Huber, Lawrence N., 1963-1966
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"Huber 1964 Journal Simon would never make a good sargent. He is the kind of guy that would walk up to a private and ask: Do you want to dig a lotrine today Private so-so? Another thing is everyone says we don't have to do this island we [illegible] can do it on the next I.s. We have been to 5 wheels so far, haven't [illegible] collected any [illegible] boobies or frigate or Red tailed tropicbirds yet. We were on Torge, the only island in the Marshall and Gilberts that is supposed to have W.T.S on it and we didn't collect one. We saw a Red rumped Rudy turnstone and a Redbreasted Brown-booby and a orange tagged brown booby on, Taka Atoll everybody was satisfied [illegible] seeing the markings [illegible] and [illegible] wanted to put out a special effort to [illegible] get [illegible] the birds. numbers. So far we have collected a little over a hundred birds, and even though we have a lot of time and at least once a day while in the islands everyday is skindiving in the lagoon for several hours and just wandering around doing nothing, Simon doesn't even consider sending about half of us out [illegible] to the ship to skin. Even when we can't do anything bird wise on the island.