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Robert Morriss Browning correspondence to Karl S. Hoffman, 1915-1917

1917-07-06 Bob Browning to Karl Hoffman Page 2

he feels like getting away.  It's a very comfortable feeling, this, of having a room where thirty other fellows won't be stirring around all the time.  Out at the Fort thirty two of us bunk in the same room, a hundred sixty odd eat in the same room, and those two rooms are all we have besides the front porch.  It's worth a dollar and a half to get a little privacy - and a bed with sheets on it.
The work at the Training Camp is as strenuous as ever, in fact we work harder every week.  Our day begins at 5:15 a.m. and until 9:30 p.m. almost every minute is occupied by a scheduled duty.  A little extra time is allowed for rest after meals but not very much.  We learn to shoot rifles and pistols, to fence with the bayonet, to dig trenches, to plan defenses, to make maps on a six inch scale showing 10 ft. contours, to pitch tents, to keep records, and make reports of dozens of things, as well as to drill a company and maneuver

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he feels like getting away. It's a very comfortable feeling, this, of having a room where thirty other fellows won't be stirring around all the time. Out at the Fort thirty two of us bunk in the same room, a hundred sixty odd eat in the same room, and those two rooms are all we have besides the front porch. It's worth a dollar and a half to get a little privacy - and a bed with sheets on it. The work at the Training Camp is as strenuous as ever, in fact we work harder every week. Our day begins at 5:15 a.m. and until 9:30 p.m. almost every minute is occupied by a scheduled duty. A little extra time is allowed for rest after meals but not very much. We learn to shoot rifles and pistols, to fence with the bayonet, to dig trenches, to plan defenses, to make maps on a six inch scale showing 10 ft. contours, to pitch tents, to keep records, and make reports of dozens of things, as well as to drill a company and maneuver