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Page Two —1 Mounting Guard In and Around Camp Adair, Oregon PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY ■ b - 1 Her ,iwi wwt . UM rr~------------- ------ L . -m- — - Camp Adair Sentry ill's A Great Life ? Camp Adair Sentrv Friday, June 30, 1944. Notes From -yCHAHGt .... BjUtyriil I ch Book ^>CERPTS a Soldier's Sketch Book I i I i ,i Individual concealment: A prettv young girl was walking in the woods and decided to take a dip in the iake. She undressed and hung up her clothes on, a tree. In a short time she spied an officer com ing in that direction so she hid be hind the nearest tree. He marched up to her and called out, “Camou flage company, dismissed." Ard all the trees marched off. —Belvoir Castle. A weekly newspaper published by and for the military personnel .1 Camp Adair, Oregon, under the supervision of the Post Military Training Officer. Financed by the Post Exchange. Published under permit of Army Service Forces, No. APN-9-25-M. Address communications to “Camp Adair Sentry, Post Head quarters, Camp Adair, Oregon.” All articles represent personal opinions and are not official unless specifically credited to the War Department. News material furnished ty the Public Relations Office is available for general release. Subscription rates by mail 6 mo. $1 — Year 11.50. The Sentry subscribes to the matrix and news facilities of Camp Newspaper Service. Capt. J. D. McKay Lt. William H. Ross Director of Training Branch .... .. Post Exchange Officer Tec." Bob Ruskauff Pic. George Simmons Tec5 Don Lynch Three soldiers entering a road side bar. looked cautiously around, and approached the bartender who stood waiting for their orders. “I’ll have a coke,” said the first. The bartender looked at the next man on the stool. “I’ll take orangeade,” was the quiet and dignified request. Disgust wtitten on his face, the bartender looked at the third man. “Just a glass of water,” he or dered, “I'm driving ” Managing Editor Staff Reporter Staff Artist H istory of Adai r? Ordinarily, history is considered us a thing spanning a long period of time. Therefore, it might at first blush seem presumptuous to speak of the history of Camp Aduir, which the Sentzv this week begins on page 7. Yet, in the brief span since plans for this Post were first laid out and placed in the archives in 1941. to be resurrected actively in 1942, Camp Adair has been a historic phase and influence in the lives of many thousands of men and their families. Personally, it has been our conviction, based purely on observation, that for far the greater percent it will have proved, in the long-range analyses, a good influence. If figures were obtainable there uppears to be little doubt that from ine of the greatest standpoints, health, men who have been stationed at Adair for training or as a permanent duty are physically- better speci- nens than they were before they received their greetings from Uncle, and swapped mufti for ODs and fatigues; swapped comparatively- ir regular hours for a fair routine (discount bivouacs); swapped, in many aaes, vagrant eating habits for supervised chow (with or without the it riping). • It will lie difficult to do full justice to Adair's history. We can only ouch in a passing way on all that has happened. But we can pay our • mall tribute to the Divisions which have been activated here -the-96th. he Timberwvlf, the Trailbiaser—to the 91st. which- was hen- for a time to the numerous special truon units which have been here—to the original and present personnel of SCU, which ha* performed a com- wendalile duty in the Post administration. Whatever the history of Adair may offer, we will try to make it factually interesting. The Sentry is glad of the opportunity to pre sent if. Limited ASTP Schools Again Open To All GIs Not Now in the Infantry -— ..-..i DON uyiJcw CXKfAP AOA-m trouble with you damn Easterners: You think we're ail savages out here!" ANSWER BOX Q. fan you give- me simae dupe ply for Federal jobs will be able to on the Armed Force* Institute * J receive full credit, in appropriate “acereditatMn" servire. | CiviI exami_ for skiIls ac ;lc . soldiers raw be aided m securing «w»rmir quired in the armed forces. To be post-war employment in the Fed- accredited, these skills need not be eral Civil Service? A. Well, in a nutshell, this ser- acquired in connection with an In vice is conducted by the AFI to stitute course but may be the re help GIs who are seeking Civil sult of any Army training or ex Service jobs. By putting their perience. For more data on this Army training or - experience on service, write to the Armed Forces record now. veterans who later ap- 1 Institute, Madison. Wis. A couple of GIs, enjoying their first furlough in six months, bump ed into each other in the Big City. “Did you get a room all right?" one of them asked. “What do I want with a room!” exclaimed the other. “I’m only gonna be here for three days.” Attending a movie at one of the New York "picture palaces." a soldier was taken in hand by a reluctant usher who led him sky ward ramp after ramp to the top balcony, where he stepped and pointed upward into the darkness: “Yen'll have to find a seat up there somewhere. This is as far as I go. Above this level my nose bleeds.” —Horned Toad. To avoid that run-down feeling ross streets carefully. Gal: “I practically exhausted myself getting into this tight gown.” Continued Soldier: “You don't look all in." From Page 1 years old. By Camp Newspaper Service For Tenn 9A. qualifications in- .-....----—.-——-----—--■-----.--..-.........J I Gal: “Omigosh. where?" — The The doors to the Army Special Range Finder. ised Training Program—«lammed I dude an AGCT of 125 or more, u and missing since the initial landings. Allied headquarters revealed hut to most GIs since early this graduate degree in Civil, mechani that Allied casualties for the first two weeks of the invasion were, total Bridge in Berchtesgaden year - now stand ajar once more cal. electrical, chemical, petro killed, wounded and missing 40.549—of which 24,162 were Americans. The Axis partners were playing leum or sanitary engineering and. for men in several fioids. Three thousand and eighty-two Americans were killed ... z bridge in Hitler's mountain retreat. if not a graduate within the last AMERICANS COMPLETED THE CONQUEST of Cherbourg and The War Department in » recent "Three diamonds.” said Goering. five years, the candidate must have General Montgomery opened the next phase of the invasion battle. ■ircular (WO Cir. IM1> has au- “Four spades," said Goebbels. I been actively engaged in an engi In what may be the first lap of the march on Paris. British troops thorised the selection of trainees “Five diamonds,” said Von Rit>- neering or allied technical field stormed forward on the Caen-Bayeux front under cover of artillery for the ASTP from troop units, bentrop. prior to his entrance in the Army. barrage. plugged through the widening gap in the Nazis' Normandy- ■xcept the Infantry, to the extent “One club,” said the Fuehrer. of oue-fourth of one per cent each I For Term 9L, an AGCT of 130 line. captured Trouville and clamped a siege arc nearly two-thirds of “Pass." or more is necessary. The candidate the way around Caen. American troops fanned out from captured Cher month from each unit. This means “Pass.” must be a college graduate and bourg to wipe out the few remaining pockets of Nazi resistance at the that enlisted men who want to “Pass." • have a fluent speaking knowledge apply for ASTP training will have northern tip of th» peninsula. Meanwhile Allied engineers started the of Japanese. German, or French. that opportunity once again, pro rtwtoration of Cherbourg’s wrecked docks to handle the flow of Allied “May I have another cake? Candidates will be transferred ! supplies and reinforcements . . . viding they are qualified. “Another cake what?" j in grade except for T 4s and T 5s AMERICAN FLY'ING FORTRESSES completed a double-shuttle Those interested should submit “Another cake, please.” to their regimental, separate bat whose appointments will be ter raid from Britain to Russia and thence to Italy, landing at Italian air "Please what?” minated. In the event that an ap dromes after hitting Berlin and then hammering Balkan oil targets talion or similar unit commander “Please, mother.” plicant i* alerted for oversea* on the trip from Russia to the Mediterranean. British bombers swept a written application accompanied "Please mother what?" movement as a member of a unit by evidence (including a transcript over northern France, hitting important rail centers, airfields, and “Please, mother, dear. or an individual while his applica of college credits! of their qualifi other military- installations. The RAF pounded the German cities of “Hell, no, tion is in progress, he will become cations. Upon approval by the CO, Hamburg. Bremen. Giettingen and the Ruhr valley . Anti-aircraft bat two already.” illegible for participation in the the application will be forwarded to teries made substantial success in destroying robot bombs while heavies the STAR Board, University of ASTP. Men transferred to the hit Nazi rocket liases on the French coast . . . ASTP will be subject to assignment Illinois, Champaign, til. RUSSIA BEGAN THE LONG AWAITED SUMMER OFFENSIVE. by the War Department upon com Action on these applications will pletion of the cqurse for which they I starting a large scale attack along a 100-miIe front in White Russia. The road to Minsk lies open to four Red armies pounding west on the be completed within HO days after are selected. ' heels of the fleeing Nazis—the objective of the new offensive pointing their submission. The board will to Berlin. Soviet troops captuied Vitebsk ‘ ~ Zhlobin, north and south then return approved and dissp anchors o( the Fatherland line in White proved applications to the COs to Bia and have surrounded Y'esterday in your most welcome I Orsha and Mogilev—which appear on the gether with a request f<r th«- tians t of capture . . . paper in the upper left hand cor * far of approved < indoiate*. T IN ITALY. Allied forces continued weep northward. Amen ner of page 8 the headings of the cans captured Roccastrada. opening the ’ all there is to it. ta the key road junction ctures didn’t seem to fit the pic- of Siena; Piombo. 120 miles beyond Rom In order to apply X icenzo. 32 miles t res . . . One of the other fellow* below the port of Livorno. On the Adrian mg, candidate« ni roops moved north >t his paper, and in this one they to capture Fermo while others smashes! qualifications - the center of the ire tn the right positions. German line beyond Perugia to capture the inland c r of Chmsi... For Term 4. Ei Sineet'ng. can The paper I have seems to be W AMERICANS ON SAIPAN LSJ \ND tl Mariana* crushed didates must have l ti AGCT of 11* the only one which has the pictures t ! Jap resistance on Mt. Topotchan and are using flat ' throwers to clean or more, one jreai of college or in the wrong place.—Pvt. Billy more, mathematics to include Jif- out the nests of Japanese on the island. The series ot Patties fought Jon *. Co. C. 370th Medics. ferenttal calculus. a year of col- no:ti any jct> nzimg suitable en- between the Marianas and the Philippines, June 20-23 in connection I Editor's note: : _ No, . Pvt. Jone*. leg» physics, and most not be over — and vironme--t and working condition*.: with the invasion of Saipan, have cost the Japanese 747 airplanes. 30 they "shore" didn’t quite fit 21 years of age. ships and 13 barge- Laru.-based bombers again attacked Paramushiro your'* ■’» wasn't the only paper The which is not hey .»nd their physical For Term 4. Area and Language and Mmmwshu m the Kuriles In the Far East, Aliieo plar.es struck mi--ake • ” was w— 1--. —, but ---' a fe» caught, candidates must haw an AGCT of strength or enduramv assuming. heuvdy at Port Rlatr la the southern Andaman etand, .«utSms* of papers got "away "from us, as l sev IM or more, two years of college of course that they have met the India, damaging Jap mstufhition« Another major base in Burma was eral dozen phone et al. tad - I The World This Week Question Box; WAC Answers or mure, a tasiro to study a foreign * usual oualifa-atioru required of any i knoeked mt with the AUied capmre of Mogau-g after a language and must not be over 29 aoldier for th» specific job. assault. — hree-day cated. error.! The Sentry regret- the th-