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Chief of Staff of the Philippine Army and Minister of Defense, was boning up at Oklahoma's Fort Sill (artillery) for a fighting return home...
...just take what the CAA says don't do-and do it," is Colonel Ford's description of the training of a grasshopper pilot, who comes to Fort Sill with 60 hours of elementary training from the Air Forces...
Here was my experience: I left Fort Sill, Okla., at noon on a Saturday, and arrived in Oklahoma City late that afternoon, expecting a reservation (for which I wired ahead two days previous). . . . Reporting to the train at the appointed hour, I found that although I already possessed a Pullman reservation, it had been sold again to a civilian who already occupied the berth (it being then 11 o'clock). Therefore, I rode in a coach sitting upon my suitcase-no seats there either, all night and half of the next day-contemplating my reservation, which I still held...
Handsome Pepe, wed in 1942 at San Diego to blonde Mignon Summers, onetime Powers model, aroused President Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Rio's ire early this year. Enthusiastically, the six-foot novillero of the bull ring and artillery lieutenant (V.M.I.-educated, Fort Sill-trained) had started to stump Ecuador in opposition to administration candidates for Congress. Opening at Riobamba, Pepe and cohorts were moving on to Ambato when a platoon of corabineros popped up and arrested them. Given 24 hours to get out of Ecuador, stubborn Pepe balked and a 40-soldier escort literally carried him over the border...
Officer Candidate Class 64 graduated last week from Ft. Sill Field Artillery School, and with it a large number of Mil Sci men who left Harvard in February. Notable among them was Preston W. Smith '43, who amassed the highest record in the School's history. Several of the new 2nd Lieutenants were back in Cambridge during the week on short leaves before proceeding to new assignments...