"G.I. Nonsense"

"G.I. nonsense'' is one of the few print1-able phrases among combat soldiers in Italy for the rules that trip them up in rear areas. Regulations about saluting, wearing underwear, having your wrist watch on the outside of the wrist get little sympathy or understanding from the man from a foxhole.

Corporal J. F. Brennan and Pfc. Stan Sill ran into the spider web. When they got home to the Anzio beachhead, they were still mad enough to write a letter to the editor -- in this case, the editor of the Stars and Stripes.

Three men of their tank company, they wrote, had been given a few days off from screaming shells, air raids and their own cooking to go to Naples.

"Exactly 40 minutes after they arrived . . . they were accosted by an M.P., who demanded their passes. Because of some technical error in the passes, he marched them off to jail. There they stayed for three days, along with some 25 other men from our division who had committed the same heinous crime. They were fed on C rations during this time, given a pro-(that's funny to us) and finally taken back to the rest center in time to catch their return boat under armed guard." Concluded Corporal Brennan and Pri vate Sill with restrained wrath: "Do re sponsible authorities ever realize the effect an incident like this has on the morale of troops at the front?"

*Venereal prophylactic.

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