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Here I am on a saturday after inspection. We were all issued woolen shirts and pants to be worn beneath our field pants and jacket. Someone decided they would make a good dress uniform. They were dark green. When I got mine it was not pressed. I got a crease in the pants by cleaning the stovepipe, getting the stove hot, dampen the pants and pulling them over the pipe. To keep them pressed I kept them under my air mattress during the week. The short haircut was because I had given a very bad haircut to someone in our section, with my hand clippers. It was so bad that all I could do to fix it was to cut it all off. And, of course, I was given a similar haircut. Two others were given a "sexton" haircut because of laughing. The next morning in ranks the officer said "that must have been some party". It really didn't matter. We were not going anywhere for awhile. Note the sleeping bags on the line behind me. Every saturday they were dusted with DDT by our medic and hung up to air out. |