{"id":2997,"date":"2018-07-25T15:43:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T15:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/?page_id=2997"},"modified":"2018-07-25T15:43:25","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T15:43:25","slug":"august-9-1943-santa-ana-california","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/letters\/primary-flight-training-1943\/august-9-1943-santa-ana-california\/","title":{"rendered":"August 9, 1943, Santa Ana, California"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\r\n Tom’s pilot training courses are not too difficult, so far, but he’s heard rumors that Morse Code<\/a> and Math will become increasingly hard. His friend, Sam<\/a>, has left for Scott Field in Illinois<\/a>. There is a shortage of 6 cent stamps and he’s hoping his parents will mail him some.\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>Sun. morning.<\/p>\n

Dear Folks,<\/p>\n

\"August<\/a>
August 9, 1943, Santa Ana, California, Page 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It feels funny to be going to school again but the courses now are different than any I have ever taken before. That is all except math. My daily schedule runs as follows: Drill and calesthenics from 7:30 AM to 11:00 A.M.; 12:00 to 1:00 PM, Code<\/a>; 1:00 to 2:00 Gunnery; 2:00 to 3:00 Chemical Warfare; 3:00 to 4:00 Math; 4:00 to 5:00 aircraft identification and naval identification. We have this schedule six days a week with Sun. off if you don’t have MM. It so happens that I have MM this afternoon starting at 12:45.<\/p>\n

None of the courses seem especially hard so far but I imagine Code<\/a> and identification will get hard according to all reports. We will have to be able to take 8 words a min. in code and recognize 50 different planes when they are flashed on the screen for 1\/25 of a sec. All this is really a condensed course and you really have to stay on the ball to get it all in 8 weeks.<\/p>\n

Sam<\/a> left for Scott Field<\/a> Fri. and he said he would call you folks the first chance he got. I imagine they will keep him plenty busy for awhile. He is hoping to get to go to O.C.S.<\/p>\n

About 50% of the squadron is walking tours this week-end. You have to start walking after 8 gigs here and I just got under the wire with 8. Thurs. we had 2 personal inspections and 2 barracks inspections, I picked up 6 gigs that day. They usually crack down pretty hard at the first so thing will probably let up alittle pretty soon.<\/p>\n

We were the last bunch to be made A\/C’s before finishing pre-flight. All those going into pre-flight now go in as A\/S at $50 instead of $75. However, we still haven’t got cadet blouses and I doubt if we ever will, but when you get the cadet brass on the O.D. blouse you can’t hardly tell the difference.<\/p>\n

\"August<\/a>
August 9, 1943, Santa Ana, California, Page 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We have July pay day coming up this Tues. I don’t know if it will be full pay or just partial payment. I heard that we signed for $754.<\/p>\n

I received a letter from Elaine’s yesterday and they really enjoyed their visit at home. I wish I could have been there also, but I am still holding my rain check. If everything goes as planned I will probably make it back there around next April. That sounds like an awful long time, but time goes pretty fast now.<\/p>\n

I have to study Chemical Warfare for a test Mon. and I haven’t very much time before I go on M.M. Say if you want to drop a few 6\u00a2 stamps in a letter it will be greatly appreciated. They are as rare as gold around here and just as hard to get. The P. office is open only a short time and we are at class then.<\/p>\n

I will try to write alittle more now that we are getting settled.<\/p>\n

With love,<\/p>\n

Tom<\/p>\n

\"August<\/a>
August 9, 1943, Santa Ana, California<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sun. morning. Dear Folks, It feels funny to be going to school again but the courses now are different than any I have ever taken before. That is all except math. My daily schedule runs as follows: Drill and calesthenics from 7:30 AM to 11:00 A.M.; 12:00 to 1:00 PM, Code; 1:00 to 2:00 Gunnery; … Continue reading August 9, 1943, Santa Ana, California<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1684,"menu_order":3110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2997","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-from-tom-cartmell-to-doctor-and-cleda-cartmell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3001,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2997\/revisions\/3001"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}