Word: billete
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...Billets have been out so long that everyone has become philosophical about his own. Even those poor unfortunates who didn't originally like their assignments have begun to discover good points. As a whole, the billet-list seems to have been nothing short of fabulous and it is hard to find many officers who did not receive one of their choices--the few who did not only serve to emphasize the many...
...roommates the involved wigglings of the rhumba...the worried expression on A. J. Gregory's face as he stood anchored in formation while a squadron of fire trucks rumbled and clanged around the Yard, stopped in front of Stoughton and shot a ladder up to the vicinity of his billet...the proud look on Mr. Gregory's face a day or so later when he walked smartly into the gun bin to turn in his piece and said, "My name's Gorham."...the sheepish grin on James Gwin Zea's face when a bunch of the boys referred...
...would take a bulldozer to get through the scuttlebutt which has sprung up regarding billets. One story has it that the billets are already here--or at least the billet list--and that it is the finest group of billets ever offered to the School, also that sea and foreign shore billets comprise over 90% of the lot. The only way those rumors will ever be proved or disproved is to wait until the billet assignments are announced; and it is obvious that this announcement cannot come for several (are there enough left to add up to several?) weeks...
...Billet Fever High...
Having filled out our fitness reports, the incidence of billet fever should become high. Many men are torn between choosing what they would like to do and what they think others would expect then to do. Some do not want to disk for shore billets because they do not want to appear to be evading combat service. Our own feeling in the matter is that each man should indicate the place and position in which he thinks he can be of greatest service to the Navy. That is the important thing and if everyone will follow that rule the overall...