Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 2, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                November stars and of Tammy bargain basement Day at Payne Field t combat and two dog school court in a scene vaguely reminiscent of a weekend Sale at Macys Over 500 and wrestling Gas inched and jammed their Way into the Payne Field pcs gift shop in a concerted Effort to get one of those new watches just received in a shipment from the rest of the mob is lined up for a couple of Hundred in Back of these eager photo by base photo Uso first creates Mucho unusual at Cisneros by James Oneill Villa Cisneros it was blistering hot Here at Cisneros and very unusual for this sort of after becoming accustomed to a Cool refreshing which in the past had blown Al most constantly from the or perhaps we noticed it More while sweating out the Advent of the inaugural performance of a Uso troupe at this desert unit Arabella music a variety musical was a Day late because one of the the wound up in the Hospital at we we rent Goinsjr of Cour so we Drew on a Little More of our rapidly dwindling patience we Are so very very Happy Here at our delightful Little desert resort by the Mucho preparation was made for their the Spanish have a Lone great course i never saw an air plane in so can use a hangar for a cant we that what it is used along with being our motor operations office and you guessed our since we never Hud inthe flesh entertainment we naturally had nil bucket of White Wash splashed against the Back Wall of the hangar took care of the problem of a screen for movie pro live performers were 1 big Muy so the engineers headed by Pickering Bent to the and in a matter of three Days of considerable sweating we had almost a King size walled in with stairway curtained entrances on both spot and even with curtain time at t in House had standing room patrons included american offi Spanish enlisted men and their wives and child a few Spanish civilians fish Ermen and arabs known As moors Here from the Spanish Ca Mel corps although the curtain did not go i we have none the show commenced right on schedule Why  it might be noted Here and it if youll read on without casting improper reflection on the the show did not look too promising after seeing the cast on their five two females and three the cast included woman Ala Cass a duet vocal with King xylophone and tap dance in unison Anda smashing rendition on the Drums and King come vocal duet and co Medy using Arabella Ana the songstress of the a Jim As part the highlight of his act was making use of two from the audience to accomplish a couple of sleight of hand to Mara and Ike biggest Man on the base were the victims and the i audience ate it others in the cast were a pinup song stylist with plenty of what we All want to go Back a Young fellow with something different in Novelty songs playing his own accompaniment on the accordion and a who played accompaniment and background music for the show and did his own part with some solid Ivory our conclusion Arabella definitely has a thriving music shop with her Uso 322 and we could Mucho on the same Calls the Teheran missus Amir Abad Post Frank Mac aest Herans chief announcer for More than two didst want to go Mac is he likes he Hast gone you guessed attractive Astrik armenian resident of had just become used to being called Macdonald after her marriage a few months when her Khaki Clad Lothario departed for the Mac tried to untangle the red tape preventing his Bride from accompany in securing a Quick passport to America for citizens of Iran is harder than finding a bottle of milk on the Back porch of a mud hut in after Mac will return to radio station Ullh at its possible that his wife might hear her voice from across the sea As sort of a filler for love until that darned visa is affixed to her such Are the trials of War few left from West the pics Mayflower by Al Smith Thorr Mshar four outfits that came Over on the army transport West May Flower of the persian Gulf com Mand will celebrate their third anniversary overseas novem Ber with few of their original officers and men answering Roll Cau that Twenty different ranging from a 12man postal unit to an Engineer regiment with officers and sailed aboard the West Point from new York on after stops at Rio de Janeiro and bom Bayat the latter port they transferred to three smaller 250 offi 10 warrant 59 Nur and enlisted men slipped and Slid through the mud of Khor rams Hahr on december today pm pcs he and he the 378th port the r23rd army postal and the 19th station Hospital remain in the All have their head quarters Hie 186th pm depot just missed celebrating its third anniversary overseas by 15 the company was inactivated on the remaining 16 outfits have gone been or transferred to other not much longer in just before the i Keith pm was the five remaining original outfits had Only comparatively Small numbers of their original complements Here with the exception of the 378th port the 378th brought 906 enlisted men and 17 officers t Iran with it and on october 15 it still had one officer and 211 of the original enlisted the 523rd Apu had a perfect record from the standpoint of its it didst have a single one of the original group some West pointers transferred in from other outfits had gone chances Are that shortly after the time the first of november Rolls few if any of the Ori Ginal personnel of the Pioneer out fits will remain in the they either will be at Home or their Way anyone who has served in this ancient land will agree that they certainly deserve to by Ralph Viggers because it Jolly Well appeals to the Yankee sense of humor amet gis visiting the British dog training school at Almaza a Story about a Bull terrier so named because of two Black spots on an otherwise White right from the Deuce had shown a marked preference for natives wearing that were Roomy in the seat and narrow at the anyone dressed like that became the object of a Fero Cious no one knows Why this obsession became so fixed in deuces but it is believed that he inherited it from his Mother who had been trained to guard pos in Early Days of the desert and these pos wore baggy alas for the urge to lunge at people so clod became such a that one Day the dog mistook a pair of widely Tail ored by a brigadier a pair of native canine replacements but the other 1001 dogs trained Here since 1942 have performed a More valuable service than Deuce did that during the War Pil Ferage had reached such a High pitch that some method other than posting Many sentries at ammo dumps throughout the Middle East had to be the military police War dog proved to be the each dog replaces at least ten his hearing being More acute than the added advantage of a uncanny sense of smell sometimes a disadvantage makes the boxers and alsatian invaluable during the dogs themselves arrested 86 re covering nearly Worth of stolen War in 655 arrests were made in during training each dog has his own kindness forms the basis of the whole scheme of the dogs Are not punished and regard their masters with two types Are employed combat and the former Are trained to attack the the latter Are Given the run of hunted the Barker hears a suspicious noise or scents a he barks thus bringing to the Vicinity a handler and a com Bat dog to Complete the the intelligence shown by boxers and police dogs in this Type of guard ing is almost after completing their they Are sent to British ordnance and am munition depots in by and trans Jordan for regular Tough on thief their course of lasting about three includes Hurd Ling High jumping through Small and climbing tackling men Clad in padded fencing masks and steel shoes resembling something out of an Wells novel is most rigor Ous the dog is the thief starts but does not get far before he is tackled either at the ankle or the shoulder and thrown to then the dog lunges viciously at the mans Throat and it takes six men to pull him off the British Soldier who Are tends thief takes a terrific heat even though his suit is four inches the attackers fangs sometimes get through to his the More dual natured dog of the two is the this heavy owned animal is the Jekyll and Hyde of the canine while in the Kennel in the presence of those he knows to be his stubby Tail wags inviting affection from All but the other Side of Best witnessed on the tack Ling is Savage and blood when once he has a grip on his victims Throat neither Eluf nor gun will tear him Only the familiar words of his handler tackled Fred pretending Hite at the military police dog struggles in his leather tackling wit to escape Bella inv ferocious Boxer has just been unleashed by his handler who designated Fred the Kief falling after hurling to victim to the lunges at his Down releasing his grip for a sput Bittante held1 of his Vic Tims had he been a real the Boxer would have Clung till freds after a routine of rigorous All dogs Are Given a Complete medical Here is Andy la ment testing Garbos death can unc Linch the grip Png we treated the on the Othir seems rather different in Itiat he does not require petting or of his chief advantage Over the Bow legged Boxer is an almost unbelievable ability to hurdle great enabling him to reach More inaccessible the dogs Are treated Well and seem to think that the care they receive makes Boot Camp Worth each has his own private Kennel with an outer is groomed twice a Day and Given a periodic medical examination by competent their daily ration consists of one Pound of meat troops one Pound of eight of be and eight of although its not made compulsory by any dogs Bill of after the faithful animal serves a couple of hitches and becomes old and some Rich widow Back in knowing a will invariably open her mansion and allow the dog to drool away Bis retirement on Ner velvet