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Camp Adair SentryncTieiearLife 7 . . . ByMlynchi YC h ‘ ang T-|
Mounting Guard In and Around Camp Adair, Oregon
PUBLISHED E5’ERY FRIDAY
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A weekly newspaper published by and for the military personnel *
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Capt. J. D. McKay
Lt. William H. Ross
............ ............... Director of Training Branch
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Post Exchange Officer
Tec3 Bob Ruskauff
Managing Editor
Pfc. Lionel Kay
............................................................... :........... News Editor
Cpl. Benjamin Hirschkowitz, Pvt. Win Sandlin
_.... Staff Reporters
r«eB Don Lynch
Staff Artist
You Can Be Happier in the Army
Than You Can in Civilian Life!
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The only reasop a great many
Americans don’t own elephants is
that they have never been offered
an elephant for a dollar down and
the balance on easy weekly pay-
nients.
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Th» mesa sergeant brought in a
plateful of extremely thin slices of
bread, which rather dismayed th*
hungry men.
“Did you Cttt these, ¡MUrge?" askey
one.
“Yes, I cut them.”
“OK, I’ll deal.”
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Stars and Stripes tells about a
Corporal in England who lushed
into the mess hall, ate hurriedly
and rushed out—leaving his dirty
plate on the table. A weary private
came along and began swearing in
the best KP fashion—picked up the
plate—found a ten-cent tip beneath
it.
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A very well-satisfied man ar-
rivec at the gates of Heaven and
asked for admission.
•'Where are you from?"
“Texas.”
“Well, you can come in but you
won’t like it.” —Rangefinder.
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Kindergarten teacher: “Who
made you?”
Little boy: “God did.”
“That’s right.”
A week later when the super
visor was visiting, the teacher,
seeking to impress him, again
asked: “Who made you?”
There was no answer so the
teacher repeated the question sev
eral times. At last a small boy in
the rear answereil: “The boy that
God made is absent today."
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The above is a flat statement that will be pounced on by
many a Gl who considers it his first prerogative jn life.to i
gripe and his second to deny any flat slatfWiqtHA. 4 V 2
Itlisn’t a flat truth, either.
Boi, mi the other hand, there is more rtf truth ip ft Ihun
many ’might realize. 1 remember an article by (’hanninir Pol
lock, distinguished author and editorialist, who said that in
his pursuit of happiness he had discovered on this parlous
road of life that it is enough and plenty to expect to have
-nippiness 20 percent of the time. This, he considered, was a
All Fools Day—April 1, 1941.
ery high estimate. This, he said, was about the most he
>utl ever attained. If he could continue to have that much of
11,300,000 Men in U.S.
t, he would lie well content.
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Armed
Forces by July 1
A soldier who served throughout World War I and saw
denty of action, has written a book which treats briefly on
(). Is it ever permissable for en
ibis subject. Strangely enough, he said the greatest hour of listed men in the Navy to wear (ANS) By July 1 tbe U. S. armed
forces will have U.300.0W) men,
lis entire life that he remembered, and not because it was an Army uniforms?
which the general staff believes
hour of fear but liecause of the acute perception which that A. Yes. Navy men may wear will be enough to win the war.
tour gave him of the little things that are gnat in life, was Army uniforms when serving with That’s the word from .Maj. Gen.
Army detachments. They are also ( Lewis B. Hershey, director of se-
in th» midst of a battle in France.
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permitted to wear Marine uniforms leetive service.
It was on August 8, 1918, a day when the Allied offensive when serving with the Marini- Gen. Hershey says that on Feb;
vas at it most terrific pitch; the »lay, in fact, which General Corps.
1 1 there were 10.500.000 in the
Girls are like newspapers —
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I armed forces, and that 800.000 ad-
Ludendorff later described as the blackest day in the his-
they have forms; they always have
or.v of the war for the German army.
Q. Is there anyone outside the ditional will have to be drafted
Army who is permitted to wear before July 1. In addition, he says the last word; back numbers are
The name of the writer is John MacCormac. The name of Army
officers' uniforms?
j that 500,000 more will be needed not in demand; they have great in
the book is “This Time for Keeps.” (you can get it at A. Yes. Officers of Allied Na- to replace injured and discharged fluence; you can’t believe every
thing they say; they’re thinner
the l’.\, incidentally, and at the library). MacCormac, who tions on duty in the U. S. are au- [ men.
than they use to be; they get along
should know, relates it is his contention that once a soldier thorized to purchase and wear'
Camouflage
blinds
the
enemy!
by
advertising; every man should
has reconcile»! himself to the task his nation has set for him. U. S. Army officers' uniforms. No Disperse trucks; park close to
have his own and not try to borrow
U.
S.
Army
insignia
nor
identifi
la* can be happier than a civilian. He says:
i his neighbors’.
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cation will be worn with the uni structures; stay in shadows.
“The civilian in total war is fated to feel frustrated and forms, of course, as the co-belii-
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futile, but the soldier serves directly. The soldier who accepts gerent officers will wear their
Continued
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the war ami concentrates his energies to the job of winning owu insignia. Press correspondents
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t become« a fatalist. When he faces »lunger, he may,know, also are permitted to wear officers'
uniforms
without
insignia.
fear but the fear passes when the danger passes.”
100 British planes participated, city, was imminent as the Red
There can lie no question, as has lieen many times Q. What ar* th* age require Armadas of Allied bomber* hit the army poured men aud machines
Nazi armament city of Essen, Han- ; across the Dniester.
proved. that great danger brings men together and they ding ment* for Spars’
over, and rail target* in Belgium. I The Russians broke through in
A. Enlisted personnel must be German airdromes in France and
to a comradeship that is never forgotten.
, the defended Tarnopol area—other
between
the uges of 20 and 3l>, and freight yard-y at Tours . . .
In an Army Post such as this, tribulations and trials of I
‘orce* through the town of Kovel
must hav* had at leant two years
training may be little to what they will become on the field of high school or business school. ♦ Viter 12 days of bitter house-to- on tbe main road to Warsaw. Far
house fighting, the Allies failed to to the
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sciutheust. the 3rd Ukrainian
<>f action. But they sow th«> beginning« of that working spirit
break the Nazi hold on Italy's Cas- army crushed the German garrison
of camaraderie.
Q. I recently graduated from sino. b ighting is now marked by of the Black sea port of Nikolaev
The Army will lie a chunk taken out of the live« of a OUS. A* an enlisted man I con- ji.javy artillery fire from both sides and joined forces striking toward
vast number of men. But in the aggregate it cannot be con- I trihated each month to m.v moth in the fiercest battle of the Hai Odessa . . .
er's support Am I permitted to[ian
nan war. Allied air assaults did ♦ In the southwest Pacific. Allied
si»<ered entirely as lost. Anti men will find more of real happi continue this policy no* ?
I little to help the Allied forces break planes smashed another convoy at
ness and good memory while part of the Army than they A. Yes. you may continue to aid through to the Roman valleys be-
tempting to reinforce Wewak, New
can now possibly realize.— K. R.
your mother financially through J yond.
Guinea, sinking two vessels and 23
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The Bible
nd Our Generals
Before General Douglas MacArthur was graduated from West
Ikiint he had read the Bible through six times! Thus our thoroughgoing
American hero has set a splendid example in his reading of the Word
of find!
General Wavell of the British Army ts a dose student of the
Bible. He studies the campaigns of Joshua in the Old Testament mid
uses much of the *ti*e strategy.
General Bernard Montgomery of the Eighth Army reati» his Bible
every morning and is mi mends the same to his men Little wonder that
The Desert Warrior’s“ men have such confidence in him.
General Dobie who was in command of the "most bombed place on
earth.” Malta, taught a Bible Class each week to encourage his men.
He very frankly says he could not hav* endured the ordeal without the
spiritual strength derived therefroua «
Then lastly, to quote the great warrior of the Old Testament, who
felt the need of a strength that only God’s Word could give “Thy
Word have I hat in my heart, that I might nut sin agamat Thee. 'Where
withal! shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto
acvovdtng to Thy Word.“
Class E allotment of pay. If. be- j Though the Germans have re- barges. Two more islands fell to
fore you became an officer, your captured more than one-fourth of tbe American troops in the Admir
mother w as receiving depeudeacy 1 the town and yesterday’» reports alties. thus giving them control of
benefits. I'
these paymenu
stop
indicated
that .-vines
the Allies
have re- the northern end of the Bismark
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(IttVV It-
nou. Since officer» are not eligible : treated down the hill leading into [ archipelago. Aerial pounding of
for them No one will stop you. the city, the defeat was not con the Pacific Kurile islands was re
however. from Voluntarily sending sidered final and there were indica- |
newed with the pounding of Para-
your own mouey to her through a , turns that an other all-out offen- t
mushiro—the sixth attack on that
Class E allotment
1 sive to smash the Germans would island this month . . .
be made. The rest of the front was ♦ In Asia. British and Japanese
O! GI
relatively quiet with the Germans troop* are fighting the first great
I’m sitting on my Gl tied.
> lay mg artillery fire on roads and Rattle of the Indian campaign. The
My Gi hat upon head;
on the beachhead area . . .
j Japs started a drive across the Bur-
Mx (U liants, my GI she « .*
* I he Reu . rmy - sweeping the | meae border into India toward Im
Everything free, nothing to le
Get mana back through pre-war Po ■ phai, capital of India's Manipur
They issue everything 1 need.
land and Rumania and has plowed | state, but the British were said to
Paper to write on, books to re
thi..jgn enemy resistance across | tie closing a pincer on th* eaeuiy-
My Gi belt, my GI tie».
-iln.uat three quarters of Bessarab- British commando* landed by air
GI coffee. Gl pi*»-
in Soviets uow are battling on the jar* menacing vital Jap supply
I eat it off of GI pialo
approach** to the capital Cemauti in northern Burma. Japanese
So it's Gl this and GI that,
guardian to the Carpathian in troops have broken aero*» Burma »
Gl haircut. G 1 hat.
vasion r.mte to Rumania.
Sotnra hills m eastern India while
Gl razor. GI comb;
The Russian irvestmeM of User British units are attempting »•’
Gl Wish that I were heme Yank
¿nawitijv|anre*t the enemy's near frontier