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Show The m o ENGINEEffiS P.F.C. Wayne Miller Just imagine! We have completed complet-ed twelve weeks of training and have arrived at the time when we will be given tests just to see how much we have learned since we arrived ar-rived here. The past week the Engineers have spent most of their time on the rifle and machine gun range. It seems that Co. "A" has some mighty fine shots in it. Thursday and Friday we spent on the combat range. This range is a lot of fun because the targets are of a movable mov-able type and are hard to hit, but this is very good experience to the Engineer. We have been issued our new clothing but we are not able to wear it yet. It consists of our new "suntans," but it is hot down here in the daytime and real cool at night. The fellows all wish they could wear it in the daytime, because be-cause it is really hot when you are marching in the sun and will be nice when we can wear it. About July 21 to August 8, Co. "A" will be attached to the 79th Infantry Brigade and the 143rd Field Artillery and the 115th Medical Medi-cal Regiment, and will be given a test that will include such activities activi-ties as river crossing, attack defense de-fense problems, advance guard action, security problems, night entrucking and detrucking, and night patrols. All this will be done in simulation of actual war-time conditions. Tuesday night of last week, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour and a cast of 40 people presented the Pepso-dent Pepso-dent show from the camp theatre over NBC at 6 p. m. A total of 3,000 officers and enlisted men saw the broadcast. If any of the folks at home know where there is an opening in grand opera, Sgt. Matt Olsen would like to know. It seems that Matt has gone grand opera on us, and all we can get out of him any more is a high "C" and Mess Sgt. Smith claims he hasn't given Matt anything any-thing to make him so musical. Corporal Jack Clark has been going around with a couple of black eyes and he blames it on the door, But just don't believe him because all he did was hold his rifle too close to his eyes and when it went off it blackened the optics. One thing the privates of Co. "A" will be glad for is when we are given our draftees, because the way it is now you are on K. P. duty about twice a week, and you have to peel about 200- lbs. of spuds and wash more dishes than you ever thought existed, let alone mop all the floors. Pvt. Fred Roy-lance Roy-lance says he will never cuss again when he is asked to do the dishes. Many of you folks at home wonder won-der just what the follows do for entertainment over the week-end. There are many things to do. You can go down to Morro bay, where some of the best bathing on the coast can be found. There is some mighty good fishing here and we never see Pvt. Edmund Roundy on Sunday, as he is always out trying to get his limit. Many of the fellows fel-lows attend churches in San Luis Obispo. |