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...shell rang above us, the battalion commander climbed down into a slit trench and, with a flashlight held over a map, began to explain the situation to his company commanders...
Here's a welcome we forget. Welcome to our new battalion and class officers. They've already began to work on thing's stuff for you and me. And they should receive our full cooperation, because they promise, above all, to remember that they too are just Midshipmen like us'n and will always speak to us like Brudders, only better...
Regimental adjutant will be Class Major Stuart McCarty '44, with Cadet Captain Thomas M. Stanton '44 and Cadet Sergeant Paul B. Akin '44 filling out the Regimental headquarters. Heading the First Battalion will be Cadet Major John E. Corrigan, Jr. '44, with Cadet Major William P. Slichter '44, in command of the Second Battalion...
Heard on the steps of Cowie Hall... one ensign says to t'other ensign ... "Let's get out of here before we get trampled on. Here comes the Mosquito Battalion."...and, so help me Wopeco, a guy at my table said last Friday, "Please pass the erasers...
...years ago. His father was a bishop of the Anglican Church, who carted Bernard off to Tasmania when he was an infant and proposed that Bernard follow in his churchly steps. Bernard preferred to be a soldier. He went to Sandhurst, served in World War I, later commanded a battalion of Royal Fusiliers during the Sinn Fein trouble. But he did not enjoy that. "It was my home and my people." At the age of 40 he married. A son, aged 13, goes to school in Hampshire...