Dear Folks:-

Your letter of the 15th & 16th just came and of course I was glad to get it. It is fine that Mother & Sis were able to get to the lake if only for two days.

Things have been going on as usual here with nothing particular to tell about.

The men are coming in to the school little by little and I doubt if there will be 150 here by Saturday unless there is a great rush for the next few days.

Last night four of us went to Lawton, that is there were four in our particular crowd. In all there are about sixty men from the Aviation Camp go over every night. The 3rd Aero Squadron which is stationed here furnishes trucks to take us over and we load about 20 men on a truck and let her go.

Lawton is not much, about the worst excuse for a place to go I ever struck but if you stay around camp all the time you go stale and lose interest.

The course is getting to be pretty stiff. I don’t seem to get the hang of receiving the wireless code as fast as I ought, but maybe it will come after a while. I think that some of the men may be requested to leave before the end of the week due to their unfitness. I won’t go yet and I hope to be able to go all the way through but you never can tell what will happen. I never did have much work on electricity and the theory comes pretty hard.

Yes I am still with the 41st Infantry but on “Detached Service.”

We don’t have Reveille until six and after that 15 minutes of calisthenics. Outside of that we have no drill at all.

I sure would like a helmet etc, it sure will come in handy when we start flying. But be sure to have the sweater small enough so that it fits fairly tight and with narrow straps on the shoulders and large armholes so that when I want to I can wear it under a uniform coat.

Hope you are all well. I am feeling fine. Haven’t noticed the change in altitude at all.

Love to all,

Mortimer.