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but it hasn't been posted yet.
I will know in a few days
whether I will be made a corporal
also, and be entitled to wear the
stripes. A corporal doesn't have to
do any work but laso [lasso] his squad
and go to school at night for about
three hours. That means eleven hours a day.

Three of us including "Beck"
are going to San Diego tonight and
take in a show. I haven't been there
yet, but the bunch here says it is
the deadest place in existence.

I am surely glad I am not
a rumhound, as there are 700
military police in San Diego, and
if you are even caught drunk
out of camp or with any liquor in
your possession you get $60 fine
and three months in the guard house.
The order is stickly enforced too,
and it doesn't make any difference
how good your record is, you
get it just the same. God only
knows what you would get if you
cam in camp drunk. They are
awful strict here and discipline
is the main thing. You certainly know
you are in the army.

I meet men every day I used
to know at Fort Mason, John the