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Contented. At Fort Huachuca, Ariz., Staff Sergeant Peter Hardley Jr., a Negro, rejected a promotion and pay raise of $18 a month so that he could continue to carry the flag in his regimental color guard...
Mary Churchill, 19, youngest daughter of Prime Minister Churchill, got promoted to sergeant in the khaki-covered Auxiliary Territorial Service, went into action with her gun-predictor team against Nazi bombers over London. She also went to a dance in a London suburb. There she met U.S. Private and ex-Truckdriver Bill
...Feets") Adams, of Grand Rapids, Mich. When she twitted him on the size of his feet (14EE-largest issued by the U.S. Army), Private Adams turned Sergeant Churchill over his knee, gave her about 30 good-natured whacks. Said his buddy: "You know how new noncoms are." He added: "Feets is a big guy, six foot three in his socks, with hands to match. He just laid it on. She's a regular guy and, like her old man, can take...
...medication. There is also griping-an extremely important morale builder, says Private Hargrove. Typical soldier's gripe: "Our battery has the worst food in the Army. We've got the worst sergeant in the battery. No kidding, though, our platoon makes all the others look crummy." Private Bushemi, photographer, hazes a mess sergeant: "You know the one thing that's missing from this meal-the one thing that would make it perfect?" "Ice cream?" asks the sergeant. "Chloroform," says Bushemi...
...seriousness. Says Private Hargrove: "I seem to be adopting the philosophy of the old soldier: 'If it's going to happen, it's going to happen, so why worry about it?' If I sleep until too late to stand reveille, I know that the first sergeant is going to put me on K.P. Sunday. The Sunday K.P. is an unpleasant thought-for next Sunday. But why worry about...