ROTC Training Center - Sand Yearbook (Camp Custer, MI)

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The Life of the Company XYlien a group of boys get together there is bound to be a great deal of local wit passed among the members of the group. Now Company No. 3 is no ex- ception to this factg nor is any other company to be wholly excepted. Here is the way the day starts in three: 'lfirst call blows. l'oi-:il1.1-ia-- Yell, lflorsheim, it's time to rise. tiool1t-'tal.I.ow- Tl1ere goes the fool Dutchman again. Say! don't you ever sleep? :XltllilillICAID-'kkll right fellows, let's go this morning, all out. SOKIICUNIC tfmlf fl.YlL't'f7j-Hxvllllt the M- ? lflmxk. 'l'lll-I XVAl'I'liRH Cin u revtrk woircjs- Heal1 you all gotta get up, it's time fo' risin'. KARRW- Say, lfddie, don't report me absent this morning. X'Vear slumbers, many others also slumber. Reveille is blown and the formation is somewhat slack, but the sleepers manage to get up and the officers try to forget just who was absent from the formation. Mess call is blown shortly after reveille and the company is summoned to feed thusly: Som-:oxic is 'Vllli Mi-:ss l'lAl.I.-HCOINC 'n' get it V' A mad rush for the mess hall ensues. Mtiss SICRGICANT--Hl'lCl'C, you, fill up this table first. Soxixiiia Cut first mlilvj- Somebocly down on that end 'shoot the milk.' Soxmoxi-1 lfl.Sli-'iX'VllO was present in my squad this morning ? .tXin't you got no manners? l had that cereal first. Shoot the race horse! Shoot the grease! S'rALI2v- Say, boy, that sure was a peach of a girl T had out last night. NIEI.SON-iikX'il1Ht did you do? take her to a movie or visit an ice cream stand? I'll bet she had to go home by eight o'clock. 'During drill, funny little instances always occur, too many of them occur to be mentioned. Here, however, is a sample of the way the drill period commences: IXCTING CAP'rAiN MILuca-''Com-m-nvmpane-e-ey, a-tenshun. QA slight gig- gle is suppressed in the ranks.j Squads r-r-r-rigbt- - - now! Say, pick it up, ain't you soldiers yet F And so in an almost orderly fashion the company passes out to the drill Held. During the short march to the field talking in ranks thus: Say! Piper, pick up your feet, you are a regular duck, web feet and all. More sarcasm follows. CAPT. MILLRR- Squadsrightmarch-companyhalt. Take off your hats, shirts and belts. VVhy aren't you wearing underwear, Mr. Yates P Y.- My only suit is drying now, sir. 60

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Humoresque Tina CA1 rA1N: Mr, So and So, what is a march outpost? MR. So AND So: A march outpost is an outpost on the march! And they killed men like Lincoln ! . How he brought the squad on line with his company: lforward, march. Squad left about, march. Right, dress, march. Squad halt. Anfl the company snickered. The company was having close order drillg presently the captain noticed Pri- vate VVhoosis standing fast after the rest of the company had moved off. VVhat are you doing there ? thundered the irate captain? Tir-er, sir, l'm a blank lilef' replied the poor fish. All men desiring passes for Battle Creek step to the front! Company, halt! He had just arrived from somewhere in Milwaukee and military commands were like so much Greek to him. Right face! He never moved. Can't you H, . .. .qltfmn ate, PH hear me, you're not blind, said the captain. liut, sir, this is my rigi he said demurelv. . He had received his hrst instruction in Interior Guard Duty and was walking No. 1 at the post of the guard. Now, said the O. D., when you see me com- ing, what do you say P Turn out the guard, ofticer of the day, whispered the nervous young thing. Oh sing out,', said the O. D. after several trials. Now when I walk up to you next time, sing out. Yes, sir. Officer approaches later on and the young thing wishing to make an impression, sings out in a clear tenor voice: Turn out the guard for the officer of the day. The O. li. in disgust sane' back in the same tone: Never mind the guard for he's going the other 3 -way. Slow music, please. He had been to town and at a late hour came to the taxi stand to get a ma- chine back to camp. lt was dark and the last machine was crowded. However one of the occupants shouted, Room for one more, and he rode hack to camp sitting on s,omebody's lap. XVhen they got out he found that he had been sitting on the General's lap. He saluted several times and was profuse in his apol- ogies. That's all right, said the General, but son, take my advice and for tiod's sake never let this happen with a 2nd lieutenant. V CAIWAIN Cin Prif'ufc .blllllfllb-Hl'lZlX'L' you mopped up that tloor as l told you P l'vT. SMI'1'TT-HlXlO.H CA1'TAIN-IKNCJ what F l'v'r. Sixrrrn-t'No mop. FLORSIIIIQM Clzcforv .vigyzznliazg trxll-- l'd like to have a nickel for each thing I don't know about thisf' ' KICRSTEN- Tliere isn't that much money in the worldf' 59

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I. D. R. Definitions .'XI.It2N1ll'ZN'l'Z Something that is much talked about hut very seldom observed. Rixsl-2: lilement on which a movement is regulated: Dance night at Community House. BATTLE SIGHT! Something that happened on outpost duty at Hart Lake. CENTER: That part of the target seldom hit. CoI.t'MN: .IX formation in which the elements are placed one hehind the otherg seldom observed on practice marches. Dl+II'l.OX'Z XVhat we did on week-ends in Battle Creek. DEPTII: Eagle Lakeg three deepg deep stuff. DIS'FANC'I2Z NVhat we took when the C. O. saw us smoking. ELEMENT: Foreign substance often found in the beans. FILE: Two men :-Blank file: One man blank? ? ? ? FILE CI.osER: A gold brick. FLANK: A favorite steakg always well guarded by the cooks. FoRMATIoN: 14 hours a day. FRONT: Direction of the enemyg platoon commanders whom we love. GUIDE: A machine usually out of order. HICAIJZ XVhat you had to have when you wanted a vveek-end pass. INTERVAL: Space between dancers at the Community House. Theoretical, LEFT! Opposite from right. fThis is not generally clear.j LINE: Something we always had at parades, promenades and when talking to the fair sex. A good line. fDRDliR, CI.osE: Formation at the rolling kitchen. ORDER, EXTENDED! When policing camp the hardest formation for the N. C. O.'s to obtain. PACE: Slow horses and wild women. POINT or REST: Our bunk. RANK: Your first attempt to handle a platoon. RIGIIT: Ask Willard. G. B. K. The sandburs in this company were Pheris, XVestern, XVear and Henoch of Kemper. 61