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Camp Adiir
_ Friday. January 7, 1944.
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Camp Adair Sentry
It's A Great Life .... By T-5 Lynch
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Notes From a Soldier's Sketch Book
Mounting Guard In and Around Camp Adair, Oregon
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
CHANGE
CERPTS
A recruit at Boise Bks. was 0V|
heard saying in his sleep the otk
night: “Don’t kill Hitler: Makeh
finish basic training first.“
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Address communications to “Camp Adair Sentry. Post Head
quarters, Camp Adair, Oregon."
Pvt.: I’m not eating at the m<
hall anymore.
All articles represent personal opinions and are not official unless
»pecificaBv credited to the War Department. News material furnished
Mess Sgt.: Why not?
ty the Public Relations Office is available for general release.
Pvt.: You know that «log thaï
Subscription rates by mail 6 mo. Î1 — Year 11.50.
been eating at the back door?
The Sentry subscribes to the matrix and news facilities of Camp
Mess Sgt.: Yeah?
Newspaper Service.
Pvt.: Well, today he went ov
Major Carl B. Foreman
Special Services Officer
and ate at the PX.
Lt. William H. Ross
Post Exchan Re Officer
o o a
Conscience: Something that fee
Capt. James D. McKay
Public Relations Officer
terrible when everything else fee
T 4 John Stump, T/5 Ted Lewis .
Public Relations Office
swell.
a a a
T/8 Bob Ruskauff ...
.... Managing Editor
Pfv. Lionel Kay
............... News. Editor
Japs are like girdles, report ot
CpI. Benjamin Hirschkowitz, Pvt. Wm. Sandlin
Staff Reporters
men in the Orient, both creep u
T/5 Don Lynch
Lynch...............................................
............... Staff Artist
on you, and ft takes a Yank to gi
them down!
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HOW CRUEL
matter which in the pasj; led only to ignorance and, there
A woman’s whim is ever this—
To snare a man’s reluctant kia
fore to the ruination of many lives. Today, of course, every
And snaring it, to make hint pai
one til us gets Army orientation on the subject right at the
For things that nice girls nevi
start.
grant.
Generally speaking, civic authorities cooperate intelli
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gently with the Army in handling situations which might
When she put on her new batl
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lead to a vice condition in the towns surrounding Army posts.
ing suit, you should have seen hi
beam.
That is true of the communities near Camp Adair.
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waltzes, don't you?”
That is why, for the record, we had better be set to
i No one knows what the shot
ights on some most recent erroneous comment in the press,
skirt will be up to next.
■nent a purported “vice situation” in a nearby community.
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ANSWER BOX
As Co). Charles W. Comfort, Jr., commanding officer at Sta-
Sgt.: What makes you so popu
lar?
ion Hospital, pointed out, there was no situation to warrant
Q. 't hat are the complete quali
Girl: It's my line.
he community being placed out of bounds, as was reported,
BOB HAWK
fications for the Expery Infantry
Sgt.: What is your line?
Quixmaster
¡here were signs of a potentially dangerous condition, yes.
man Badge?
Girl: The line of least resistan«
mt authorities were advised, and the proper corrective steps
“THANKS
a a a
A. Details of qualification tests
«ere immediately taken.
TO THE YANKS
Girls with, beautiful pins usuali
for this badge were listed in War
A certain type of GI can be thankful if a town he visits
Saturday!, CIS
Department Circular 322. They fol stick somebody,
a a a
n pass is strict—not blue-law strict, but intelligently so.
low: To receive the expert badge
A
soldier
I'd
like to seek
When a community gets lax, word goes on the wings of wind. 1. What is the facet of a dia an infantryman must qualify with
To
deliver
a
kiss
on each cheek
mond
?
one
crew-served
weapon
and
in
T’ue tloozies flock in. and there’s a bad time for morals and
Is the guy..whx»'l) confess
2. Does an empty elevator use transition firing or qualify with
norale until the damps are really fastened down.
That he used to earn less
the same amount of electricity go- ' one-clew served weapon and in
This part of Oregon is, in fact, clean and robust.
Than a hundred dollars a seek.
transition firing. He must com-
ing up as coming down?
a «
“The country hereabouts," said Col. Comfort, “is eon-1 3. Eggs turn silver black, How plete continuous foot marches.
my motor bike,
rode
on
Ruth
ducive to building pretty rugged men. Soldiers who come from does salt affect silver?
without falling out, of 25 miles in
of
me.
Directly
back
4.
A
thermometer
measures
tem-
8
hours
and
9
miles
in
2
hours
with
the Camp to Station Hospital for the treatment of minor
at 65,
I
hit
a
bump
,
perature.
A
barometer
measures
full
field
equipment.
He
must
com
Ils indicate it. They are a good-looking bunch!”
atmospheric pressure and wea- plete physical fitness tests includ i And rode on ruthlessly.
That statement by the commanding officer of Station jther
changes. What does a cranio ing pushups, a 300 yard run, the
—
Hoapital is proof added to what any GI who has been a rea meter measure?
burpee, a 75 yard pig-a-back carry
sonable time at this cantonment should by now realize; this 5. In the song “The Old Oaken at a run and a 70-yard agility run.
is one of the cleanest and among the most healthful of Army Bucket,” the bucket is called "oak He must also complete infiltration,
posts. We can be glad of that, for health, as our old en" and “iron-bound.” How else is close combat and combat-in-cities I Where are they now?
courses; qualify in a grenade
Sentry editor used to say of money, “doesn’t mean a damn lit referred to?
Pfc. Glen Peterson, formerly oi
I 6. Does the largest percentage of 1 course and pass tests in scouting
Post Engineers, later of the Cam|
thing until you haven’t any.”
I city taxpayer’s dollars go for and patroling, first aid, field sani
Adair Sentry and now at Canil
Hut—you can help the Army watch your own health, ¡schools, streets or sanitation?
tation, military discipline and cour Kohler, Sacramento, Calif., (b|
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-oldier- for your own good; for the good of the Army. Your
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tesy and bayonet drill.
way of Salt Lake ASTU) write
A weekly newspaper published by and for the military personnel
of Camp Adair, Oregon, under the supervision of the Post Pjblic Rela
tions Office. Financed by the Post Exchange.
To Your Very Good Health, Soldier!
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ALUMNI
pood health is vital to you and vital to the Army; in short, to
winning the war.
The greater percentage of us undoubtedly improve our
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l>ersoual physical habits a hundred |>erceiu when we come
into service. Figures have gone to prove this, beyond shadow more than 50 per cent of the vital installations of Berlin are destroyed.
Day by day air traffic across the channel continued heavy with a'
of doubt. That's one great thing aliout Army routine and i multitude
of targets in France and western Germany being hit. In
training.
one of its greatest attacks, hundreds of Allied bombers blasted the
Nonetheless, most of us can extend our personal effort, French invasion coast and the Pas De Calais area . . .
to watch more closely our own habits and make check on our
IN K< SSIA, I HE ROUTED GERMAN Army reeled back as the
Soviets broke across the pre-war Polish and Rumanian frontiers,
>«n condition.
A sick soldier is of no use to himself or to the Army. If The 1st Ukrainian Army, i in the greatest offensive of the winter.
pushed through a 185-mile front west
Kiev. Zhitomir, Novograd-
— of
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he becomes ill through no fault or carelessness of his own Volynski, the binder town < ..........
of ‘ Olevsk and Berdichev toppled, while
there is no condemnation, but there certainly is if his own hundreds of Germans surrendered, and huge quantities of war equip
carelessness brought about the condition.
ment fell to General Vatutin's forces. Rumanian government was
The surest way in the world to lie a happy GI and one report«! to have ordered all civilians to evacuate Bessarabia, as advance
able to perform to the utmost his military duty is to be a Red Army units approached the Rumanian border. Berlin was still
600 miles to the West ....
hyaRby GI. So watch the health and the habits—i and here’s
IN THE MOST SUSTAINED AERIAL attack of the Italian
to very good health, soldier!—B. R.
campaign, American bombers attacked Rimini, Ravenna. Padua Florence
The World This Week
Don't Believe Those Rumors
Rumors going the rounds that the ASTP program is being aban
doned are entirely without foundation.
An official denial that ASTP is being liquidated came from the ■
War Department in a statement issued by Secretary of War Stimson I
who said:
"The number of soldiers assigned for training under the ASTP i
will I m - changed from time to time so as to Yucord with the needs of
th«' Army and the available manpower. It is now being reduced - but
may later be either increased or still further reduced as the exigencies
«f the military situation or military training make advisable "
At present there are about 140,000 soldiers enrolled under the
ASTP program, and graduates have already been assigned to re-p.>n-
Mble Army jobs.
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and Leghorn. The Sth Army push«! up the Adriatic coast past Ortona
and San Tomasso within eight miles of Pescara, despite blizzards,
" Nasi resistance. The Allied
Army struck across the Garigliano River on the west coast. American
infantry battled through mountain passes in central Italy and into
the Nazi stronghold of San Vittore
IN THE SOI THVVES1 PACIFIC, the captured airfields in Cape
. ou< ester. New Britain, were w hipped into shape for use by Allied
Planes .gam,, Rabaul. American Marines were fanning out beyond the
lengthening their hoai on tne Cape and crushing the Japanese
counterattacks. American invasion forces swarmed ashore at Sai.lor,
New t,uln„. ■„«) extend«! then beachheads. Allied bombers scored
new hits on Japanese »hipping, striking at a Jap cruiser and two Jap
i^e i .a it , i off Kavierg, New Ireland. Secretary Knox stated that
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throughout the South and
Southwest Pacific.
“I’ll bet ya two bits fiat’s Bang
on the front page of Dec. 17 i’
sue.
“P.S. Anybody could reeognin
that kisser.
"And where is my issue of Dec
24? I need ’em for my morale, am
I ain’t kiddin’.”
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Airmen have their gremlins,
•nd we ordinary folks, try«»
help win the war. have 'I*
“Squander Bug” la ronl-n.l
with.
HeN a wily inse<<-rro-’
between a Japanese beetle
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Hessian fly. He parcbea an
porkelbook«. feasting ®n dollar
we «pend needlessly.
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make him euri up and lit •
hunger on a diet of * ar Bond-.