without his SEVENTEEN STAMP does the same fight. Hundreds of villages were overrun Sunday by the Russians
thing—NAKED TOO!
in their major summer offensives.........
Yeah. I pity the poor civilian. beating his food less and empty gums,
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC RECEIVED its heaviest raid of the
WhilZ the GI's knife and fork just hums and hums and hums.
war when Allied planes dropped ten thousand bombs on Wewak
So. for the 'poor' civilian and his rationed Fate,
destroying 170 Japanese planes and killing 1500 Japanese Wednesday.
? ask some kind of medal—s ay: “THE ORDER OF THE EMPTY In a surprise move, American forces took Vella Lavella Island in the
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Solomons and claimed the largart number of prisoners ever to sur-
—775 F. J. Smith. ’The Ragged Rhymer’ render without a fight.
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A truck should never be parked
with the windshield uncovered.
Any reflection is liable to attract
the wrong kind of visitors.
Avoid gathering in groups. The
dispersion of men insures longer
life for all
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