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| | Letter, August 25, 1941 |
 | | Arrived from La Guardia, at Dulles, and reached Fort Belvoir, Virginia, by bus, about 3 PM, August 19, 1941, reported to the general headquarters there, and was sent to the 84th Combat Engineer Battalion, which required another bus, as the place is SO large. |
 | | This time, it was an army vehicle, a small truck, that let me off at Battalion Headquarters, (84th,) which set me up, temporarily, at a barracks where recruits were stationed until they were issued equipment, and assigned to a specific Company in the unit. |
 | | Mostly, now, after the preliminaries, mainly lectures on military principles, swearing in, all the rest of it, we are in the vast drill field across from our barracks at Belvoir, learning the complexities of close order drill. |
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