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Show TT la c o E ftT 4 E TT Si E M P. F. C. Joe Salisbury Scott Thorn is home now, and R. G. Sorenson, having had an operation, opera-tion, will be here soon, and you have probably seen Clarence Taylor, Tay-lor, who also had an operation, making the best of his sick leave. Most of last week was spent on more maneuvers with trips to the mountains and to the ocean. Tues- Dear Polks: Right now it's hard to think of anything to write because things go on the same as usual, and anyway, any-way, I might be home this month, and I can tell you all about it then. Yea, for some of us; in fact, most of us, the dream of a week's visit at home will become a reality, for day ana vveanesaay we went to Upper Arroya in a high canyon, 30 miles south of the post. This time we were real pioneers for we cut a road through heavy woods and then built a bridge of the native timber, giving us experience in demolitions de-molitions as well as road construction. construc-tion. Wednesday afternoon, which we had off for rest, our trusty soft- ball team played a 12-inning game 'with Company C, and ended in a 11-11-tie. Then Thursday and Friday Fri-day we built stream crossing euip-ment euip-ment while on a bivouac at Morro Bay. We constructed the floating foot bridge four times and made a record once of doing it in eight minutes, and put it out in 12 minutes. min-utes. This portable bridge is in approximately 220 pieces, besides ropes and cables, and is used to get infantry troops across wide streams having a span of 432 feet. We slept very little that night due to a terrific invasion by a great mosquito fleet, and Carl Edding-ton's Edding-ton's poison oak made him even more uncomfortable. Gee, this poison poi-son oak isn't pleasant. Several of us have it now with Matt Olsen being about the worst. Saturday we had our first drill with real bayonets. Bayonets provide pro-vide another interesting phase of our infantry training, but they also involve a rather unpleasant thought. Monday the old Eagle screamed, and you may be interested to know that pay day, the last of every month, now costs Uncle Sam over $1,000,000. We look forward to it more than anything here because we're always broke because we've purchased a radio, sent too much money home, loaned it to our |
