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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1917
Page
11
The text portrays a camp in a wide valley shaded by scrub oaks and flanked by low hills. It details cantonment barracks for 80 men per unit, two to a company, with long company streets and exits. Shower baths line the rear. interiors hold long lines of cots for 40 per side, heads to the walls, and window openings for cooling air.
A detailed glimpse shows a week of drills, uniform mishaps, and camp routine at Iron Springs Leon Springs with schedules from reveille to taps. Barracks, mess halls, barbers, post exchange operate under coupon pay and officer instruction.
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