US Army Air Force Training Center - Cavu Yearbook (Goodfellow Field, TX)

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Goodfellow Field, San Angelo, Texas. Dear Pop: Gol your leller and lhanks a million for lhal check. Sure did come in handy. Gol behind a lillle lhis monlh wilh all lhe deduclions lhal came oul. P. X. bills, laundry, dry cleaning, barber shop, shoe shine boy. class book, and of course War Bonds. Did I lell you lhal our class subscribed IOO per cenl for War Bonds? And mosl of lhe fellows are laking oul as much as lhey can pos- sibly spare. They're a mighly good inveslmenl, nol only financially. bul also in democracy. So you see, we're doing our bil lwo ways. As I lold you before, we've gol a prelly lough schedule. Il's easy lo see why our pilols are lhe besl in lhe world. Reveille is al 5:45, breakfasl al 6:l5, llighl line al V7:OO, and we're flying five hours a day now which means lhal we don'l gel off lhe line unlil afler I2:3O. Chow is al I:O5. ground school al I:5O, physical lraining al 4:25, relreal al 6:IO and chow al 6:35. Then we're lhrough for lhe day unless you have less lhan a 75 average for lhe week in one of lhe ground school subiecls, in which case you have lo go lo compulsory sludy hall for an hour in each subiecl. Then some nighls during lhe week, we have nighl flying and Link Training. Il doesn'l leave us much lime for fooling around, as you can see. The week-end rouline is prelly much lhe same. Now lhal we're upper class. we can spend Sal- urday nighl in lown. So when we gel off, which is afler a personal inspeclion, we go in and for lhe firsl hour or so in lown, all lhe boys hang around lhe local drug slore. Then lhe forlunale ones wilh dales go lheir way afler lhem. Mosl of us lake our dales lo Sle-ve's Ranch House for dinner, or supper as ils known in lhe Army. Afler dinner, we head for one of lhree places, The Hangar, Shad- owland. and Ma Goodwin's Tavern, wilh lhe Tavern gelling lhe largesl percenlage. I neglecled lo say lhal mosl of us slop by lhe local package shop on lhe way and pick up a quarl of our favorile beverage. Mine slill is Scolch. We dance, drink. dance and drink, and drink some more. Thal's iusl aboul lhe only form of relaxalion lhal we have. Ol course lhere's always lhe piclures, bul we gel mosl of lhe shows al lhe Posl before lhey come in lown, so lhere you are. You cerlainly were righl aboul lhe girls in Army lowns Pop. The largesl percenlage are prelly nice, and some of lhose are really swell. Then, lhere's lhe olher kind loo, bul surprisingly enough lhe Cadels sleer clear of lhem. We've much loo much al slake lo lake any chances, you know. Then loo, il's such a relief lo meel some people you enioy being wilh, for lheir personalily alone. l've mel a swell girl, from a very nice family, and she's really a honey. She's a graduale of lhe local high school and also lhe U. of Texas. And we do really gel along swell logelher. She's a won- derful dancer, and you know how much I love lo dance. I'm prelly serious aboul her and when I gel mg congmission and wings, I lhink I'm coming back here lo gel her. You and lvlom will be crazy a oul er. Il's hard lo believe or ralher lo realize lhal in a very few monlhs we'll be lhrough as Cadels. We graduale aboul December I5lh you know, and you can bel lhal all lhe fellows are really look- ing forward lo il. Officers in lhe Uniled Slales Army Air Forces! Il sure does sound good. For mosl of us, il's a boyhood dream coming lrue. Parl of lhe besl Air Force in lhe world! Boy, oh boy! And speaking aboul flying, lhey're really keeping us busy on lhe line. As I menlioned, we're flying five hours a day. Thal lime is composed of bolh inslrumenl flying and formalion flying, We're having buddy rides now and we have quile a lime in,slrucling each olher. One of us llys under lhe hood and lhe olher observes for him. Il's really good praclice and we gel a chance loo, lo see how our buddies fly. The formalion flying is quile a bil of fun. Two of us fly on lhe wings of our inslruclor. I'Ie leads lhe formalion and is responsible for lhe safelyiof il. We have lo keep our eyes on him all lhe lime and woe lo lhe man lhal doesn'l. And lhen lhere's lhe nighl flying. Al firsl we praclice landing wilh a flood-Iighled runway. lhen wilh landing Iighls and finally wilh hooded runway Iighls. Prelly soon we'II slarl nighl forma- lio'n and also go on a nighl cross-counlry. The cross counlrys are good experience. They are long enough lo make us navigale and yel shorl enough lhal lhey aren'l loo faliguing. They are all lriangular courses wilh one landing being made, usually al lhe second field. Some of lhe fellows have gollen Iosl, bul lhe maiorily of us have come lhrough okay. We're all looking forward lo lhal nighl cross-counlry. Thal will really lell us if we've learned anylhing from lhe olhers. Well, guess lhal's aboul all lhe news now. Il's almosl lime for laps and we do love lhis sack lime. ' Wrile me real soon and again. lhanks for lhe check. Love lo Mom, and regards lo all. , Your loving son,

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