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Last week the Army was busy making its lists of soldiers to be discharged as soon as possible after their twelve months' service is up. At Fort Dix, where the 44th Division celebrated its first anniversary in Federal service this week, it was announced that 1,800 one-year enlisted men would be discharged by Sept. 25. Other outfits heard similar news. Throughout the U.S., emergency soldiers suddenly lost their skepticism about the announcement that, barring a shooting war, the Army would let 200,000 one-year men go home by Christmas...
Just what kind of soldiers are they in the 44th? [TIME, July 28] Do they think they're the only ones that are grumbling? All of us are, but we aren't expressing our opinions to the public. My outfit, in particular, is located on a sandspit way out in Boston Harbor, appropriately called by an inspecting general, "one of the worst posts in the U.S. Army." Boats to the mainland are bad and athletic activities are at a minimum. Entertainment consists of old movies three times a week and a WPA show, which though appreciated is corny...
This may sound as though we're blowing our own horn but we would just like to point out to the 44th that you have to grin & bear...
Last week the 44th gave regular soldiers acute pain once again. From Companies I and L of its 174th Infantry went a telegram to Isolationist Senator Burton K. Wheeler, protesting extension of the National Guard's year of service. At week's end Major General Clifford Powell announced that this breach of military discipline had been forgiven. Next day the 44th passed through Fredericksburg, Va. From the trucks showered penciled notes-more protest. Sample text: "One year's enough. Send this to your newspaper. . . . Why not take a vote among the National Guard...
What was wrong with the 44th was a question the U.S. Army would have to answer. Interesting in this connection last week was a letter written to a friend by one of the 624,000 draftees in the U.S. Army (not stationed...