Central Officers Training School - Shavetail Yearbook (Fort Gordon, GA)

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STHBN ,F COTS made no difference to any of us But we got along Yes, we got along As a matter of fact, when the time came we were there a little bit ahead of any of the rest Midway ln the course Captain Welch and Lleutenants Boyd Ackerman and Hall left us The partlng knocked us flat Of course, they had bawled us out, run us ragged, double timed us dizzy and all that but dammlt, they were ours They belonged to us We had brought them up, we felt and now somebody was trying to take them away from us It didnt go But they did, and mournfully we watched their departure, weighed down by the considera t10n that now we must take hold of and get a new bunch of officers used to us, all over again Captain Adkin s first talk to us was in the nature of maltecl milk to a lion Here we were, lnured to a diet of shrapnel rawhide, ten-penny nails and other conversa- tional indiffestibles, when suddenly by force of circum- stance and the transfer list, we were handed psycho- philosophical hash We couldnt get it at first It was too ethereal too subtle, too something-or-other to get across to us. It was as turning from Jack London to Henry James, from Titian to Chavannes, from Michael- angelo to Paul Troubetsky We smiled, then listened, then ffrew serious We grew more serious We left the study hall finally with the assurance that the new captaln certainly did know his manual of vocables But we got his number soon It was a number nine, rlght foot, C wldth You could tell the captain s temper by the pos1t1on of his rlght leg The angle he llfted lt from the vertical was an infallible barometer of his feeling 1n the matter at issue, and when he got lt up to forty five de grees, and simultaneously pulled about a fifty per cent Hughle Jennings pose, brlnglng the rlght fist dlagonally downward to a position 1n front of the center of the body C par 79 J , lt was time to move To move quick To move, in fact, damn quick We learned to move that way, as we learned many other things from him, and as we learned other things, too, from Lieutenants Mathews, Waldman and the incomparable Crlsp Many things Yea, many, many things The first real sign of disintegration in our company arrived on the tall of the modlfied demobillzation order from Washington Previously we had sent a few men to the dry cleaners, but only a few-1t took the War s end to make a real hole in our front Many went, many stayed but whether they went or stayed lt is clear they Wlll not soon forget that embodied spirit of soldlery and song of which they were a part-the old Twenty-Second Some company Yea, bo, some company . - ,- 'www OX-ff' 05, ,L-N 'f -:tr 1 , i ' - ' -... A V -Q ,D hr W Y---I - ' ' N-M W- - - rt --I - 1 - V l A--

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