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They didn't want me. I would be an embarrassment to them and the unit for such as guard duty. However one time I did the opposite.
Was to pull weekend guard duty but there were slots for reserve in case someone got sick. Those slots where chosen by verbal exam.
I studies really hard for a day and slicked up so I did better than the rest and got reserve. Didn't have to do anything.
Finally it was getting cold, late October and I was in a barracks of students, who every morning would go, "Why don't he get up at revelry?", and someone would say, "'cause he's a holdover". It was gettin' old. I had been a holdover for something like two months. So I asked the assignments clerk to get me outta there. A week later he handed me orders for Headquarters Army, DC. That slob, I could see people shaking their heads.
Now in DC hiding was a different story. I was a Morning Report clerk, the most essential personal report kept by the army, a personal status report which had to be turned in every morning by eight or maybe nine. Normally in a small unit it would take maybe fifteen minutes, but in a unit of four hundred with another 1500 not present but carried, it was a full-time job. But I liked the hours. Started at six and off by two and went across the river into DC everyday and hung out, even living over there for awhile. These people were sharp. The idea here was don't draw attention to yourself, so that they have to make a pet project of you.
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