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

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an li -'1 w i . mv xc 1 4 r f A - Q... V.: Ae gl K ,' -F V A 1924 noueusov J f, 2 'E The letters come on the examination papers in blue pencil, or sometimes in red, depending upon the artistic color sense of the instructor. I heard two red-apple boys talking about the papers we got back yesterday. One said: I got an A', what'd you get? and the answer was: I got the same as you got, you lying son of a gun! November 6-Rifle firing over. We shot for record, yesterday and today, with the expert total boosted at the last minute from 293 to 300, and a darned fishtail wind blowing at 500 and 600 yards. I crawled over the 300 line, with the help of the Lord and a lucky guess at 500 rapid. Morale high. November 7-Scouting and Patrolling today, the wood lore of the scout, smearing mud over your face, and hiding behind a chinaberry bush. The first batch of monographs come tomorrow: a reminder that mine is only two Weeks off. Looked over my list of references for Knockemoffski's Offensive Qmy subjectjg there are forty-two books, seventeen pamphlets, and eighty- seven articles in service magazines-Read one hour at the library tonight, and took notes. November 8-The first of the monographs this morning. Recipe for success: wear your best coat and a pair of pink breeches, lean on the pointer, have at least two maps with pretty ink lines to keep the class awake watch- ing themg then talk for thirty minutes. There was generous applause' every thirty minutes, on the live and let live policy. Got to hand it to the boys for putting out on their subjects. Laid off the movies tonight, and read for two hours. Finished Knockemoffski's The General Staff and its Indecision, and took four pages of notes. ' November 10-More Sneaking and Peeking today. Tore the back out of my shirt crawling in the barbed wire, and skinned one hand with a wire cutter. Learned all about climbing a tree and sniping, this afternoon.-Read for three hours tonight in Field Marshal Limberger's Raus mit Einsf' The Marshal calls Knockernoffski' a cheat, a liar, a bum general, and a fourteen- syllable word that I can't translate. Threw away my first notes and made some new ones. This monograph proposition isn't as easy as it looks. Morale falling. November 12-More monographs this morning, but didn't hear a word. Took Count de Cussemoutls history to class, and read it under the desk. Spent three hours in the library tonight, and looked up twenty-nine references, L Y 2 2 Q 'ef 5 '- Q' Q S Q ? W! ' 1' Q? 'MW' U70 ii rl lil

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In 1 4-1 g ll 'rgrf I ' g i , difw , X 9 ,-,,, N ,p ., ' . ' Aiialw vouerwlak Rather think that two or three of the section were asleep, but maybe they think better with their eyes shut. Morale going up again. December 3-Work piling up again. The Drill and Be Damned course is taking an hour every morning, and we haven't got beyond the school of the soldier. We work in pairs-the coach and dumbbell method-and the tests start in a few days. The sketching course has also begun, and it's going to be hard sledding. Among other little things to keep us working, there has been a musketry exam. Speaking of musketry, one day on the range, the in- structor called out: Any officer with experience in trap shooting, report over here. A snappy looker from the end of the company, with spurs and pink breeches, strutted out to the instructor. Our Captain was back in a minute, his face as red as his shoulder insignia. Hell, he muttered, I thought he said crap shooting! December 17--One week to go, and then ten days of vacation. We caught six hours straight in platoon tactics todayg the Reds from Alabama and the Georgia Blues fought four different battles over the same ground. Our class is getting playful. An officer next to me at noon pulled a snake instead of a ham sandwich out of his lunch box. I hope there isn't any loose TNT around the reservation. I was studying on the narrow gauge this morning, and somebody set a match to my paper just as I came to the Gumps. Dirty dog! December 22-School out for twelve days. Back in October I planned to spend the whole vacation at Palm Beach: a month ago I changed it to three days in Atlantag and now I'm going to stay the whole time in Columbus. Well, a vacation is a vacation. january 8-Exam in sketching today. I was the last one to turn in my sketch, and the only thing right about it was the code number in the corner. A fat hound vvaddled after me While I was trying to draw my map, and everybody asked me if I was using a contour dog. January 17-The Drill and Be Damnedv course finished today. There are no mourners. The monographs are over, too, but we have machine guns now. Some of them have been issued to studentsg one took his home to Columbus, and the landlady fainted. Captain Egbert jones reports that his son Aloysius got licked in school at Columbus last Week for saying that Sherman was a greater general than Lee. C Z - 1 I, Y J curl' 5 A l ff E -ve fri V 5 ' .QS 'JJ tx, ,qw gg-A 14 x ln!