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Show KENNETH C. BRADLEY 1 111 Will AT waco. ens Kenneth C. Bradley, an Ogden lad who has offered his services to Uricle Sam whenever and wherever they were needed, is well pleased with the Infantry service, so ho states in a letter let-ter to his father, Thomas Bradley, 114-1 Twenty-first street, a clerk in the railway rail-way mail service out of Ogden, and vell known here. Young Bradley, now a sergeant in t the Thirty-first infantry, stationed at' Waco, Texas, spent practically all of his life in Ogden. He went to the pub- --jj lie schools and is a graduate of the itfft Ogden high school. Although but 20 years of age, he has had five years' "fl service in the national ininrff. He first I enlisted in the Utah guard, by ddceiv- ! ing the recruiting officers as to his j age, a deception that, under the cir- J cumstances, was excusable. ' , Ho says that the training he received re-ceived in the high school certninly stands him in hand at the present time, especially the mathematics. In learning to aim the guns a knowledge of algebra and geometry is most important. im-portant. As an example, he states that many times the guns have to be trained train-ed on an imaginary enemy that is sup-posd sup-posd to be on the other side of a hill and the guns have to bo aimed through a certain seometricnl calculation of angles. . After returning from the border a year ago, Sergeant Bradley was mustered mus-tered out of the sorvice and went to Michigan. There he re-enlisted and was in the service when the present war broke out. At a recent examination examina-tion held for the rank of second lieutenants, lieu-tenants, he was one of twelve out of 200 men to pass. However, he did not 4 get a commission because of the fact 1? that it was later decided to place the f men from the officers' reserve in these -fetJ positions. As a result, he is now li teaching these same men how to drill 1 and they will later be placed in epiu- I mand. In spite of the fact that he has I had considerable more training. II Til rPA voarf n r. . IB ,a trip to Fiorina because of his excel- I lent marksmanship. He has maintain- I i enhe rcco for shooting that he had I From what he has been able to I S ,1G ,8,0 ihe i"1011 th"t the rog- I iment to which ho belongs will not be I sent to France before March i n I though he states that anything def ' I nite on the subject has not beS ? given I out so that all the information! neS I is mere conjecture-something some- I one else has said or heard. All ho I knows is that they are getting ready I |