Dear Folks:

I am staying in tonight and trying to catch up on my correspondence. It has been sometime since I have written but things are pretty slow here right now. We are just marking time until we leave for California.

Did I tell you that I am working in Message center now? The sergeant in charge and myself handle the distribution of all memorandums, special orders, bulletins, etc. between the different batteries. I started work yesterday and it is quite a position. The sergeant went home on a three day pass at noon today and I am in charge. No kidding, I sit at my desk and send my orderly out delivering the stuff to the respective batteries. I simply take the stuff when it is handed in, route it and then send my “small boy” on his way. I have to keep a record of the time of receipt, delivery and the person who signed for the paper. You can see that it is a very hard job.

My room is just across the hall from the major and we are always bumping into each other. You see the Message Center has to be convenient for the major to use – so we are neighbors. So far I have managed to look busy all the time but it is quite a job. I really haven’t very much worth at all to do.

I hear that there will be more work to do when we got into the field. So the sergeant says but these fellows don’t really know what a hard days work is. I have worked longer and harder in Wrights than any-body ever did in the army. You can ask Tom about that – most of these fellows don’t know what a good days work is.

P.S. don’t mind the address – It’s an old envelope I found among my 43 air mail envelopes. I am just like a postal sub – station.

Joe