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Show Selective Service Utah State Head narters WHERE WILL I GO? At least twenty times every day of the week and sometimes at home at night, our telephone rings and it is some parent or young man who wants to know if he can be sent to Fort Lewis, Camp Ord or Fort Knox, if h is drafted or ir he volunteers. Frankly we wish we had the answer but no one in the Selective Selec-tive Service, whether they be located at National or State Headquarters, can tell where any of our inductees will be sent atter they reach Fort Douglas, Utah, the reception center. The army is doing everything within its power to place men where thev will be most satisfied and where they will fit into the Army picture but to satisfy each and every inductee or even enlisted en-listed men would be almost an impossibility. Hence, some of those who thought they had been promised service at Fort Lewis are now at camp Ord and some, who were scheduled for Camp Ord are at Fort Lewis. The best advice we can give to-all to-all within the Selective Service System at this time is to promise nothing because neither you nor this Headquarters could keep the promise. The Army requisitions its men' from the Corps Area and the group on hand ready at the time the requisition arrives gets the call and makes the trip to where ever the Army decides to send them. To do otherwise To do oth-1 erwise would be favoritism and the Armv does not plav favorites.! An old Armv Colonel once told us that when he wanted to be assigned as-signed to a certain Fort in the middle West he requested the transfer and being but a mere 1st Lieutenant at the time he asked for the particular Fort-he Fort-he didn't get the assignment. Several years later when he learned the "ropes" he asked to be assigned to a camp in the Northeastern section of the country coun-try and drew th Fort whore he orisinally rennet 'ed to be sent. MORAL: Don't promise the boys any particular assignment! |