Partial letter – last two pages
With several other letters from Feb/Mar in an envelope postmarked March 8
(written after basic training – missing page 1 on United States Army stationary)
… work on even papering to do.
It has been raining here for the last couple days and it has given ,e just a little bit more reason to like it here. Back in basic we would work out even in a cloud burst but yesterday afternoon we had classes inside so that we wouldn’t have to work in the rain. At least they give us afair chance to keep well. Of course, we will be out in a lot of bad weather before this is over but there is no sense of going to extremes at the expense of health.
It cleared up this afternoon and we had an unusual class in airplane identification. We had a couple of classes in Benning on this but it was mostly from pictures and we didn’t get too much from it. But today we went out about a mile to the airport and saw the actual planes. We didn’t get to see them on the ground but they came down to 25 feet or less for us to get close ups of them and they did a lot of performing to show us their stuff. Boy some of them sure have got power.
I wonder what the chances of you getting my watch fixed are.
Well I’m pretty sleepy and I think I had better do a little reading before I turn in.
Love, Donald