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? - - ' THE LIFE OF A MARINE. I c Thought possibly some people who j Tead The Press and Banner may be f ' interested to know something of the j life of the "Devil Dogs", or the U. t S. Marine; and as I am an Abbeville t boy, I think the only in the Marine j Corps from Abbeville, I will try and < tell something interesting about our t life. ' f .* To make the story interesting, I i will have to begin with our first 1 . landing on Paris Island. We reached Port Royal about nine .o'clock and i were hustled into J>oats which car- i ried us out to the Island, which is ^ about two miles distant. On the < jy - v. * i ? Dock we were all 'looked over' by a 1 doctor to see if we had any symp, toms of the Flu. Our next stop was j the Quarantine Station, or Appli- J cant's Camp, as it is known here. < g Then we had our first "Marine Corps j Chow" (Chow is breakfast, dinner ; t or supper, but this time it happened ? to be supper). That night we were < issued blankets and linen?no pillows 1 at alL Next someone began giving j our first orders. We were divided < S)?V ' into squads and put in bunk houses < & for the nieht. ^ w v Next morning, being our first < morning on the Island, we thought ] . we would be allowed to remain in 1 bed until time for 'chow,' but our 1 V' -pleasant reflections were suddenly < broken up when we heard "All you ] birds who came in last night and ] yesterday, outside for roll call?on the double." The idea of being told i to fall out for roll call was not so 1 . bad in itself, but be invited out at 1 i. , five-thirty your first morning is very < ? unpleasant indeed. v 1 ' ? . We had 'chow' that morning a lit- * ale late, we should have had it at six-thirty and didn't have it until six , t forty-five. That's not much late, but ! in fho Marino Pnrne vnrt hnvo fn hoi < 'u? on time with everything. : That day we were issued our uni-| v-. forms. I thought they were giving1 me a double supply, but I did just!' - what anyboly else would have done. ' I ept all they gave me. It turned |->v"* . out th$t it all belonged to me in the end. After getitng our clothes, we llglPigiw n r i ra rifi PI r-?f?r j i I "The Bii || I Cast In< 1 HENRY W ij MAX s: I ! ROSEMAt 1 GLORU i j ! I! -i:-' !l ?TI 9 I I" j * * 11 They're c r |j the worn? |! !j Op( | Admissio: ^maiarajiuiiJEmiLmnLn ''iiic ^ v' . fi ' / lad to have everything stamped with < >ur names. When you begin that 1 rou have an ordinary day's job beore you, but we had to stamp ours ( n less than half an hour. In the af- . ernoon we were given the examina- ^ ion that so many applicants fail to 3 )ass. The "Regular Marine Corps" , ixamination. About two thirds of , ;he outfit passed. A few failed how- ] iver. That night we had |or chow ] vhat makes the marine corps famous, ( 'beans, onions, pickles and beets." ] The next few days we were kept : mder a strictr quarantine, and dur- j ng those few days I thought they j j vould work us to death, but to think : )f it, we had very, very little to do ( ;o what we have to do now. On November 6th we were formed ' nto a company and the companies ' iormed into a battalion. The next : lay we 'sroved off' from the quar- i mtine station and went to one of i ;he training camps?a good country : seven miles down the Island?with < >nly one stop. At this camp we were i jreated more like human beings. We' ilso received better chow and also irilled eight hours a day. Every : )ther day we were given police duty. : When we were in this training :amp we did everything from being put on "spud detail" to work half ;he night unloading a barge of wood. We stayed in this camp for fifteen iays and from there we. went to the Main Training camp where the company is located at the present time. About this time we were told the armistice had been signed and. the svar was over. We were all awfully jlad the fighting was over, but you :an believe me, we were some sore' bunch of boys that we did not get jver -.to give a hand?in "teaching the| Kaiser." 4 ' v Instantly after our arrival at the Wain Training Camp we were told | we would have to shoot on the rifle range the next week, as our company r.;a3 being rushed through for Some; reason or other, -'and our company was the hr.ppisst bunch of men on, the'Island at that time. We were' not only glad to shoot on the range,; but it was" cfcir opinion that we were rushed through for some reason or - Wit hi *th of a m 1 1 *"* ? eludes.... I ALTHALL FANLEY IY THEBY V HOPE IE C ill fighting th in who is tr nk era 11 t I )ther, and most likely so we could i o je sent some place for 'police work. I s The first week on the range was 11 levoted to "snapping in" o rwe just d limed at the targets and squeezed c ;he trigger on a blank shell, or rather d 10 shell at all. The next week prov- ^ id very much more interesting, as e ive shot at the targets now. After having shot for two days practicing, t [^as unlucky enough to be near a i: jun which exploded and it was just f my luck to get hit. A piece of the j rifle got me on the arm breaking it s in two places; another piece hit me b in the head putting me out for a few s minutes. Well then I thought my e chances for shooting with the com- i panj^were migthy slim, so I just s went out and watched them shoot, i Three days before the company shot i for record I- took my arm out of the j sling, and the day they shot I shot too. Our company made the highest record ever shot on this range, an^ one boy made the highest record ever shot by a boot. In our company we had twenty expert riflemen, twentyone sharpshooters and twenty-three marksmen; I myself qualified as a sharpshooter, missing expert by three points. Only two men in the company failed to qualify. Well, after we had finished up on the range we were scheduled to catch it for at le^st eight weeks. As you see the Marine has to take fourteen weeks of training before, he is is a qualified Marine. We were drill- < ed from seven in the morning until eleven, and again from one in the afternoorj until four. You know 1 for all time you have to work over 1 Viniira T7/M1 naiH timo ] and one half for it. Among the j 1 most interesting trings we had to do j1 were Swedish and Bayonet practice.j Bayonet practice is very interesting, i if you take any interest in it, and if ] you dont take some interest in it, i you are out of luck. I: When you fifst go to the Bayonet:Assault course you are just naturally 1 \ seared speechless watching the coach-j1 es duelling with each other. YouJ think the next instant you will see;] one drop over with a bayonet stuck;.' through his ribs; but when you get': ^radically Ti itinn ? ai # I . presents I, A Story of the generation of W by War '1 ' ? r . >t. . ;f. ;rej e war?The ansfigured b) ces country z J H GUI Adults ut there yourself duelling with 1 omeone, you lose all fear and go at ' k as if meant your life if you didn't o right. I suppose it may have aught you napping if the coaches' idn't keeu you going all of the ime. _We had bayonet practice ev ry afternoon after chow. As for Swedish exercise, you would hink they were trying to kill you nstead of making a man of you at irst. - They start you out swinging rour arms and you think they will wing them off if they dont stop, iut still when you get through you ire not tired at all. The most interring thing on the Sweedish Field ' s to play the games they have. Posibly you have seen children playing ooster fight. Well, the children play t the right way, but the Marines put lome life into their rooster fights tnd its a fiht sure enough"" before rou end up. Another interesting hing about Sweedish is the boxing ind wrestling course they give you; 5ach and every member of the Marine Corps has to know how to box md wrestle the Marine way of doing it. ' The drilling part of it would not nterest you unless you could see a^ jattalion, or possibly a Regimental Darade. I'll admit that it is very pretty to look on as the boys in ?*reen pass in review, but let me tell 70U that it is not at all pleasant for the boys passing in review. It's very bard indeed to keep in perfect step arith the music and when such a large amount of men pass with perfect step it is something to be wondered at. I have .passed in reviews and I have watched reviews but I for my aart, prefer to watch instead of 1 iing watched. *' On January 11th I was transferred from my Company. the 41.8th. 1 and sut in the Clerical School * Detach-! ment, and am now looking to be sent to Washington for clerical workj just any day. If there is anything that you. ivould like to know about the Marine' Corps or the life of the Marine on! Paris Island which I have not told I [ would be only too glad to answer! any questions yt>u may ask, and will | "v Ok r? w\ n n ic ^aiiic . Ksrt rid ? "He. \* ''omen ^ J r I VT I man who : _ j. j n.?,. j me varcdi ibove all else i-e.-Tl 50c aniiiijniiipjnjnjnmiimnj % be only too happy to be of any ser- w dee to my friends in Abbeville. Ii Of course, you all understand that h this, the Marine Corps, is not a part s< of the Saturday Afternoon Tea Club, but a bunch of Uncle Sam's ft best fighting men ,and many a man o has died with the Anchor, World h and Eagle on his hat in France. a Private Louis R. Lawson, tl Clerical School Detachment, ' ? Main Barracks, U. S. M. C. c Paris Island, S. C. ^ v r, BAKER WANTS TO BUY NATIONAL ARMY CAMPS t c a Secretary of War Seeks Advice of ^ Military Affairs Committee?Suggestion Not Being Received With Much Enthusiasm?Con- p gress Wants Consideration a Washington, Jan. 31?Purchase by the war deDartment of sites of Gx isting army training camps would be prohibited without specific authority from congress under a resolution offered in the house today by Representative Anthony of Kansas, at the request of the members of the military committee. The resolution was introduced after Secretary Baker and Assistant Secretary Crowell had appeared before the committee to urge acquisition of the sites of all National Army cantonments and two National Guard camps, Sevier* South Carolina, and Kearney, California. Mr. Baker told the committee he believed the department had authority to acquire j sites, but that congress unques- , tionablv could stori it from enrrvine' out such a plan. Many members of the committee apparently were opposed to the proposal as outlined by the war secretary, and when he had completed his statement, Representative Anthony offered his resolution. Members -i urged that the measure be introduced j in the house, so that more formal! i consideration of it might be given by the committee as acting for con gress. The committee decided to take up the resolution next Tuesday. The recommendations were made; [_ s lSi as.... arts of the . , f t ; ! i /n , i . _ <uasr inc 1 LILLIAN - GEORGE F j ROBERT I GEORGES V AV7I -.U V I shoulders the Love?The n hursi i I Chil \ EJLiafzJZJiifijnjgianiJZJzrzji! ithout regard to future military pocy, Secretary Baker explaining that e considered acquisition of the land olely as a busin ess proposition. Retention of the national camps', Ir. Baker said, was favored because* f large investments made there. If iter dismantled, more return can be ssured the government both from lie salvage of buildings and from.the ale of the land. The National Guari amps, he said, did not involve the irge expenditures, or possible later gimbursement from sale. Rats wil Inot remain where they an not get food. Build metal bins nd cribs or rat-proof the other uildings. A much neglected source of lime, iotash, and phosphoric acid is wood shes. Q J W d* >. .. H B ^Nl Lfe '."vrr-' , Csnst'?v~ ' -l:-. Casr^Ri.^..- /' . 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