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

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'Q f1'f me 3 I 'Y 1 Q-f Agtuuezfs oouansov HREFRESHMENTSM One day the Cheef of Infantry saw a Colonel of the fighten foot looking anxiously towards the seat of his breeches, which he couldn't see because he had them on. I mean the Colonel not the Cheef, he had on Slacks. Ah-ha, sez the Cheef, That Colonel's all run down he kneads refreshment, I'll send him to Benning: they've got lots of refreshment for Colonels down there. So the Cheef sent the Colonel and a couple of his buddies, also Colonels, down for refreshments. Since that day Colonels have been coming to Benning for refreshments ever since, except may be some who live in Alabama where they got a lot of home talunt. Well this year we had 10 Colonels mostly full Colonels, QI mean the kind with eaglesj taking refreshments. They was known as the refreshment or refresher class and were parked in rest periods and at night in block 21. Well sir, the refreshers or the freshies, either or neither, had a hard time of it watching the horses and mules and other officers work all day and play- ing Ma john all night. When nobody was workin for them to look at, they rode around in bum ole reconnaissance cars lookin at the post of which there is quite a lot only it ain't all nature's wonderland. Well any how the refresh- ers did a lot of ridin which livened them up considerable cause a couple of jolts they say is good for the liver but that depends on where you were the night before. Yes sir, these Colonels were hard worked. They watched the Captains try to shoot each other with Machine Guns, they watched the Field Officers make faces at each other on the bayonet court, and they watched the Captains get Braunier doing rough an tumble games. Some how Colonels are a funny lot fha-ha-Haj they seem to like to see Captains work. I guess they think thats what Captains are for. Cjokej. But don't laugh boys the poor devils is dyin. These refreshers came in for some pretty rough treatment themselves cause they had to take Scoutin and Patrollin. They took it serious too. There's something nockcoocoo about a Col. flat on his rear echelon trying to look inconspicuous. They did most of this work on their support line, lots of cushions you know. I bet they ain't going to give any hide and seekless stuff personally when they go back to their regiments. No sir, the Captains are going to do it and then be told how Bum they are. Colonels always know all the Bum things there are. L L y z 2 Y ,I a 2 ' - - 'K l XR 'Q Q Im 9 ' 'Ja .so 'rin ,qv-Q 1 4 x I . Ink

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.1 A G N . -' N .. , Q - f im. -Q! :I ' S QA Some of them know some Bum jokes too, which is your cue to laugh when you hear them. Only donlt laugh at the refreshers on their 2nd echelons. As I've said five or six times before, these ten refreshers this year had a hard time. I guess if they hadn't known all about King Alfred the Great, it might have been harder. They got one of the most painful educations in 10 weeks that the captains ever went thru. Of course it did the Colonels good seeing the other boys do their stuff and they can go back to their regiments and be meaner than ever. But thats what Colonels are for. As for me give me liberty or death-but no refresh- ments. When I get to be a Colonel my kitchen section is going to be too Wore out to stand any knockin around Biglerville besides I feel like yfxl Caesar did when he said, See XE Naples and Die, only iI'd 'IK change it to See Benning Dj! AL once and don't come back .,, fm lvl-I until your grandchild grows up. cM1H6 aren't going to if I get 'em While they're youngj. Meanwhile I think they ought to send lots more 3 W refreshers down here. The 2 L, Captains need the work. Al- ' 0 ' f 'ld k ' h 5 ,p., ,J V so a ter some W1 wor wit 'ESQ 'lip Ma Jonk they ought to be meat for the stadium. ' . .. '2 92 'S W 5 , . -,A N, 1' 91 A-- 1 4 x 0' 7