Word: billeter
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...Briggs, the frantic borrowing, lending, and devouring of the hall's incredible stock of Pocket Book murder mysteries ("Death in the Dawn" challenges in popularity the latest Memo change) . . . out of all this, dank, drab and insidious, emanates a contagious disease . . . known only to Naval personnel in training . . . billet fever! One may detect the more obvious symptoms at first glance...
...tomorrow, officers wishing special assignments during the late September leave must apply stating their specific choice of billets. Officers wishing alternative billets in case their first choice is not available must so indicate. Duties at the assigned billet will be rather general with emphasis on observation...
...submariner rarely leaves voluntarily (though he may if he likes). He must be pushed out by age (40 is old) or disability or promotion. Many a sub captain (usually a lieutenant commander) regrets the third full stripe which costs him his ship and sends him to a more comfortable billet afloat or ashore...
...objection of the center block was that of the students as a group: THAT DAY of getting out into the field and putting our larnin' to work has been set ahead that much farther. But the sincere desire to know the job and be well-equipped on taking a billet has overcome the first disappointment. Only the girls in the supply group, who believe they will know plenty by May 27, still feel double-crossed. Maybe the original six weeks is long enough to learn supply. We suspect most everyone realizes now that six weeks was never long enough...
...Superintendent Kersey's most spectacular achievements have been extracurricular. When battle-bound soldiers began to arrive in Los Angeles after Pearl Harbor, Kersey promptly offered to billet them in his schoolhouses. He laid down cots in corridors and gymnasiums of his 30 high schools, called on his cooks and students to man the kitchens, bedded & fed thousands of soldiers, who decamped each morning to let classes go on. Of an evening Superintendent Kersey, persistent in his good works, would have his students entertain the soldiers with dances, operettas...