Plattsburg Training Camp - Plattsburger Yearbook (Plattsburgh, NY)

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Somewhere in Plattsburg General john Pershing, U. S. Army, A Deer Gen: Mabe you are surprized to get this missle from me Gen. but as you probly know I joined your army 81 came up hear to the C. M. T. C. camp in plattsburg. VV hen i gets hear they put me into a company which for want of a bettername they calls B. Into this company was put felloes frum N. Y. New jersey del. and part of podunk. And john this compny is the cats fur when it comes to the so called Military Life even if i do say it my-- self wich shuldnt. I Well Gen. the tirst thing they done when we got hear was to divide us into Reds Whites 81 Blues. At lirst Peet didn't see why he was a Red but the officers told him that the Blues 8: Vlfhites were the brains of the outlit wile the Reds wood be the mussel 81 bone. And he decided he had the latter quality at least. They began almost frum the Ist to give us, I. D. R. Qimposibilitys done rapidlyj, a so called Manuel of Arms which isnt done with your arms at all but with a gun called a rifle, and other things-add infinatum. How the so ever john this hear Co. B. is the snakes hips wen you come down to it. Napolean B.-is only a corp. in our outlit. As i sed before Gen. we didnt no each other very well at first, but that didnt bother us. Some of the fel- loes seemed to have been named rite in the iirst place Qas for exg Roach, Peet, Hinds, Salmon, and etc.j and some of the felloes seemed to nead new names. And this hear co. B. is the elefants ear rings wen it comes to namin Gen. For instance C. Butt be-- coms Cigaret Butt without hardely a bit of thot. r Well Gen. as i mount gard in the neer futer l'll have to clos with you. Now Gen. this is one of the army teknickalitys, Wen you mount gard you don't mount anything just like wen you are on kitchen police you arn't a policeman at all. The army is awful teknickal that way. Cward duty john is like an extempo- raneous speach becas you no wot you are goin' to say all the time. But their goes the corpralfs whistle so i must tear myself away. Yours on gard A. ROOKIE F. C. S'i'lflM7fZ07fLS Co. B. 7

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