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1. On the Grandpre-Varennes Road East of Apremont. 2. Near Exermont. 3. At the Cross Roads Between Sommerance and Landres. 4. On Hill 240 East of Exermont.

5. North of Apremont

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A Fable

The Corporal Who Didn't Mean It

NCE there was a Corporal who answered "Here" when the First Sergeant called the name of Muggins at Reveille. He was full of Snap and Ginger and Energy, and wanted the Boys to consider him a Good Fellow. He was a great Kidder. He liked to Joke with the Boys just to show them that he was not Stuck Up because he wore two Stripes.

When the First Sergeant put him in charge of a Squad Room, Muggins was very careful to find a fitting Nickname for all the Boys.

To keep them from ever imagining that there was anything Puffed Up about him, whenever he gave any of them an order he would do it with a Smile and a Slap on the Back.

As he was no larger than the smallest man in the Room, he thought it a Fine Joke to threaten to Beat Up any man who hesitated to obey his Order. Sometimes they obeyed it.

One morning First Call for Reveille broke into the Quiet Peacefulness of the night. Corporal Muggins bounded out of Bed into his Clothes, and in his customary Breezy manner announced to the World at Large:

"Arise and shine. Up and at 'em, Gang."

Now, the only man in the Squad who was smaller than Muggins was Private

Kazamewski, who had spent the first Eighteen Years of his checkered young life not more than Five Minutes from Fifth Avenue, but a Thousand Miles from it in Standards of Etiquette.

Kazamewski had shown the Boys the night before how the Africans play Dominos, and First Call failed to Register. It meant Nothing to Him.

Muggins, in his most Kittenish manner lifted Kazzy's bunk and dropped it with a Thud and announced to One and All that if he did not get up Toot Sweet then he, as Corporal, would have to Chastise him severely.

But it was much too soon after the Other Game for Kazzy to play a new one, and he rolled over to sleep on his Other Ear.

In the very height of playfulness Muggins laced his Fingers in Kazzy's Hair and Kazzy came up Fighting.

When Muggins returned from the Hospital he was called as a Witness before a Court Martial where Kazamewski was being tried for Disobedience of Orders.

Private Muggins is now trying to find the Solution to a couple of Perplexing Questions.

Why is it that Corporal Kazemewski, who never smiles when he gives an Order, but Barks it Out as if he were the Captain, gets so much Work out of the Squad?

Why is it that in Spite of this, the Men seem to like him so well Off Duty! MORAL: If you don't mean it don't say it.

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HE question of the down-as shown in figures A and B. The fast ends of the straps are permanently sewed to the back of the haversack at the points indicated by S, figure A. The free ends of the straps pass around the haversack and shoes underneath the web keepers K and buckle at B as shown on figures C and D.

method to be employed in carrying the extra pair of shoes and the rain coat on the Infantry pack has been on the boards for a long time.

Staff Sergeant Harry Schneider, Service Company, 7th Infantry, has devoted a lot of time and study to the proposition and has arrived at a conclusion, that is worthy of serious consideration. The illustrations accompanying this article show the methods employed.

Extra Shoes:-The extra shoes are carried, one fastened on each side of the upper portion of the haversack by means of a web strap-sole out, toes

The results attained by this arrangement are four fold:

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Fig. B

1. Shoes will be held in place with but one type of strap:-Uniformity in the command.

2. All shoes will be in the same place on each haversack:-Uniformity.

3. Shoes are prevented from slipping by means of carrying strap which fits snugly against the arch portion of the shoe (See "A", figure B), and acts as a brace which the heel portion of the shoe may rest on.

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4. Shoes are prevented from working loose as when rope or shoestring is used.

Raincoat:-The raincoat is folded as flat as possible into a rectangle not to exceed 7 by 14 inches. A receptacle for the coat is made by sewing a flap to the right and left inside edges of the outer haversack flap as shown by X figures A and D. These flaps are edged so as to form a pocket when they are fastened (See E, figures A, C, and D). Straps and buckles are. sewed on the flaps as shown by O in figure D.

The folded raincoat is placed inside the flaps as shown by R figure C and is held in place by the straps as indicated in P, figure C. The raincoat pocket is held in place by passing the lower haversack bindingstrap M, underneath the bottom haversack binding strap N (See figure C) and then passing it through the buckle at Y, figure D.

The raincoat may be removed from the pocket by unfastening the lower haversack bindingstrap and pulling it down as shown in T, figure B.

The results attained by this method

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Capt. Harry M. Gwynn, Adjutant 17th Infantry

INCE the first training camp in 1917 senior officers of the army have, of necessity, been compelled to make "snap judgements" more or less, on the ability of junior officers under them. The kalediscopic changes to which officers have been subjected during the post-war period of reconstruction make those conditions still pertain in a measure.

In consequence an officer's initial bow before the commanding officer may be an important factor in determining his future rating under one of the headings of superior, above average, average, below average or inferior. Subsequent action, favorable or unfavorable, or an intermediate superior may alter this initial estimate of an officer, but the psychological effect of a first impression is too vivid. and enduring to be lightly dismissed by officers who desire to succeed in the service.

This initial bow to which I refer may be in the nature of the original introduction to the Commanding Officer at the time of reporting for duty; it may be an obligatory appearance on the "carpet" for some oversight; it may be a special detail directed by the Commanding Officer, of brief duration, or it may only mean some communication written by the officer to or through the Commanding Officer. These may seem trivial occasions upon

which to base an estimate of an officer which will stand as a record of judgement for or against him in the years to come. There is also an appearance of unfairness attached to such examples of snap judgement, judgements too, that fail to weigh in the balance that military efficiency which is based on a day-by-day conscientious performance of duty. There is, however, a certain inevitability about such estimates. There are not many officers of a regiment, under present conditions, who come into immediate contact with the Commanding Officer-such would permit of a study of an officer's character. Again, there are only a few officers, whose work, except for its conscientiousness, will reflect any marked degree of credit or discredit upon them. This is true because most of our routine performances are circumscribed by carefully prepared regulations. Thus a pound of conscientiousness on the parade ground would not attract as much consideration as a pound of bright paint judiciously applied in the barracks.

The factors which mitigate against such judgements are: the observations of intermediate superiors, who perforce come into closer contact; and, additional opportunities to bring your work or your personality more frequently before the attention of the Commanding Officer. Even in such cases your initial bow is still the first impression, and as such, it is worthy of a moment's thought.

There are in the army three general classes of officers: those who keep them

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