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[out?] had plenty of time for recreation, because we got [started?] at 0630 each [morning?] - after mess. Last November I was transferred to GH[O?] to go to the C.I. with the first echelon of WACs in December; but orders were changed at the last minute when I was ready to go north - and here I am. This camp site on the Pacific beach compensates for the keen disappointment of last December. And [I am?] seeing as much of this island as I can, for I've always liked "exploring." Some of these jungle trips are exciting - to say the least, especially when crossing swift rivers - over swinging bridges no wider than this page and with a single wire rope either side to balance one on such precarious footing.

Thus you have a brief cross section of my overseas experiences of the past thirteen or fourteen months.

My work will take me on a short trip to several bases north of here to become acquainted with the S-2 Historians whose work comes here to me to be compiled into the one history each month.

As far as post-war education is concerned, I do not expect to return (after so many years); but feel that academic work - and recreation - should be geared to the mature adult experience of combat weary men rather than to the pre-war callow youth of little or no experience. My work as a college instructor gave me that idea before I left teaching in 1933 to review motion pictures. It seems that college courses were too apt to cater to those who wanted to gain