Barracks bags are painted with the owners' names and are stacked for loading. We are going to be moved to the strip to load on to the LCM's. I have only one worry and that is what do I do with my parakeets? As long as I have the stick, they can fly free because they will always return to it. The native told me so, and he has been right.  I'm not their owner, the stick owns them. Perhaps like the Army owns all of us. I wonder when we'll both be free. Pondering this, I shall take them with me. Plenty of time to let them go, or give them away after I learn what is to be ahead.