Little John Wilson Block shook his head hard, trying to wake himself from the hangover of reuniting with his old comrades over the past two days. He had been thrown a grand party by his comrades from his service in Germany, but he couldn't bring himself to be happy because, along with the grand party, they had given him some bad news.
In Europe, it appeared that the United States was going to build two more large military bases, but they were not for the United States Army; rather, they were for the Air Force, one in Italy, and one in Spain.