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[[preprinted]] 
RESERVE OFFICERS TRAINING CAMP 
FORT OGLETHORPE, GEORGIA
[[image- drawing of a small stack of cannon balls, a cannon, a small stack of cannon balls]]
COMPANY No. ^[[13]] TRAINING

ADDRESS MAIL:
MILITARY BRANCH
CHATTANOGGA, TENN. 
[[/preprinted]]

May 26, 1917.

Dear Mr. Williams

Great is militarism! For it maketh the once slovenly and inefficient ex-pedagog  laboriously scrub and polish his rifle two hours, only to be told on inspection that there is rust in the muzzle, dust in the screw-heads, and that the cause thereof is damned laziness. It maketh him display new white sheets on his bunk, folded in a certain fixed and unalterable manner on blankets folded in the same set fashion, with the pillow lying on both, and in the exact middle of the pillow the hat of the owner, with the front toward the foot of the bed. It maketh him spread across the bed, and just below his pillow, his cartridge belt, with the first-aid