Entry - September 14, 1936

9.00 PM Today is Monday and I put in a pretty hard days work out working on the tractor crew. We had another show down inspection today. We must be going to move very soon.

Robert

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Comments from Chris

I had to look it up. I'm not sure how prevalent of a military term showdown inspection is any more, but it is a detailed clothing and equipment inspection. Maybe one of our military readers can comment on that type of inspection. 

As we spoke about before, the CCC camps were administered by the Army. The enrollee followed a military regimen which was disciplined and organized. This would turn out to be an unexpected benefit in the years to come. In three years from Robert's time Hitler would invade Poland (1939) and two years after that, the US would join World War 2 (1941). By then almost 3 million men had been exposed to the military through the CCC program. This training allowed the US to ramp up quickly with experienced men. 

Morning Reveille
From Robert's CCC Photo Collection