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20. Although you have exchanged your civilian community for a military community, you will find many of the same activities on your post or station that you have known in civil life. For example, your own organization will probably have a barber and a tailor. All soldiers are required to have a short haircut known as a "military" haircut. This is done for sanitary reasons and to secure uniformity. Your organization barber is approved by your organization commander, and is required to maintain a sanitary establishment, which is inspected regularly by the post surgeon. Your organization tailor is prepared to clean and press your uniform and make necessary alterations and repairs. Both of these activities are maintained for the service and convenience of the members of your organization. The prices are fixed by the post commander so that they will be well within your means. You will be given credit by these activities and can pay for whatever service you have received at the end of each month.

21. The post exchange is the community store, owned jointly by you and all other men on your post. It is operated under the supervision of the commanding officer and the post exchange officer entirely in your interests. All profits made in this store come back to you and your comrades in the form of recreational activities, the furnishing of your organization day room, and other similar benefits. No individual shares in these profits, and under Army Regulations, profits may be expended only for the welfare of the soldiers as a whole. The post exchange will probably operate a general store, a shore repair shop, a barber shop, and a tailor shop. Your organization orderly room will issue you, on credit, a certain amount of post exchange coupons each month, which will be accepted by all post exchange activities. The cost of these coupons will be collected at the pay table at the end of the month.

22. There will also be a motion picture theater on your post operated by the United States Army Motion Picture Service, at which will be shown one or two shows each night, or as announced from time to time. There will also be occasional free shows. The price of attendance for the regular shows is small, and payment may be made in cash, post exchange coupons, or in theater coupons. Theater coupon books may be obtained on credit and paid for at the end of the month in the same manner as post exchange coupon books.

23. A photography shop will also probably be operated by your post exchange. The photographer will make a specialty of taking photographs of soldiers at a very small cost, for which he will accept either cash or post exchange coupons. At your early convenience, have your photograph taken in your uniform and sent it home to a member of your family. They will be glad to have it and so will you, after you have returned to civil life.

24. There are also a number of other recreational activities on your post in which you are encouraged to participate during your off-duty hours. These will probably include bowling alleys, shooting galleries, baseball fields, and basketball and volley ball courts. They are provided for your enjoyment, and you should take advantage of them at every opportunity. our first sergeant will be glad to explain how you can use them and where to obtain the necessary equipment.

25. Your organization has a bulletin board just outside of the orderly room or organization headquarters tent. Make it a practice to read the contents of the bulletin board several times each day. On it will be posted various company and guard details as well as announcements as to the uniform and equipment to be worn on different occasions, the time and place where you will receive your pay, motion picture programs, and other items of interest to you.

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