Dear Dad,

This is the first night this week that I haven’t had alot to do so I though you might enjoy a letter. I received your letter yesterday. I want to thank you for taking car (sic) of the easter flowers for me. I guess you enjoyed your trip to Chicago and found everything ok. Has Karen changed much?

There is something that I would like for you to try and get me. That is a slide rule. I have looked around and all I could find are the cheap ones. They issued us one that I think all together cost the government 8⊄and it is pretty slow to use and not very accurate. With all this Physics and Navigation I have been living with this one they gave us. That reminds me I got a 100 on the Physics exam that we had. I think I have the highest average in the class in there. I don’t know if the courses are eaiser (sic) are if it is more up my line but they don’t seem to be giving me much trouble.

To get back to the slide rule; I will be sending you some more money in a short time I think so you can take the cost of it out of there. I don’t know exactly how much they cost but I think around ten dollars. If you can get one for alittle less than that, that is good, go ahead.

You asked if I wanted to go back to school. I doubt very much if it would be possible and I think I am better off here. I like it alot even if it is pretty rough but I guess the harder anything is to get the better it is. Supposedly if we wash out after going through this schooling we will get to go to OCS.^[1]OCS=Officer Candidate School I think I have been pretty lucky and this training here isn’t doing any of any harm even if we do complain alot.

Our flight preforms (sic) this Sun. during the parade so every spare moment that we have we have been practicing our monkey drill. We really have a pretty nice marching outfit even if I do say so myself, however, most of us have been together ever since we first gotin the army.

I wold like to get to be alittle early tonight so had better close.

Love, Tom