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ie Charles wW, Elliott, Chuck, we got your letter about the

Group 17N, Sqd. D, Barr. 758, - New York travel diaries. Weren't you
heheFeP.S. (Nave) supposed to collect them? The letters
Ellington Field, Texas. that we have on file here are those of

John Buescher, Don Blair, Bill Forsyth,
Ray Evans and Mix Kissell.

To the rest of you boys who want those Christmas travel brochures prepared
for your mothors next Christmas, jt would bo well if you get your impressions
of the trip written ond send them to me right awaye

Condidate Warren De Hodges, . : Warren wrote from Ft. Leavenworth, en-
Battery 2, lst Platoon, route to Comp Davis, "Well, the big
A.A.ke School, show is about to start. Will be very
Camp Davis, Ne Ce tough for 17 weeks." On the other side _

‘ of the postcard he has the nicest looking
little black animal with two white stripes on it. It says below the picture.- |
Left our last SCENT here$ Have you heard with the two girls in Portland, —
Oregon, said when they saw a little enimal like this one Monday morning after
they had beon outwith the two soldiers the night before? One said, "What is
that little animal down the road with two white stripes on it?"’ The other’ girl’
said, "I don't knowe I think it is either a skunk or a sergeant." Writing .~
from Conp Davis, Warren says, "You have never seen mosquitoes like.they have.
here. They pull the sheet back and look at your dog tag to see if you are the ©

right type of blood before they. go to work."

Pfc. Otto 0. Schnellbacher, Otto writes and asks, "How is the six

590th T.S.S. -Flight C, * otelock rooster club coming along?" Ile
Barracks 12-17-1, refers to my 7:30 and 8:30 classes that
Gulfport Field, Miss. _ I have each morninge You have to gight -

s 7 that alarm ¢lock pretty early to roll
out of bed, but we are managing to do it.

Reg Strait, one of our newmen in physical conditioning classes, who came up
from Chanute, Kansas, where he was director of physical education, has @ seven
o'clock class of Naval Aviation Cadets. Henry Shenk has the Noval Aviators
from 5 to 6:30 peme Of course we have other classes through the day, but you’
cen see the range of class schedules, from 7 4O.Me until 6:30 p.m.

Ray Kenehl, an old Kansas graduate, who was head of the physical education de-
partment at Wichita East High School, starts with us on July“1. Dean Nesmith,
who has been civilian physiotherapist at the Olathe Naval fir Base, has now.
returned and will be with.us July 1 as one of our teachers of physical cone
ditioning and trainer of all athletic teams. ‘ie are certainly glad to have
Dean back with us.

On July 1 over 500 V-12 boys will come in Noval engineering. we will have
charge of their physical training, so it will be up to Henry, Reg, Ray, Dean
and me to put these boys in the best fighting shape possible. On July 5 and
6 the College will enroll 17-year-olds. I imagire we will have a couple
hundred of thosee We have our work cut out for us. he