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...France. The greater part of this number are enrolled in the American Ambulance Field Service, but some have joined the Norton-Harjes Ambulance. Seven men are enlisted in the aviation service, some in the Aviation Section of the Reserve Officers' Signal Corps, and some in the training school at Squantum. Several others are on the reserve list of this school and expect to get called at any time. Four men from 1920 are in the United States Secret Service and six are enlisted in state militias...
...selected from the 500 applicants for admission to the Massachusetts School for Naval Air Service at Squantum, 30 are members of the University, who, if they pass the necessary physical examination, will enter in May. The selections were made by lot after a certain amount of preliminary selections were made, only 80 men being needed. Should any of them fail to pass the required physical tests their places will be filled by the next in order on the drawing list. Of those rejected one-half was on account of defective eyesight or lack of mathematical training...
...personnel at Squantum will consist of a commandant, three instructors in flying, an aviation ensign, a medical officer, 18 machinists, a machinist's instructor, and about 25 other men who will be in the pay of the Government...
...field at Squantum will probably be ready for use in about two weeks, and hangars are already being built to house the four new machines which have been ordered. On account of the thoroughness of the preparation which the prospective flyers will receive, only about 80 men will be accepted for the training this summer at Squantum. The school will handle 20 students in flying and ten in mechanics at one time, and four classes will probably be graduated during the summer. The school at which the men will live will be run on a military basis and under strict...
...given will be concerned with a thorough practice in the theory of an airplane, and the men who have taken the course will be much better qualified for actual flying when they are assigned a position in the service. A portion of the new aviation field at Squantum will be set aside this summer for men in the course who have entered the service, and the opportunity for experience in flying will thus be given...