Thursday Morn
Dear Mom + Dad,
I have a
few minutes to myself so I’m going to start a letter to you and give you a few
more details than I did last night. Let’s
start back in San Antonio.
On
Monday night Peg came out to supper and she got a terrific kick out of it. Previous to her coming that afternoon we had
of all things two parades, one at three, the other at four. That sure was a fine way for us to end up our
career in flight. It made us as mad as
the devil at the time but that’s all behind now.
We had
to get up at 2:30AM and I didn’t get to bed until almost 12. I didn’t get very much sleep. We ate breakfast and took off for the
train. Naturally the train wasn’t
there. After waiting about an hour it
finally got there. Thus started our trip
almost. The distance from camp to San
Antonio is about five miles. To go those
five miles it took just about three hours.
We laid over in San Antonio for all that time be we couldn’t get off the
train so it didn’t do us any good. There
wasn’t anything unusual about the rest of the train ride except the length of
time it took us to get here. The darn
train seemed to go awful slow, in fact it did.
It took us almost a day and half to travel 600 miles, so figure it out
yourself.
We pulled
into Pine Bluff about 2:00PM yesterday and boarded buses to come out to the
field. Then we signed a few papers, ate,
assigned to barracks, unpacked, got our books, etc. In doing those things we spent the rest of
the day and evening. Then a slower,
shave, wrote to you and then to bed on my innerspring mattress. I really slept on that thing last night. It was swell.
In fact the living conditions here are top notch, good food and good
quarters.
We start
out on our schedule of classes today. I
think that tomorrow we will go up for our first flight and possibly even
today. They don’t waste anytime on us
here. I’m ready for it, as I’m anxious
to find out whether I can fly of not.
Let’s hope so.
The field
itself is not very large. The only ones
here are the cadets and there are not too many of them. It will get increasingly smaller as we start
flying as almost 50-80 of us are destined to wash out unless we should have an
unusual group. That seems like a high percentage
but this is where they begin to take the toll on us as we do actual flying.
We get
weekends off most of the time. From 7 to
11 on Saturday night and from 7 to 7 on Sunday.
So at least we will have a little time off now and then. I’m not quite sure just how out time off
works but the above is reliable as far as I can determine.
I guess
that’s about all the dope I can give you now.
I’m hoping for the best and I’ll try my darnedest to make it. Write me soon.
All my love
Bobby
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