Woodstock High School - Eureka Yearbook (Bryant Pond, ME)

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Once a Week I'm Not a Civilian Once a week, l'm not a civilian. The same for many other fellows in my outefit. We are members of the United States Naval Reserve. We were organized to QTGVLQB tae replacements for other Naval men, ind we are Ewing trained to take over in a hurry, whenever our country neecg ge, Every Monday aftefnuon when school is done, l return name to get ready for the one evening a we sailor. 1 Firbt of all, I brush up on my lesson for review my Blue Jackets Manual. Second, I take shoes and slap the polish on and shine them unt bzeeme a ek that I the day and out my Navy il you can see your own reflection. Then I wash up, shave, and go to supper. After this, I take out my un-dress clues, unless the order of the day calls for dress up spotless and put it on. The next reviewing my lessons. When the other boys are grab my white hat, pick up my books and get in At nine-teen thirty, Navy time the co drill and fall in for muster. After , on new imformation, the Marine and for half an hour, we execute the drill. At twenty hundred, all hands period of instruction. We listen to instructor, watch movies, learn from times practice on the real p ace of e one hundred the smoking lamp is lit, minute rest period. These of us who or attend to other business in the ad brush it s are spent ready, I the car: blues, and few minute all hands draw rifles mmanding officer passes sargent takes over manual of arms and secure for the first lectures by our our cooks, and some- quipcgnta At twenty- and we have a ten dcnit smoke drink cokes ministretion building. When the smoking lamp goes cut, every man returns to class for the final hour of instruction. During this period we discuss what we learned in the first about things we don't understand, and assignments. At twenty-two hundred, the class we pick up our books, and are handed everyone says Usee you next weekn and period, ask questions get next week's is dismissed. As ' back our I. D. cards, we heed for our car and soon are on the way home. I've met some swell fellows during the five months that I have be of a good future, too. Al5we,f.:gj,,b.x xswf A - 'sag s' ' en in, and I'm sure Jerry Davis '51

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