Word: furloughs
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...biggest collective event of the leave was incurred by the 30 of our boys who partook of matrimony last week and brought back their subsequent weekend entertainment with them. For myself, after four sleepless nights on a furlough ticket, mid bawling offspring, and with special attention to one dear three-year-old, name of Ralphy, who rode backwards in the seat ahead, chin hung over the back, drippin' orange juice, and with the most unexplainable silly grin on his face for a solid 600 miles, I will be content to go on running my chances at the Touraine with...
...suggest that every soldier who can get a woman to join the WACs be given a ten-day furlough, and for each additional one he persuades to volunteer while he is on furlough, he be given a 15-day extension. Certainly a WAC for the duration is worth more to the Army than a few days of any soldier's time...
...Persuaded Tennessee's able young Representative Albert Gore (who dropped by on post-induction furlough) that good men can be more useful in Congress than in the Army. For the benefit of other anxious-to-enlist legislators, the President announced flatly that no man could legally be both Congressman and soldier...
...serviceman is not around on payday, he misses his pay. If he is on maneuvers, home on furlough or traveling, he may go payless for months till his records catch up with him. Last week the Navy came up with a remedy...
Last week the War Department gave harassed G.I.s better news than a 16-day furlough. The devilish leggings are on the way out. They will soon be replaced by leather combat boots ten inches high. The lower part of the boot is laced; the top part, into which the trouser leg tucks, is neatly buckled. Combat soldiers, long envious of the Germans' comfortable, homely field boot, thought it was about time...