25 November 1941
Dear Folks:
Received the transcript and the letter of Dean Clelands. Thanks a great deal. It is going to prove a big help. Today I got my PFC warrant. I’ll send it to you as soon as I get my chevrons. Have to have it to get them from the quartermaster department. I guess I must be doing o.k. You are supposed to be in four months before you even take the exam. Well, I made it in three months. However I won’t get my pay increase until the 14th of December. Then my pay will start at $36.00 per month instead of $30.00 per month. In other words it is a $6.00 a month increase in pay as well as the increase in rank.
Wouldn’t be a bit surprised but what I will be transferred to the base at San Diego this coming Monday to the Quartermaster department of the Special Troops and take my preliminary training there before being transferred to the school at Philadelphia in March.
Just finished taking a good hot shower. It is now 2000 or 8 p.m. After I finish this I’ll do some reading and then go to bed. They also have had me start reading chapters 14 to 23 of the Marine Corps manual as all of it deals with the Quartermaster department and what I mean there is plenty to learn. But I believe I can get it in this thick noodle of mine.
Don’t know what I would do if I hadn’t brought my pipes along to smoke and also get to smoke a cigar now and then. Golly: I surely do love to smoke and read.
See by the paper where the Marines visited Monmouth. Did they recruit any?
Oh: yes I’ll also drop Dean Cleland a letter and thank him. He surely did give me a good send off.
Not much news but a line to say hello and let you know I am thinking of you.
Hope all of you are feeling fine and I also hope that some winter you can spend it in California.
Love to all,
Leo
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