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Whenever an officer came up the stairs, it was my job to stand at attention and yell 'Atten Hup!', so that everyone in the adjoining offices would hear and stand also. Behind me was the Executive Officer's office who was second in command to the Major. He was a Second Lieutenant who was said to be from a prominent Virginia family, but received this assignment because he was second highest scoring in Officer's Candidate School and got his choice of assignments. He was tall, lean and pimply faced and younger than I was.
The main office was to my right as I faced the stairs, in which was the First Sergeant, one of few E9's in the Army at that time, who usually came in around eleven AM, read the paper for an hour and then left for the day. There was the staff sergeant E7 who officially ran the office, but it was Whom the company clerk who actually ran everything. And there were three clerk typists. Behind this office and adjoining the ExO's was the Majors office. He was probably around forty years old, had previously been stationed in Europe, and was assumed to be some kind of hot shot, since this office had been previously occupied some decades earlier by the likes of Patton and Eisenhower.
My job was to fill out one report everyday, which had to be finished by nine at latest. The Morning Report is the record the Army uses to account for the whereabouts and status of every soldier in the Army world wide. It consisted in name of unit, location, date, name, rank, serial number, race, various codes, and listing lines for individuals that was to be of record that day, as new to the unit, signing in and out for leave, reassignment, promotions or demotions, sick leave and such.
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