re he is to go and what he is to do.
Feel no embarrassment at being ignorant of your new duties and
surroundings. The Government does not expect anything of you except
eagerness to learn and willingness to obey.
4. After reporting to your company commander or first sergeant, you
will have a bed assigned to you and you will be issued the property
and uniforms necessary to your comfort and duties. Check your
property carefully as it is issued to you. You will have to sign for
all of it. Look after your property at all times.
5. After checking your property, make up your bed and arrange neatly
your personal and issued property on or under your bed or cot.
6. Spend all your spare time cleaning your rifle and bayonet until
they satisfy your company commander. Then keep them clean.
7. Don't leave the company street or barracks on the first day,
except with the permission of your company commander. Don't ask for
this permission unless you have a valid reason.
RULES OF CONDUCT FOR CAMP LIFE
The first few days will be easy and profitable if you will read
carefully and adhere to the following plan of procedure:
1. Get up at the first note of reveille and get quickly into proper
uniform.
2. Get within two or three feet of your place in ranks and await the
sounding of assembly for reveille and then step into ranks.
3. Stand at attention after the first sergeant commands "Fall In."
Remember that this command is equivalent to "Company, Attention."
4. After reveille, make up your bed, arrange neatly your equipment,
and clean up the ground under and around your cot. The company
commander will require the beds made up and the equipment arranged
in a prescribed way.
5. Wash for breakfast.
6. Upon returning from breakfast, go at once to the toilet. Next,
prepare the equipment prescribed to be worn to drill. This is
especially important when the full pack is prescribed. Assist your
tent mates in policing the ground in and around your tent.
7. If you need medical attention give your name to the first
sergeant at reveille and report to him at his tent upon your return
from breakfast. Don't wait until you are sick to report to the
hospital, but go as soon as you feel in the least unwell.
8. When the first call for drill is blown, put on your equipment,
inspect your
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