When a Chinese or American unit wins a particularly tough fight, or when there's a feast day or a holiday, parachutes blossom out all over the fighting units. These packages of pleasure bear gifts of beef or live ducks, chicken or pork on the hoof, and sometimes even crates of fresh eggs. The unit's a classification officer's dream come true. Almost everybody in the battalion can, on a moment's notice , do the other fellow's job. The former truck divers are virtually operating a sub-depot, handling rail and vehicle unloading, warehousing, procurement, stock records, special packing, ammunition storage, and parachute folding and reclamation.
Native labor is used only on the less technical and less skilled work.
The unit has instructed U.S. Army officers in their air-dropping methods as well as officers and men of the British Army. Accordingly two companies of the battalion moved to another strip location, and with the use of an additional squadron of Troop Carrier planes, the new field was instrumental in nearly doubling the tonnage dropped. The expensive and highly vulnerable equipment of the Air Force Cargo Squadrons cannot be allowed to remain idle, or long exposed to enemy eyes on the ground. When a cargo ship glides in, the QM's are ready. Rarely do the ships have to wait unnecessarily for supply loads.