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The Salt Lake Tribune from Salt Lake City, Utah • 40

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Salt Lake City, Utah
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40
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I Sunday Morning Salt Cake EVibunt March 5 1944 Barracks Bag OI Waits for HD From US or (verbal orders of commanding officer) By Tech Sgt Frank Kane CAMP KEARNS weeks back yotir correspondent in one of his Sunday columns wrote about that peculiar army ome ew for government issue and are ap- department) and woe betide the plied to most anything in the na- subordinate officer who fails to ture 0f clothing or equipment The 'XT ordinary soldier is even referred to as OI Other well known abbreviations are for command- take proper action on a from signed by the himself' A TWX is simply a military order transmitted by the tele-typewriter exchange system exchange! privileges withdrawn for a week or so Everybody knows about If (quartermaster) MP (military police) (medical department) andANC (army nurses' corps)' But most of pH the I looks forward to the day when be handed his (honorable discharge) when peace will have been declared and he can pack his duds and GO HOME No BOQ lor NCO An NCO (noncommissioned officer) is accorded certain privileges not granted to ordinary but he still barge into BOQ (bachelor quarters) and set up housekeeping there If he does he might find his PX (post jargon used by noncomsand of- officer for officer of the fleers in issuing marching ana day for charge of quarters and coming from general head drill commands to troops Thai a fof corps and A Quarters sighed by the command-jargon is typical armyese to be for absent without official leave lnS general it gets priority above found throughout the entire armed I aI1 1 forces All AR A subordinate officer carrying Everything In -the army Is according to A (army regulations) There is still another jargon to be found in the army more comprehensive and carrying with it as for: by the WD (war cial orders) GO (general orders) ululated the official sanction of the war department It is a language of abbreviations making use of the capitalized alphabet to designate the thing person jot action referred top Whereas official Washington uses this system merely to designate governmental agencies the army uses it to cover hundreds of frequently used words terms and phrases Orders a la Alphabet The language if It can be called that occurs most frequently in official military correspondence and special and general orders Certain special orders for instance relieving an officer from duty at one base assigning him to another and detailing the method of travel thereto would take up a whole page of paper and use hundreds of words unless Mm Rex Daniels Jr a Spanish SOme such system were used Mrs Rex Pugsley is a bride of Mrs Robert a recent Rosette Randolph bride Fork bride INTERIOR DECORATORS SAYt added charm and color Spring hat picture LOOKING FORWARD TO A SMART EASTER In a paragraph of 'any special orders picked at random the following capitalized terms might be found: WP (will proceed) TD (temporary duty) AAB (army air base) 0A (pn or about) POC (by private owned conveyance) TDN (travel directed Is necessary) PAC (pursuant to authority contained) DS (detached service) etc OI Gets MOS i In addition to the hundreds of terms that appear frequently in official military correspondence and orders there are an equal number that are part and parcel of the everyday language of officers and enlisted men For instance in the A A every has a MOS in addition to an A This says simply that in the army air forces every enlisted man has a military occupational specialty number in addition to an army serial number Everybody of course is familiar with the Initials I They stand 1 4 A A e-'v V- ini i Arc iKtnmtiiSiit Owr Client new in hats? 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