“You know, Clint, some of the boys here think that the work in regard

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to the physical conditioning-course is not necessaty. What do you really think

abeut it? Pee
I think thet it 4s very necessery. “These boys don't really comprehend
what they are in for. Last week, for example, ‘re went four successive days from
2 efoleek in the morning until six in the evening, asd then beoause of our classes
weren't allewod to go te bed unt] eleven otoloak. na the next morning we were
up at 2 again. We are in the cold and wot all day, dp to our ineos in mi. By
3:30 or 4 @eme we get inte Higgins speed boat temo = \ we wear dumgarees (big
ow - and run all day with wet: feets” It font just spending 16 hours «
day walking aleng - we are busy every minute of ‘the ‘the. We don't stop to eat,
_ even, but take rations end eat while we are 5 workle. * e8rrYrifles, knives,
bayonets and grenades. Some of the beys carry ben machine guns end mortars all
This is what we did last week. Each week we have work from 5 in the
morning until 10 ot night.
hie Yin tu schoo! I used to holler about four or five classed)
day, ond if I had had to take. lpeyeianl training three times. a week that would
have been worse. These fellews in school have ey. a conception of what
they are going in fer. When we are on night reids we come in about midnight
er l er 2 o'clock, and get to sleep about 4 hours. Even those of us who are in
tip-tep shape are dead tired. We learn to sleep any place, any time, anywhere.
We greb @ nap for half an hour or lenger whenever we can - a as wets, in the
mud - anywhere. When. I was a kid I disliked very much running threugh thistles,
briers, etc., but now we es through all ef these things and never think anything
about it; in fact, if we get te lie down on the thorns for a half-hour nap it
is like sleeping on a bed of roses. It is amazing what you can ‘take when you |
-— te, and you like ite
We recently went on a l6-mile hike in four hours in the anit. and.
then went on tactical preblems all afternoon. The next morning we started out