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Camp Adair Sentrv
Friday, June 30, 1944.
Notes From
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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).
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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
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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 ...
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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."
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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error.!
The
Sentry
regret-
the
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