Received Miss Moshers letter this noon but did not get a chance to read it for we were kept on the run until this evening. We got up to a very cold morning and had to put our overcoats ob and wear them to classes which made it quite uncomfortable plus the windy tents and they are so large that there is no possible way to keeping them warm, one of them blew down the other evening and what a mess this was. We also went to a lecture in the auditorium and heard a lecture on the German invasion of Poland, Denmark and Norway and it was quite interesting. We also went to the lecture on gas masks and more bandaging and then some more marching. Then I played a game of volley ball afterwards had a lot of fun…
… The dust was bad again today and everyone complained of it and the wind was hot and dry and the food was some what better. I have not had kitchen duty as yet but some of the others have. But I do not think it would be so bad.
Our training here will enable us to be what they call medical soldiers and company in the field they are on boats. They are in hospitals, field bases and in schools for the teaching of new students. In other words we are sent all over the US and even foreign places when we are through here. The only ones that they leave here are the ones they can use here which us few and the ones they train for officers. It is only for the later that I would care to stay here then it would be a chance for advancement which if I get it I will not turn down.
The camp here is about eleven miles from Abilene and there are no colored boys in this camp that I know of(f), There is one large groups of Infantry here, we can hear them practicing.
… The dust was bad again today and everyone complained of it and the wind was hot and dry and the food was some what better. I have not had kitchen duty as yet but some of the others have. But I do not think it would be so bad.
Our training here will enable us to be what they call medical soldiers and company in the field they are on boats. They are in hospitals, field bases and in schools for the teaching of new students. In other words we are sent all over the US and even foreign places when we are through here. The only ones that they leave here are the ones they can use here which us few and the ones they train for officers. It is only for the later that I would care to stay here then it would be a chance for advancement which if I get it I will not turn down.
The camp here is about eleven miles from Abilene and there are no colored boys in this camp that I know of(f), There is one large groups of Infantry here, we can hear them practicing.
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