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to discourage anyone.
About a month and
a half after my arrival
we got up our own mess,
with cadet cooks, sargent,
and K.P's. From then
on the food was all
that could be wished
for.

Another thing that worried
all of us was the uncertainty
of our pay. The 16th F.D.
boys had their pay held up
for three months to see
weather they would get
$100.00 or $33.00 a month.
All that time I revceived
my hundred but never
got my $67.00 back pay
for December '18.