Tuesday Evening
Dear Mom + Dad,
I’ve been meaning to write you all day today but for one reason or another I didn’t get around t it. So as least I’m going to rip off a short note to you anyway.
Perhaps the most important thing I should tell you is that as I predicted in my last letter I was made a Corporal. My official grade is Technician 5th class. You see there are two types of Corporal ratings. One is a straight Corporal and the other is technician 5th class or Corporal T. The straight Corporal actually has more authority but the Corporal T is a technician in a field and although his pay is the same he hasn’t quite as much authority. So now I’m Corporal Bob Haring and I’m entitled to wear two stripes with a T. (A diagram of this is drawn in the letter.) I received for this quite a pay boost. I now make 66 bucks a month now. I will draw that at the end of the month. I feel pretty good about it as I’m at least showing progress in this darn army.
I’m now on duty in the admission tent and it isn’t a bad job. I like it better than anything I’ve done so far. We have contact with everyone who comes in and it is rather interesting.
Tonight we had an awful dust storm. It blew down a few of our smaller tents and generally raised havoc with camp. This place (tent + equipment) is covered with dust. As for me I’m filthy dirty but I can’t do anything about it until tomorrow.
We finally got paid yesterday afternoon. I received a little over $50 when my deductions were taken out. So now I’m happy again.
That’s all for now. I’ll write a better letter tomorrow if I get time.
Love
Bob
Bob
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