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U. S. ARMED FORCES--continued
From North and South, Negro and white raw Army recruits come to Infantry Training

[[image: black and white photograph showing 4 young men in civilian clothes. Two are white, two black. They face a man in a peaked cap who is white and smiling. They stand by painted signboard bearing the following words]] [[sign]]INITIAL RECEIVING POINT
9TH INF DIVISION
Personnel Reporting
TO FORT DIX
REP[[ORT]] HERE [[/sign]] ]]

[[caption]][[bold]] Our World [[/bold]] followed two recruits arriving at Fort Dix from start to finish of their initial processing, a four-day transition from civilian to Army life. [[/caption]]

[[image: black and white photograph of four young men, possibly same ones as in last photo, indoors and drinking from cups, standing around a heater. One is speaking to a man in uniform.]] 
[[caption]] [[bold]] Recruits Emmanuel Green [[/bold]](left), Buffalo, N. Y., George Hopper (2nd from left), white enlistee from Portage, Pa., enjoy coffee and doughnuts at Dix. [[/caption]]

[[image: 11 young men, some in uniform, sit listening to a man in uniform who stands facing them.]] [[caption]] [[bold]] Listening to reception [[/bold]] orientation talk, Green and Hopper are given a quick run-down of what to expect during basic training, the peace time Army's role. [[/caption]]

[[image: black and white photo: A young black man has his chest measured by a young man in uniform, looked on by other recruits]]
[[caption]] [[bold]] Every detail [[/bold]] is considered as the two recruits get clothing measurements. Like 250 others who drew gear that day, they ended up with 80-pound packs.[[/caption]]

[[image: black and white photo: at the front of the line, the black recruit has the fit of the waistband of his pants checked; behind him the white recruit is taking off his pants and smiling while and another waits in line]]
[[caption]] [[bold]] Clothing [[/bold]] specialist checks Green's trousers. For the 17-year-old youth it was a novelty. It was "nothing new" for ex-Navy man, coal-miner Hopper. [[/caption]]

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[[image: black and white photo: Two men stand behind a counter on which lie folded shirts. One checks the fit around the collar of the recruit on the other side of the counter. The three men in the foreground are smiling.]]
[[caption]] [[bold]] They're in it [[/bold]] up to their necks now: Green and Hopper get collar measurements before entering the final one of three loaded aisles of clothing. [[/caption]]
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