Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-06-16
By Burt L. Berry. Co. B. Second Idaho

Did you ever hear of "camI
rooster? If you haven't, here 1t Is
and also, while we are at 1t, I'll try
to give you a small sample bunch
OF what we are really doing.
els, First Call +.
Just when the cocks are getting
in their longest and loudest note
our camp rooster" the bugler OF
the day, tries his luck at the game,
and when we hear the notes from
his little brass horn mingling with
those of the barnyard chanticleer,
we all turn over in bed, cuss him and
ourselves, then with, and, amid
many groans, we crawl from under
our little wooden blankets and pro-
coed to do our daily apparel in a
hasty manner, for we only have is
minutes to do 80 in, and when you
try lacing up these o. DIS and also
leggings you find that the women
with all their laces have only a
miniature string pulling session be-
side what our daily grief amounts
to.
$50, Reveille.
cant imagine from where they
derive the word but just the same,
some professional ozone nut must
have been It's father, cause when it
comes to pilling out In the early A.
M, you sure get your share at this
so-called reveille. This formation
is stood with guns and side arms
We line up and stand roll call,
which Is called by the top Sarg
Immediately the call is over we
stand at attention while the colors
are raised for the day AS soon as
the flag rests in her days position
we are dismissed with inspection
arms" and have / s minutes in which
to prepare for mess"
Gas. Mess.
Early mess" we call it, and one
of the three most important line
formations of the day When the
bugle sounds that old familiar call
OF "soupee," you can see us all hunt
ing our mess tent, where led by the
top Sarg. and the days guard not ON
post we go in single file to the
cafeteria table" where we each
receive our ration of whatever
Shorty" may have for our break
fasts. After being served" we all
hunt place at one of the three
large tables These are about 20 |
feet long and 21a feet wide. At |
present we are practicing new |
style of eating-or rather an old one
as our grandparents tell us-and it
is merely standing up to eat But
nevertheless, we soon go down" on
what our cook turns out to us.
While everything is staple very
much SO indeed) you never ate any
thing that tastes better than our
mess. Finally we look at each
other and then at Mac" If every
thing is gone we hit for the wash
buckets, where we each wash our
mess kits SO ends mess.
7;15, Fatigue.
You can almost guess from the
word what this call is, but even at
that you may not get the full ap-
probation of this period. All we
kids know it by is cigarettes, for
this Is the morning cleanup time
and believe me some forty men use
some few of these small white pills
In day The off shift guard for
the day and the men confined to
quarters do this duty, usually taking
80 minutes.
500, First Call for Drill
AS the dying notes from this call
slips away on the breeze, you nnd
is all rushing frantically about for
our hats, or such other equipment
rs we may be careless with The
1rst period is gone through without
tide arms. as this period is one of
alisthenics-and soce muscles /
Sis, Assembly. {
AT the first note of this call the
top" steps from his tent and
blowing his whistle, calls, Fall in,"
It which command we all make way {
o our places in our squads. At
present we use four skeleton squads, :
meaning four men In the front
ank and four men for the pivots
n the rear rank. After the for
nation, the officer or non-com who =
s to drill us for the day takes his +
lace at the head OF the rank, and
ssuing his command, starts us on ?
mr. first drill period. After taking r
few minutes double time, (run- r
ing) we come into company front =
rom which position we take dis q
ances for physical exercise In the