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Robert Morriss Browning correspondence to Mabel C. Williams, May-July 1917

1917-07-16 Robert M. Browning to Miss Mabel Williams Page 3

altogether preferable to a first lieutenancy in the reserves. I have been formally recommended by our company instructor so that all that remains is to get my old lame eye under the wire. It is a 20:70 eye and I don't know whether that's too bad or not, but 20:100 is allowed for the left eye in the Reserves so that even if I fail in this physical examination I feel sure of a commission. The fact that he recommends me for the regulars assures me that the Captain does not entirely disapprove of me. In fact, in calling the attention of the men to the opportunity again, just before he closed the list, he said - "You don't need to come around unless you're mighty good."
(Bows and smiles as he thanks himself for his bouquet. Then resumes - )
The fly in the ointment is that I'll get active duty at once, being assigned directly from Ft. Snelling at the close of camp, without any furlough, and even in time of peace one gets no furlough during the first two years in the service, so I won't see much of my relatives or friends until after the war. On that

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altogether preferable to a first lieutenancy in the reserves. I have been formally recommended by our company instructor so that all that remains is to get my old lame eye under the wire. It is a 20:70 eye and I don't know whether that's too bad or not, but 20:100 is allowed for the left eye in the Reserves so that even if I fail in this physical examination I feel sure of a commission. The fact that he recommends me for the regulars assures me that the Captain does not entirely disapprove of me. In fact, in calling the attention of the men to the opportunity again, just before he closed the list, he said - "You don't need to come around unless you're mighty good." (Bows and smiles as he thanks himself for his bouquet. Then resumes - ) The fly in the ointment is that I'll get active duty at once, being assigned directly from Ft. Snelling at the close of camp, without any furlough, and even in time of peace one gets no furlough during the first two years in the service, so I won't see much of my relatives or friends until after the war. On that