Wednesday
Dear Mom + Dad,
I expected your usual Sunday letter to arrive this morning but it didn’t come. The mail gets mixed up a lot so it will probably be in tonight or tomorrow. So in the meantime I’m writing my daily letter.
I was on guard duty last night. Just another one of those crazy things with no sense. You walk around and nothing happens. You’re on for 2 hours, off for 4 and then on again for 2. I don’t think anybody would want to run off with this camp, if they did they’re crazy. It’s just an old army custom to give the boys something to do.
I have just had inspiration hit me again and I got to get it off my mind. I’m applying for the flying cadets again for the third time. I don’t want to become a pilot but I want two things. I want to be in the air corps. and I want to go to their officers school. This is the way I have it doped out. I submit my application and pass the entrance physical (I hope) and get a transfer to the flying cadets. They then give you another test for pilot, bombardier, or navigator after you get in. I flunk that by the simple expedient of my eyes being just slightly bad. I then submit my application for O.C.S. all over again. It won’t be so hard to get in if you are in the air force. I have to wait three months before I can apply again for O.C.S. so in the meantime I’ll be trying to make the air corps. anyway. If I fail the O.C.S. again I’m better off as I’m in one of the best branches of the service. It may sound crazy but it will work I hope. It is just another one of my brilliant ideas. Don’t say anything about it to anyone as I don’t want it to get out just as yet.
It is fairly certain that this outfit is going to move out. It is just awaiting the obtaining of all our equipment. The equipment is beginning to trickle in slowly but surely. As I told you the rumors have it that it will be the east coast. I sure hope it is soon. In the meantime I’ve sent for my air corp application blanks to L.A. as they didn’t have any in our office.
I hope your letter arrives today but it will soon so Bobby isn’t worried. I’ll write again tomorrow.
Love
Bob
Bob
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