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A SEE BEE WRITES HOME FROM PEARY "Hello Mates — having a gruesome time} wish I were there* Boy, this is the life— they tell you £^t the recrui ting office. I’m what is generally known, in the Navy as a *boot. And are we generally known i We stf\nd out like aubangi*s fever .blister, >Boot*—that is an un-successful draft dodger with out hair. About the first thing they did to deoivilianize us when we passed through the_,,can^>, gat^es-.-t^ha^ off ic .ail ^fio p.%, WPS-sfo nOu;p. rhaiI rjsi>qu% , heaS) The. 26arrbp«ris. matqa * -MM. a i geniiy hur^ie4^Jaair^ !^tKe .‘opera-• tor- lays the clippers on -your dome, gags you: and asks-quest ions. Whether you nod ’yes* or *no» the effect is the same, your once proud pate looks like a desert oasis. Then you wipctho blood off and lenve. No Chprge, The whole procedure is financed by a local hair tonic company. When the guys ^e all in the barracks it locks like a table of unracked billard balls. The town hero is divided into throe parts. One side is the camp, the other two arc a mortuary and an insane asy lum, You get a thorough examination coming in and you go to one of the 3 areas. We‘re all Seabees, you knew C.B —he*s the only man who can walk up to a marine, look him squarely in the eye and say, ’What kept you, Bud, ’They can always find something for us to do The naval dictionary has no such word as >leisure,* But it’s nice in.the morn ings. The CPO—that’s a Sing Sing War den‘whofs beenj discharged for cruelty stjimps inland gently screams, »Fall out you ^ys^ * Then we regain consQidus- ness, dress,Vwash, brush our'teeth^ & look for our hair. Then we go out and take a generous portion of calisthenics then go to chow—called chow bocauso it tastes like Poodle or G3?eat Dane. Wo drill every day. Everything went well until the lieutenant(or something snapped up to me and barked, ’inspec tion, armsJc:* I responded instantly, Carefully rolling up both sleeves in cadencc and showed him my new vaccina tion, adding very smartly, ’it didn’t take, sir, « He didn*t say anything Just stood trembling, rod in the face I guess he was Jealous of an A/S being so smart. Well, as a reward he at once appointed me ’captain of the head.’ There I was.In one week I had advanced from seaman (Jr. Or.) to court martial to captain of the head. The head is v;hat the Tivoli calls the gentlemen’s lounge. Out on the drill field you al ways stand at attention. Attention that’s suspended rigor mortis.The only way you can get out of drill is to go to sick bay—that * 9 where _.you . report you’re ill and h^ve to die to prove it Lunch is fun. Not eating so much as guessing what it is For supper the officers let you stand at the chow win dows and d?!*ool. There was a fellow here who didn’t res pond so well lio all this nice treatment.He developed a madness & spent hours ra.v ing f.nd selling peanuts and popcorn at lectures. The C$ ; c^oult,u?;t.^,.c"ecidQ ,^wheithoi? tQ, > ^put' -r'iii5m-vin ...a: siraight, aC^j;^' ' c§ t ; .maif p ^ liie f i'r S'? man v£o ^"i'ntei’Vie^s ' us -is.a psychologint who puts you’in the'right fr,ane of nind right dffi You walk^ into his office. Ho breaks into a fiendish sneer as you enter and throws a knife through your hat. If you cio not faint you pass the I.Q. That’s fim being unconscious The only difference between ’boots’ and ’prisoners is that the latter cp,n bo par doned. Every barracks here has a npster of arms. That’s a stool pigeon with a gun. When he puts you on report you get either K,P.—that’s a torture chamber with Fren ch fried potatoes — or a change in title to John Doe DF. (dishonorably discharg ed) That means you can’t ‘ iiol'^.; public ""office for-the' rest of your life; It’s aw ful, ‘ liko boin'g a "Republi can, l^m Just kidding'foll ows, it’s a wondc3?ful place hero, (I will continue writ ing as soon as the Ensicn quits twisting ny arms.) (Submitted by Bruce Alford) nr ^ dc jpl®/ -m TOm Tm: hom^ front today
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