After that the regiment will entrain and will go to one of the regular training camps, where you will find it on your return from the front." His American hearers looked out on a large village of unpainted pine barracks buildings.
"That is a rest camp for troops when first they come from the transport," explained Captain Ribaut.

"Even the barracks are American, built in sections in your country, then shipped over here and set up.

The village you are passing will shelter two regiments of American infantry." Before long the Americans found themselves much more interested in the French officer's conversation than in the glimpses of his country that were obtainable.

Captain Ribaut had served from the beginning of the war and was familiar with every trick of fighting practiced at the front.

He had a wealth of information to give them---so much, in fact, that before long Dick Prescott began to jot down information in a notebook.
Toward the end of the forenoon a soldier came aboard at one station with an outfit of dishes on two long trays.