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...128th Battalion on Fullaflies Island will go Bob Fortune of G. He must purchase supplies and services in the MCABM. All that this will require is a ready supply of human teeth, the currency of Fullaflies. Better visit a "boot camp" dental office before you leave...
...request of the War Department in 1929, the Southern Railway System organized a railway operating battalion. . . . While we were at peace . . . the battalion existed largely as a skeleton organization, with . . . officers . . . keeping up with military and transportation developments . . . to be prepared if they should be called. . . . That call came. . . . The battalion was then designated the -th Engineer Battalion, U.S. Army, and was the first military railway organization to be activated...
...provide practical experience in every phase of railroad operation . . . the Southern Railway System negotiated a contract with the U.S. Government making available to the battalion that part of the Southern Railway System known as the New Orleans & Northeastern Railroad, which extends from Meridian, Miss, to New Orleans, 202 miles. No charge was made by the N.O. & N.E. for its facilities, the services of its officers or employes, or the use of its property...
...delight to congratulate the officers and men of the Southern Railway System on the manner in which they have assisted the officers of the battalion and of the Military Railway Service in the training of the -th. Never has there been, in my knowledge of railroad service, a more cooperative, coordinated, unselfish and thoroughly competent help given anybody...
...officers and men who formed the battalion were led by Lieut. Colonel Fred W. Okie, formerly superintendent of the Southern's Birmingham division...