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Although they have only 28 instruments for 64 members, Ferenbaugh liberated the bandsmen from KP duty and other rear-area chores, ordered them to spend all their time making music-in the front lines whenever possible. The band's headquarters were moved up from the rear to a forward command post. In addition to the regular band for martial music, there is a 13-piece dance orchestra, a four-piece "hillbilly combo," an eight-piece Dixieland jazz group, a "novelty group" for European folk songs and classics...
...realize, of course, that having our quarters cleaned daily is only one of the many advantages of being a member of this great "liberation" team. The laundry, latrine digging, area policing, etc. etc. problem is also out of our hands, not to mention that little matter of KP...
...Statue of Liberty) Division in World War I, came home to the law. In 1940 he took time off from the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals bench in Manhattan, went to Plattsburg to retrain for the new war he saw coming. One afternoon, while emptying garbage cans with a KP detail, he got his summons from Stimson...
...Change of Subject. Subjects change, says Kahn, as soldiers progress from recruit camp to the front line, where U.S. soldiers show a cold-bloodedness which "would probably alarm their families" as it does their enemies. The rookies joke about such ancient miseries as KP, blisters, close-order drill. But humor in combat is fleeting and spontaneous, often would be meaningless any other time...
...place was colorful. Mostly it was boring, but it was colorful sometimes. The sergeants, of course, come out on top in that category. Colorful? . . .! Sergeants have been written about by so many wistful draftees of World War II that they're as trite as KP, but the fact approach to ROTC was a little skeptical, usually distrustful, seldom fawning...