Norwich bulletin., 1921-06-16
Special to The Bulletin.)


 weeks of preparation and anticipation, Battery B arrived at Camp Devens at noon, Sunday. The Battery detrained with the rest of the battalion and with the regimental band at the head of the line marched into camp where they were str,<ge as it may seem. were used to quarter many Norwich boys who trained at this camp during the late war.
 Governor Lake and his staff are ex- pected to arrive in Camp Devens for a two days stay. While here they will review the entire Connecticut National Guard comprising in all about 1000 of fcers and men.
 The camp is running on daylight time The first order to reach us was a list of calls for the days, as follows:
 5.45 a. m., first call; 500, reveille S.30, mess call; 7.25, first call drill 7.3o, assembly drill; 11.20, first call guard mount; 11.30, assembly guard mount; 11.3O, recall drill; 1130, sick call; 11.45, first sergeant's call 11.45, officers call; 1900, m., mess call dinner 12.55, D. m., first call drill 100, assembly drill; 500. recall drill;; 500, assembly retreat; 5.15, retreat; 5.30, mess call supper; 300, tat too; 10.45, call to quarters; HOO, taps.
 The battery has about 107 enlisted men and four officers and the combat train has about 57 enlisted men and three officers.
 The camp is very much the same as 1t was a year or so ago. The moving picture theatre is running and the can teen is open where the men can buy soda, candy, tobacco, etc
 Sunday afternoon was consumed in arranging and getting settled in the bar ] racks under the direction of First Ser | geant Turner. During the latter part of 1 the day the boys were acquainting them selves with the rest of the camp, and l some of the older men were renewing ac- l quaintances made in camps of other l years and in camps overseas Mess Ser | geant Malcolm and his staff of cooks were waiting for the boys to arrive with | piping htH dinner served only as a | seasoned mess sergeant can serve and the boys whose first helping was gener. ous were seen t. line up for the third | and fourth time, first among these heavy ] eaters was Martin Burns who was warn. 1 ed by the mess sergeant that six helpings | of this style was enough for a man the | size of Scott, the giant of the battery 1 There are no restrictions as yet for the | men when their days duties are over anc l many of the men are taking advantage | surrounding cities where they are mak ing acquainted and are having a req | good time. All taxi drivers have beer
 instructed by the commanding officer
 that they must not overcharge the mel
 in camp this being the chief means O l transportation to the surrounding cities Call to quarters and taps did not meal
 anything as was evident by the followin
 incidents. While several of the old tim
 CTS who thought more of sleep tha,
 revelie were trying to get their mud
 needed forty winks they were rudel
 awakened by returning ioy-hunters a regular intervals during the night Chic
 among the amusements of the evenin
 were hobnail barrages. a volley of mes: , kits, and all night conversations
 Revelie Monday morning was not cal ried out according to regulations as u men were not in proper uniform, man { forgetting to put on their puttees son
 could not find their shoes (which wel . used as barage materiaD the previol , evening. Some were out in their shi sleeves and a few of the late sleeper
 tried to get away with answering : their names at roll call from the window , of the barracks, but it did not go vii
 the top kicker, who is not used to tn | unsoldierly conduct. Some of these car ' less men were later in the day wonde Q l ing why they were put on the sever; | details that are very familiar and nut : ! disliked by soldiers.
 After a night of fun and frolic u
 men settled down to business and u
 morning was spent at infantry drill al attending school of instruction on [ . Browning machine gun. The afterno
 was divided into four periods of inStru ton on the following subjects. A pl i' toon of men under Lieutenant Johns' . were instructed in camp hygiene al II calisthentics. Lieutenant Tongren e structed his platoon in the care of t Il 45 cal. automatic pistol Sergeant Bo in took the newly enlisted men on to O e of thu, nearby drill fields and put the
 through the first rudiments of militia n training. The battery mounted qua j. at eleven thirty this morning with Ca q tain w. R. Denison as officer of the da
 and Lieutenant Bartolucci commander r. the guard.
 is Although the guard consisted most
 of new men, a very snappy guard mou
 was witnessed and the men are walki
 their posts like regulars. This kind " guard being new and interesting to
 men they entered it whole hearted T: T: Sergeant Albert J. Turner was right 'o home as sergeant of the guard and ,s keeping things at the guard house and lc the various posts running smoothly. 0' Among the instructions layed out T. the some of the new corporals were the
 regarding their acting as fathers to t ie men under them. Although some of m privates are old enough to be fathers lg the corporals the men who have late
 acquired the honor of wearing tho IT. coveted chevrons which are more .