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Typical Army Engineer
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CORP. JANEZ REBOUCHE,
who i* a typical member of the
army engineer* toldier* »ta
■oned in Alaska.
(Thud in a senes or five articles
from Headquarters of the Alaska
Defense Command.)
How many Army Engineer
soldiers there are in Alaska from
Attu to Ketchikan and back,
hacking out airfields and con
structing the other defense and
offense bases up tiere, is a mili
tary secret. But for a typical
Corps of Engineer soldier
stationed “somewhere in Alas
ka”, here is the story of Cor
poral Janez Rebouche. The
name of his outfit and the story
of his regiment can wait till
peace, but his own name and
his drawl, which is as good at
French as English, tell you he
comes from French Louisiana
Shrevepoit.
Janez Rebouche volunteered
for Army service about 2 years
ago, down in Shreveport. Older
! than draft age, he enlisted “Le
cause I figured to help get it
over.” His original Infantry out
fit is making headlines lately in
Munda. and while you never
hear of Janez and his Engineer
Company nor the vital post they
i have helped build, tho Alaska
Defense Command considers
them the equal of any headline
makers yet reported.
Around a year ago, Corporal
Rebouche was in Seattle from a
nearby camp on a 24-hour pass.
He walked around town all night
Pecanse there was no place to
stay but he didn’t mind - - “some
city and pretty, too.” The first
thing, when the war’s over, he’ll
really see Seattle for a month or
so, and second, he’ll climb a
round on Mt. Rainier again,
heading on home and maybe
back to Alaska “like a lot of the
rest,” He wants to get lost again
in New York, too, somewhere a
long the line.
Corporal Rebouche was trans
ferred to the Engineers down in
the States when Major (then
Captain) Kenneth E. Ristau re
quested him for technical En
gineer troop work that could use
Rabouche’s welding, .-teamfit
ting, and rigging talents on some
special Engineer jobs. Now, ten
houis a day, seven days a week,
Corporal Rebouche welds on a
military installations, unspeci
fied.
Rebouche’s post isn’t too far
from a good-s zed city, as Alas
kan towns go, but only four
times in the last ten months ha»
he taken a pass to town. Town,
he figures, is not only pretty far
away but there’s nothing to do
when you get there and the
civil service girls available to
take dancing are "already stak
ed out and goin’ steady.’’ He
goes occasionally to post shows
and visits around neighboring
huts but he’s “tired of not hav
ing anything to think about and
you get tired of going to movies.”
When Corporal Rebouche first
came to Alaska, he carried his
two barracks bags and full pack
out into the snow-covered woods
and put up a tent with his bud
dies. Those first weeks when it
went around 40 below, the
breathing holes in sleeping bags,
even inside tenta were covered
with ice, and shoes were frozen
by the time the outfit had to
stand reveille of a morning.
Digging into the nearly pei«
petually frozen Alaska earth was
a tough job, raising the defen
ses, putting in the housing, fix
ing the frozen wilderness into
the specif cations of a command
post was not easy, but the En
gineers were at work on it and
Rebouche’s outfit joined in, a
long with civilian construction
workers sent up to help rush th«
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