With little to say it's best to keep things brief so that there's not a demonstration of how little I have to say. You've all heard "it's better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool, than open it and prove you are." 😀 So I'll post some random pictures and leave it at that.
Takk for alt,
Al
Sitting on my rack (bunk) aboard ship shows how close they were to each other. The bed consisted of canvas with grommets through which a rope was stretched. The rope was wound around an aluminum, tubular frame. ( See picture) It was quite comfortable though lacked much clearance above. My M-1, rifle hangs nearby. I was issued that rife after boot camp it was with me until we left Asia to return to the U.S. You ask, "why am I wearing sneakers?" The battalion commander mandated we wear them aboard ship to avoid scuffing the decks with our boots and they were issued to us. They caused the sailors to snicker. On one of the liberty ships the racks, in the hold to which we were assigned, were stacked ten high. The air was bad at the top but sleeping on a lower one meant that Marines above would use your rack as step as they climbed to theirs.
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