1 — I am waiting for saturday inspection. In able battery we had an in ranks inspection down in the battery street then a tent inspection. This wasn't so, when I first arrived but when we got a new CO (who was West Point) things changed. One time during the week, one of the guys had lost his cap. He searched all week. He finally got one from someone else. Our CO came into the tent, walked up to his bunk, lifted the air mattress, saw his cap and said it should not be there.
Note the log (arrow), this was used to hold the tent in place with guide ropes. One saturday afternoon I was on a detail to set up a tent for the korean KP's. It was getting late so we decided not dig the supports in too deep. We cut them off and put them only a foot into the soil. That night we had a heavy wind and the tent blew down. The log flew into the tent. Luckily none of the koreans were hurt. Needless to say we spent sunday rebuilding.

2 — The tent had a wood frame and a wood floor with clear plastic screening half way up. During the day we would roll the sides up to get more light. As it got warmer we replaced the clear plastic screen with regular screen. Our beds were canvas cots with air a mattress and a sleeping bag. There were 2 oil stoves in each tent. There was room for as many as 10 cots. There was a table and two benches in the center. Towards the back was a counter with shelves where we could wash and shave. Our water came in 3-5 gal cans which could be heated on one of the stoves. Our bathroom was about 2 blocks down the hill. We lived up on the hill away from the rest of the battery.

3 — The photo shows our tent from inside the bunker which dug into the south side of a hill. The arrow is pointing to some orange asters which I started from seed in an empty rice paddy along with radishes an some other vegetables.The paddy was on the far side of the tent. The seed was sent from home. As they got larger I moved them to a flower bed in front of the bunker.

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