Water is fine at
Camp Blanding, Fla.Ragley La. Aug 3, 1941.
Dear Friend:
Just a few lines to let you know I am located in the woods of Louisiana no man's land. Some people thought camp blanding [sic] was bad but it has nothing on this place. When it rains here the trucks slide all over the road and they have to be care-ful that they don't tip over.
I was sorry I couldn't get over to see you & your folks while I was in N H. the days went by so fast that be-fore I knew it I was back in the train headed for camp.
We left camp Blanding last Monday and arrived at this camp Friday after-noon. We stopped at four towns on the way over Tallahassee & Milton Fa, Gulfport Miss and Baton Rouge La. The first two towns we didn't get a chance to look over but Gulfport Miss was quite a lively town and Baton Rouge we went over to the capital where Huey Long was shot.
I think that we will be located at this camp until after maneouvers in Sept and that will be long enough. We have no lights in this camp and we have to use flash-lights at night and we have to sleep on the ground in pup tents. They have caught a few snakes at this camp already and the one they caught yesterday was about four ft long[.]
The big towns are quite aways from this camp so I guess we won't get to town very often while we are on maneouvers.
Well I guess that is all I can say about this camp now.
Remember me to your folks.
Earl.