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

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.1 A G -gf I 63 ,Q S I Jim. il: 4? '3 ,X ' ' , F' 5 1924- nous!-mov QA january 30-They sprang a new course at us today-Training and Management. Who is to be trained, and what is to be managed is not yet clear, but we live in hopes. I hate these four hour periods of lecturesg I never could sleep in a folding chair. The sergeant at the library told me yesterday that the Commandant had ordered him to report any officer who asked for a book after the monograph season. i The annual physical examination is over, which is a pity, as they helped to fill in our Wednesday and Saturday afternoons. February 6-The annual Benning officers' beauty show is over. Today we donned our festive raiment and paraded before the general, who told the rating officer in whispers what he thought of us. A patch of rust on my saber scabbard seemed to fascinate him, and he said a word that sounded like Inferior, but it couldn't have been. He told one captain to draw saber, and the hilt came off. February 16-Physical Torture has started-who's afraid of the Red Ace? Had my finger prints taken last Wednesday afternoon, after stand- ing in line for an hour and a half. Students who know say that the service is much quicker at Joliet and Sing Sing. Saw the field officers' class riding yesterday. Evidently the forward saddle slant and the double post are coming in again. QEditor's Note: From this point the diary becomes confused, many dates have no entries, and others are dismissed with a few illegible sentences. It is possible that by this time, over-study had affected the writer's health.j March 4-Gym today. Lost my faith in evolution, because judging how I perform on a rope, no ancestor of mine ever climbed a tree. Tried the fourteen-year-old tests todayg I couldn't place in a kindergarten meet. March 5-Lectures today. My chair broke in the middle of the second one, and I cou1dn't get to sleep again. We're starting tactics. March 14-Care of animals, tactics, stable management, physical torture, field orders, map problems. Will it ever be spring? April 5-Spring fever. A terrible disease. There used to be only one crap game on the two trains of the narrow gauge, and now there is one OIT every car. Terrain exercise today. A mean one. What's the matter with the school office, have they run out of A's and B's? 1 W J ', 'f 'Q T 1' I I ' 'L QS' :WW -Q 'bf IF fl hwy

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