[Milsurplus] Your Tax Dollars At Work, part nnnnnn

[Clare Owens]

Well, not WW II but I was in the Army Reserve from 1965 until 1971, an
X-ray tech in a general hospital unit.  One summer camp at (then) Fort Drum
in NY we were there for the last two weeks of the summer camp season so we
spent the first week camped out in the woods packing up the field hospital
and the second week back at the old WW II 1000 bed wooden hospital packing
it up.  During the winter there was just a small clinic open for the
permanent party folks.  With one or two days to go we brought all of the
field hospital supply cases and all of the loose supplies from the big
hospital to an empty barracks room.  The orders were to make a long pile
down the center of the room of anything not in a factory sealed bulk
package.  By the time we were done there was a 30 foot pile about three
feet high.  We could take anything we wanted and put it in our cars.  There
was a storage room in the hospital where they would keep materials for the
next year's use and the permanent party guys refused to inventory anything
but full cases of supplies.

And then there were the yearly shooting range trips for "qualification"
with our ancient M1s.  They always had 1950's vintage 30-06 armor piercing
rounds in ammo cans for us peons to shoot and wooden cases of .45 ammo for
the officers.  Usually we'd see the officers putting whole cases of the .45
ammo into their cars - except for the year when the .45s were tracer.  What
a pain that was.  We enlisted had to keep going up on the berm behind the
targets to put out the grass fires the officers kept starting.  Why on
earth they ever made .45 tracer I'll never know.

Clare

On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 11:43 AM, Jack Antonio <scr287 at att.net> wrote:

> On 3/13/2017 1:01 AM, WA5CAB--- via Milsurplus wrote:
>
>> I believe that P-39's were used on Guadalcanal, except maybe they called
>> them something else.  A-something, perhaps.
>>
>
> They were called P-400s. The aircraft were from a batch built for the
> RAF, but the RAF did not accept them.
>
> Actual Army purchased P-39s were used in the South Pacific as well.
>
> Where they came up with the P-400 designation, I don't know.
>
> Jack Antonio
> WA7DIA
>
>
>
>>
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