Thursday Morning
Dear Mom + Dad,
Here I am on barracks guard again this morning. I don’t mind this job at all as it give you
nothing to do but sit around all morning and write letters, study, and
generally relax. I neglected to write to
you last night and so I will take the available time I have to catch up.
Today is our day for a physics test and it will probably be
a pip. The darn instructor we have is no
good at all and as a consequence we are suffering. I’m glad I have has physics before as it
makes it that much easier for me. I don’t
think I will have too much trouble with it if I don’t make any silly
mistakes. I’d hate like the devil to
fail it as if you are deficient in a subject on open post days you attend a
review class and it ruins your whole day.
I’m not fixing to stay here for that if I can possibly help it. It is very easy to make foolish mistakes, for
example, we had a 10 minute quiz in it about 4 days back and I got only a 75. Here’s why one of the problems answer can out
in “feet per second per second” I had
the correct figure in working the problem and I put down ft per second instead
of feet per second per second. I knew
better but anyway for leaving that off I got 25 points off. Thus you can see how easy it is to make those
little mistakes where you get full credit taken off for a silly mistake it
really hurts. I’ll just have to be more
careful and I’m fairly certain I can get a good grade.
Things otherwise are running along fairly smoothly. Our underclassmen are slowing coming around
and are beginning to know what is expected of them. There are certain good points to this class
system. I’m really swinging over in
favor of it. It really does teach you
discipline and that is what the army needs.
Of course I try to make it as easy for the underclassmen as much as
possible. You can rack them back for
something or you can trust them diplomatically.
I try the latter as I find it gets better results.
It won’t be long now before I will be moving to primary school
and actual flying. I have a tough job
ahead of me but I sincerely think flying will be fun. I wouldn’t want to flunk out of the cadets
now for anything. However in primary
about 60% are washed out because they can’t fly in the time the army allots
them. I hope I can remain in that 40% and
stay out of the 60%. There is nothing to
do but wait and see.
I guess that’s the news from here.
All My Love
Bob
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