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Nile Kinnick correspondence, January-May 1942
1942-02-14: Page 01
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Sat. night Feb. 14, 1942. Dear grandma, It is now 8:20 PM, and I have come in from watch duty. As you probably know, a watch in the Navy is the same as guard or sentry duty. We students at this base have to stand our turn right along with the enlisted personnel. It seems to work out that each man gets a watch about three times a week. It won't stretch your imagination much to suspect that this guard duty in addition to our regular schedule makes for a pretty strenuous life. Tonight I had the 4 to 8 PM watch which is not so bad--at least it didn't rob me of any sleep. But on Thursday last I had the "dog watch"--from 12 midnight to 4 in the morning. Just to illustrate why it is so appropriately called the "dog watch" I shall outline the procedure. At 10:30 PM when taps was sounded I turned in with the hope of snatching at least a few winks before being called. At 11:10 PM. the captain of the watch wakened me along with the rest of the boys assigned to that duty. Sleepily, we dressed and
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Sat. night Feb. 14, 1942. Dear grandma, It is now 8:20 PM, and I have come in from watch duty. As you probably know, a watch in the Navy is the same as guard or sentry duty. We students at this base have to stand our turn right along with the enlisted personnel. It seems to work out that each man gets a watch about three times a week. It won't stretch your imagination much to suspect that this guard duty in addition to our regular schedule makes for a pretty strenuous life. Tonight I had the 4 to 8 PM watch which is not so bad--at least it didn't rob me of any sleep. But on Thursday last I had the "dog watch"--from 12 midnight to 4 in the morning. Just to illustrate why it is so appropriately called the "dog watch" I shall outline the procedure. At 10:30 PM when taps was sounded I turned in with the hope of snatching at least a few winks before being called. At 11:10 PM. the captain of the watch wakened me along with the rest of the boys assigned to that duty. Sleepily, we dressed and
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