US Naval Training Camp - Gadget Yearbook (Gulfport, MS)

Page 16 text:

Q . My . Q5 SATURDAY MORNING INSPECTION

Page 15 text:

'Y . x ' Xl: an , lv 5 1411 1.11 -rg' 'as J gan: :saws I O , ,X P I 6 .sch 4 f -I 5 X44 ' V , IJ 4 SAY, Sharp, I've lost my pass. Do you reckon you could get me one by 4 o'c1ock? I got-a-date with a jane to-night and if I don't show up my name's Dennis. I want to see Harris. I enlisted in this here outfit as 'Landsman for Aviation ' and they've got me down as 'Landsman for Machinist Mate. Have my papers come down from the Admiral's office yet? Didn't you hear me say I wanted to catch the 4:40 train? Seems to me my request has had plenty of time to get through, been in here ever since 11 .o'clock this morning. Monte, here's a guy who says he's got some furlough papers and one-cent fare slip coming. How about it? Paul K. Weaver,-an- other ' ace' here to see you about his reimbursement. Tell him the Bureau of Navigation is holding up everything in order to spend all their time dealing with his case, and he ought to hear from them in about ninety days. How do I know what sort of a ' shoot ' you are going to get for throwing bread in the mess hall? What do you think this is, some sort of a fortune-telling outfit? What's that? Will you get busted? Where do you get that stuff, you're an ap- prentice seaman already. Through the hands of the execu- tive officer, Commander G. F. Schwartz, passes every request, be it great or small. Transfers, changes of rating, issuance of passes, dis- charges, re-enlistments, or breaches of discipline, both minor and seri- ous,-all come beneath his prac- ticed eye. It is the executive officer who once each week carries out the formal inspection of the camp. It is to him that all reports as to strength and personnel of each regi- ment is made dailyg and it is to him that the men come for advice and counsel. The executive officer is personally responsible for all ordnance, ord- nance supplies and other weapons and accoutrements making up the military equipment of the camp. The postoffice and rigging loft also come within the sphere of his juris- diction and direction. L. J. Sharp, Y. lc., is, the Com- mander's right hand man. A great mass of the correspondence which comes to the Executive Office need not necessarily receive the per- sonal attention of the Commander, and the. handling of this surplus paper-work keeps Sharp busy from morning until late in the afternoon. Personal reports, both monthly and annual, are made out under Sharp's direction. The record room, which also fur- nishes working space for a number of stenographers and strikers neces- sary for the carrying on of the great mass of detail connected with the operation of the Executive Office, is in charge of Charles R. Harris, Y. lc., who acts as Sharp's assistant. Several yeomanettes as well as a hard working bunch of lesser would-be yeomen add greatly to the rapidity and accuracy with which the daily routine is carried through. - Eleven

Page 17 text:

Postr FFI E HE camp postoffice, at pres- ent housed in the disbursing building, is presided over by Daniel T., Dodson, Y. lc., assisted by Silent Boedecker and Miss Florence L. Bailey, Y. 2c. Since the rookies began to arrive Daniel has been forced to work long hours, and as far as possible has prevailed upon his help to bear a hand as long as they will keep at it. It is hard for the individual to realize the huge mass of mail of all descriptions which passes through the camp postoffice each day. Many a country town postmaster doesn't handle as much work in a month as Daniel does in one hour of an ordi- nary working day. Dodson and his doughty assistants however are used to hard work and a truck load of mail sacks holds no terrors for them. In addition to the assistants above named the personnel of the post- offce also includes an erstwhile birdman and a one-time seaman guard, known as Dutch and Nick, respectively. True, they are lesser lights, but they form a necessary cog in the machinery. The above named Daniel Dodson is the originator on this camp of the expression, How you making out? an expression which has been taken up and repeated by his shipmates with such maddening repetition that it has driven some of us almost to the verge of insanity. ., .4 Thirteen