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Final and definite arrangements have just been completed for the Massachusetts School for Naval Air Service to be established at Squantum this summer. This school, which will open about June 1 and will be conducted by one of the subcommittees of the Massachusetts Committee of Public Safety, is intended to supply the navy with a carefully selected body of young men sufficiently trained and skilled to pass any tests for provisional enrolment in the Naval Reserve Flying Corps or Class V of the United States Naval Reserve Force...
Standard navy sea-planes and supplies will be given by the Government to the Squantum School. Twenty students in flying and ten students in mechanics will be handled at one time, and it is expected that four or five classes will be graduated during the summer. The school at which the men are expected to live, will be run on a military basis and under strict discipline. Subsistence will be provided but no uniforms are required of furnished...
...student flyer will receive a retainer pay of $12 per year, but will not receive duty pay during the course of instruction at Squantum. Upon graduation, application will be made for a provisional commission as ensign in the Naval Reserve Flying Corps. After three months' service under the provisional grade, the student will receive a confirmed rating by qualifying before a professional board...
...Massachusetts School for Naval Air Service is to establish instruction camps in order to give students sufficient training to admit them to the Flying Reserve. An aviation school will be opened at Squantum this summer to provide just such training. Admission is open to those between 18 and 24 years of age who can pass a rigorous physical examination. After finishing the work at Squantum, the men will take a course at Pensacola, Fla., before being enrolled as officers in the Reserve Flying Corps...
...small number of aviators now in the Government service, the graduates of this school will have an exceptional opportunity for advancement. It is expected that from 60 to 80 men will be graduated during the five months that the school will be open. After finishing the course at Squantum, they will take a course at Pensacola, Fla., before being enrolled as officers in the Naval Reserve Flying Corps...