Show I Boots Boots' Laundry Difficulties Cause Much Laughter I Every marine learns during his basic training days at boot camp how to do his household chores of at atall all types The chuckles in boot camp generally generally gen geri- generate from the doleful l predicament predicament pre pre- ment of fresh young boots upon their introduction to the laundry laundry laundry laun laun- dry tubs But I dont don't know how bow to do laundry laundry laundry laun laun- dry w wailed one apple cheeked lad when his drill instructor gave the boys boy's platoon its first laundry de de- de tail shortly after breakfast Well boy Ill I'll give you one minute minute min mm- ute to learn and half of at that is gone gene growled the voiced bull in in- You dont don't pull freshly starched shirts out of a drawer In Inthis Inthis Inthis this outfit The boy learned learned learned-he he had to learn with scrub brush soap and pail Marines must learn because there are no Chinese laundries where the Fighting Leathernecks go The recruits do their scrubbing clad only in swimming trunks and pith helmets With cold water water water-or or ora a reasonable facsimile thereof they thereof they c cant can't nt scrub out all stains So they use whitening agents and sometimes come to grief through inexperience Some discover fo fa their grief that too generous application of the whIteners whit whit- eners has eaten holes in iri their cloth cloth- ing lag One lad Ind anxious to be clean as the marine corps demands ap applied Op ip plied the bleaching agent to his cartridge car cartridge cartridge car car- belt and cover He was sadder and wiser alter after It turned white |