US Army Infantry School - Doughboy Yearbook (Fort Benning, GA)

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and in the drizzle we learned that one fuse is rough and red' and another fuse is rougher and redder. Also, we learned that' the best way to handle grenades is to stand about three hundred yards from the point where they are being thrown by hardy soldiers of our brave army, while duds are thrown by vigorous young lieutenants from positions entirely unknown to hurlers of the baseball, the discus and the sixteen-pound hammer. Refreshed by the Christmas holidays, we approached the hrlusketry course with open minds. XVe discovered that in war no self-respecting enemy will ever be seen, for in so doing he breaks the rules: we learned that there is no sense in teaching men anything other than to shoot up the atmosphere and hope that the enemy will be where the bullet falls. Of course, we must always be careful to give the range, for that is where the large number 3 stands on the square frame and if we should give it at a place beyond the io, we would have to stop the war. Then we had care- fully to pick out a church steeple, as that was a reference pointy if there wasn't a church steeple, you sent a note to the enemy and asked him please to change his present place to one where there was a church steeple so we could go on with the war. Wye, of course, would promise him to shut our eyes while he moved so we could have the fun of guessing all over again where he was. Thus having carried out the old adage, 'fCarpenter, know thy toolsf' we, with our intimate knowledge of tenths and a scattering knowledge of the aforementioned tools, approached the shop in which our knowledge was to' be put to the test. The Tactical Section took us in. hand. Intro- duced to the mechanics of order writing, we distinguished ourselves by injecting an element into the course known as fighting the problemfl What was the mere mechanics of order writing to us, so long as we could find loud and vociferous fault with problems as stated? What did we care that the information paragraph came first provided we found in the situation something which we thought did not belong there? We spent months in the solution of thousands of problems and when the time for Brigade Nlaneuvers finally rolled around, we came to under- stand that the course was nearly over. We maneuvered, or thought we did, for three weeks,, and then came the Big Day when we unblushingly accepted our diplomas as a reward for nine. long months of tenth hunting. Again, we had our passports vised, and bidding farewell to the Amer- ican Consul, and his attractive family in Columbus, we took the first train for the dear old United States, the land of summer training camps. In those camps, we purpose to do our level best to disseminate the useful mili- tary knowledge we have gained here, knowing full well, that whatever success may crown our efforts is due not to us, but to the Infantry School. God Bless Her!

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. VICE PRESIDENT JAMES NL I-JEIDT COLONEL INFANTQY E u COLQNEL lNFANTQY ' ' DQESIDEN1' .A A .Joun w.uEAvY V SECRETARY El , ' spmmsrz wmqon