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Captain REILLY5 Guard Officer of
the Barracks departed for Fort
Richardson and Marine Barracks 3
Kodiak on the 19th of September
in connection with his additional
duties as training officer. We
asked the Captain to comment on
the trip and how it feels toleave
the island after 16 months .aboard'.
Here are some of his comments!
"Of course everyone is anxious
to visit other areas of the Alas
kan Command while they are here.
My business Drought me
nto contact
with representatives oi the first
Battle Group of 23rd (Army) In
fantry and members of Marine Bar
racks 3 Kodiak. The association
with military outside of Adak were
such that I developed a realizat
ion o Harmony not only exists in
our section of ALCOM but evidently
exists throughout the entire Alas
kan Command. This was my most
pleasant observation. The second,
was trees. (Joyce KILMER was
right).
The morale of our people(all
Adnkians. ) is on a par with Kodiak
and Anchorage. This was evident
just by the topics of conversation
that dominated any group of two or
more. (I eavesdropped). Concern
over world situation, the best way
to smoke Salmon and Maris 1 sixtieth
home run were on the top of the lis.1
Friendly inter-service chiding
took place, of course, and I bel
ieve I left everyone with the im
pression that Marines will take
second to no service and Sailors,
Marines 3 Army, and Coast Guard of
Adak will do more with what they
have than the' same services of the
rest of ALCOM with what they have.
The good old horse-and-buggy dayssthen
you lived until you died and not until
you were just run over.
Will Rogers_
They argued that we don’t have trees
out here as an obstacle to our pro
gress - I had to agree.
All in all, the trip was pleas
ant, interesting and rewarding.
It was however, very pleasant to
return to my command, my family,
the new improvements around Bering
Hill and the always smiling, alert
and squared away presence of our
Basketball season is on us now
and this year looks as though there
is going to bo a lot of competition.
The Marines haven't had any pract
ice since the Labor Day Tournament
and it may take them a while to get
back in the groove but it shouldn't
take long. They have a good pro
spective team this year and have
have big hopes for the season.
Lot's help them along in trying to
achieve them.
BOWLING
The Marine "A" bowling team is
now in second place as they won 3
games from A/C Maintenance while I
losing one. They are in hopes of
recapturing first place next week
as they clash with the red hot Army
team. In order to be in first place
again the Marines have to win 4 of
i4 games from Army. Let's wish them
;.luck and hope they can do it.
They have had a real.fine season
so far this year. Maybe they will
continue to go about their winning
ways.
Representative Howard W. Smith of Virginia
likes to tell the story of the county prex
ecutor who wondered why a certain juror
always voted for conviction, "Why do you
vote that way, is it the judges charge,
the brilliant summing up by the prosecutor
or what?" the prosecutor asked the juror.
"0, I don’t pay no attention to that
stuff, X just look at ’em and say to my
£,elf,1 If they a in *t...guilty,. whatfr£ they_
doin* here?" said the juror.