[Magdalen] Safely home

[Jay Weigel]

Yes, Christopher, you do.....a little bit, anyway. And apparently a lot, in
some cases. Adam was almost to the point of banging his head on the wall
trying to make some of the recruits understand them....since he was not
allowed to bang *theirs*.

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 11:59 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> In a message dated 11/14/2014 11:23:03 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> cervus51 at gmail.com writes:
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> Wait!  You have to be taught to read maps? I thought it was just
> intuitive.
> Honestly, I don't ever remember anyone teaching me about  them.>>>
>
> At Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, TX, where the 300 physicians and
> dentists in my class in late summer of 1966 marched like "lumps of
> bunches" and "bunches of lumps", map reading was actually taught.
>
> During our week at the infamous Camp Bullis where one can "experience
> a dust storm while standing waist deep in mud", we had a night map
> reading exercise that concluded with all hands being accounted for,
> much to the relief of the seasoned Army Infantry teachers and the
> numerous armadillos that we spooked during the exercise.
>
> But what I remember best about Camp Bullis was the latrine which
> consisted of 75 toilet stools in a row without any privacy screens
> It.......took some getting used to.
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> David Strang, Major, US Army Medical Corps Europe, Retired.
>