Willoughby High School - Lens Yearbook (Willoughby, OH)

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How y'alll l'm acquiring a fine specimen of Loos-i-anna drawl. This raw bunch that has been assigned to me is strictly from south of the Mason Dixon. l am a nasty old mean Yankee Cgorshl. But how else can I pound it into their heads that this is the army Mr. Jones. l'm sure that no other squad has seen the red flag as often as mine. It was really funny out on the range. These gents seem to fancy themselves as duellers and nothing makes them madder than the sight of that red flag, or as the boys so affection- ately term it- Maggie's Drawers. The pit boys aren't soft-hearted in these matters either, for if the soldier misses the target after five shots, they gleefully wave Maggie's Drawers with a zest that infuriates the marksmen. lt's no use to demand a recount either for this would impair the pit boy's keen delight when he discovers that the target hasn't even been scorched. Yass suh! Several of these new guys are working hard at the art of becoming a Gold-Brick. They are taking first hand lessons from that greatest of all Goldbrickers, Wretched. lt reallv takes a lot of practice to become an accomplished Gold-Brick. You can't just be allergic to work, you must do lots of research as to the methods of getting out of work. A mqn of Wretcl-1ed'5 caliber CGM make Cl fifteen minute job stretch Over C1 period of days, thus rendering him immune to cer- tain distasteful details. However, the Gold-Brick is recognized as standard army equipment, cause there's at least one in every outfit. These Southern boys sho-nuff get a lot of mail, scads and scads of the stuff. At mail call we're stampeded by the sons of the south in their mad rush for V-mail from females. But sergeant or not, they'll run a hard race to beat me to the bag. We're in the midst of the dusty season at present. The place is like a desert, and any- thing faintly resembling the comforts of home is merely a mirage. We drill all day, and often at night. When we aren't actually picking 'em up and laying 'em down, we're bending the ever lovin' ear to lectures given by our Comm. officers, and say - you can throw all my old Wilkie buttons away, mom, cause a little bird from Wisconsin whispered to me that l won't be needing them anymore. llllu QE I BQ E-Q l wish a monsoon would blow over about now. When you're camping Q3 G Q? . . KJ during the Sahara season, you breathe, eat, and see nothing but dust. The may ASQ L ,J t 1 worst of it is, we're carrying on mock warfare and our meals aren't regular, is and even what we do eat is diluted with sand. 29

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xx Everybody's chest is sticking out a mile ar d , oun the post this week vm And we've got a right to pop our buttons. The big Bond Drive has ended fell and good old company B has gone far and away, over the top. The rah-rah , Q boys gave us a certificate of merit that rivals the pin-up gals on the barracks l walls. The non-coms had themselves quite a time at their banquet. Plenty of the-kind-that's- never-served-in-mess-food too. After partaking of said stuff, they listened to some lecturers. There's only one catch though-no second helpin s Al g . l in all, they told us that it was some- thing to write home about-so I did. ln keeping with the events of the sporting world, we have organized a track team in our bar- racks, We have been doing pretty well so far, and h OVC SOYTIE good ITIGY1 OH OUI' TGOFYI. fl El l X l lx YV T ly ll U L, 28

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