Saturday Morning
Dear Mom + Dad,
I neglected you yesterday by not writing but that was simply because I was so darn busy I just couldn’t find the time to write to you. I’m doing my best to write as often as possible so any oversight is just because I haven’t the time to write you.
I have been transferred out of the operating room to a different ward. There was nothing to do in the operating room but the ward I’m in now is just the opposite as we are busy as we can be. The shifts are the same as before, that is 24 hours on and 24 off. I’m off until 4P.M. today so I’ll try and catch up a little. The worst part of the job is that we have very little to work with. You see we came out here in the field with the intentions of getting equipment. It is trickling in slowly but we are still far from where we should be. It is really a shame as we have quite a number of patients with heat exhaustion to take care of. Those cases can be very serious at times as they run a very high temperature for awhile and it is accompanied by a diarrhea condition. They manage to keep you on the go all the time. Then not having enough equipment we chase all over trying to get it. Last night when I went off duty I was dead tired. I went in to Camp Young last night for my first shower in two days. At a time like that that shower is worth a million dollars. It sure makes you feel good to get that sand and dust from your outer extremities.
I still don’t know what is going to happen to this outfit. There are numerous rumors floating around but there are none of them you can put any stock in. It is fairly certain through that we are not to go back to Young. I guess it is still undecided if the maneuvers are to continue beyond the original time which is somewhere in the middle of October. There is no basis for any suppositions on our plight. It is just another case of waiting and hoping for the best to develop.
My transfer papers to detached service has not come through the office as yet. As I’ve told you military channels seem to take ungodly lengths of time to get anything accomplished. So I presume it will be quite a while. Of course my call to the air corps is still a long way from coming in. I’d like to have that transfer to detached service come in as then I can work on getting out of this medicine show until I’m called into the air corps.
My time for applying for the O.C.S is almost here again. However since I’ve been accepted for the air corps I’m going to wait on that. I’ve decided to have a crack at flying if I can make it. My round about way of making the O.C.S. has gone by the boards at present. I rather fear that I can’t pass the stricter physical exams that that will give me when I get in. I know my right eye is not quite 20/20 although it is nothing serious. Future developments will straighten everything out.
Your letter came yesterday as per schedule. I was very glad to hear that Jimmy has received his commission. I wrote to him a few days back at Florida. I hope he will receive it as he has probably been sent somewhere else now. That’s two of my friends who were just commissioned recently Jimmy and Charlie. Maybe my turn will come sooner or later. However, in a way I don’t particularly care. I’d like to have a commission in a way but I still have no particular ambition as far as the army is concerned. The army is not my career and it wouldn’t bother me in the least if I never went any higher than I am now. I’m looking out primarily for my own welfare. I feel that with a commission or in the flying cadets I’d be a little bit happier. But still I want no part of this army after the war is over. I’m here because it is my duty. If I get any advancement I’ll take it but I’m (not) going very far out of my way to seek it. I trust I have made my point clear.
Do you live on Marion St or Marion Ave. I think it is Marion Ave. but you have said Marion St so I’m kinda in a fog about it. I suppose by now you are moved as this is the 3rd of October. I know you’re in a dither right now but it will be swell, I know, after you get it all set up.
I must close now as I have a few other letters to write. I’ll try to get one off again tomorrow.
Love
Bobby
Bobby
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