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Last week, after ten days of set exercises in the 600-mile-square area south of Nashville, they met in mimic battle-the Fifth (Regular) and 27th (New York National Guard) Divisions on one side, the 30th Division (Tennessee, Georgia, North and South Carolina) and the 153rd Infantry Regiment (Arkansas) on the other...
...maneuvers one night last week near Camp Blanding, Fla., the loth Medical Regiment, night-foundered, weary, was glad indeed to hear the order to bivouac. One unit in particular got its pup tents up in jigtime. It had found a nice level space in the heavy woods. They turned in, slept like logs. Screeching brakes of an unlighted ambulance woke them. They had camped in the middle of a road...
Ordered to 28 days of active duty last week was Colonel Hamilton Fish Jr.. of the U.S. Army's Specialist Reserve.* Congressman Fish helped to organize a Negro regiment (the crack 15th Infantry, now the 369111 Coast Artillery) during World War I, served in it as a captain, and won the Croix de guerre. As a procurement officer in the Specialist Reserve, Colonel Fish will have more use for a pencil than for a gun, will presumably return to his loud duty in the U.S. House of Representatives after his Army month is over. While...
Mahogany-hued, leather-hided Colonel Oldfield is, among other valuable things, one of the most skillful "robbers" in the Army. By that word of praise Army men mean that he can find more ways to get needed materials for his outfit than a regiment of M.P.s and quartermasters could possibly guard...
After the demonstration and inspection of equipment by the visitors, the regiment reassembled and with the salute from the evening gun was dismissed