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Last January I went through the course at Stead with the RB-36 crew that I was on at the time. It was no picnic, but I saw no brutality or needless suffering on anyone's part. The instruction, demonstration and problems were pertinent and well presented, and had the invaluable effect of giving the trainees ... a good inkling of and preparation for what to expect...
...Stead school was the best training that I had while in the Air Force, and I'm sure all the other men who have been through it regard it with as much respect...
Your summing up of the torture program at Stead Air Force Base . . . expressed the thoughts of thousands of Air Force mothers like myself who would be accused of sentimentality for saying...
...analyzing the training at Stead Air Force Base, many of the "tortures" listed are not tortures in the popular sense of the word; they are physical discomforts. Millions, that's right, millions of men have undergone the same sensations in the ordinary course of duty. The comparisons may not be exact, but I can personally guarantee a decided similarity. For example, many an infantryman has slept in a water-filled foxhole for "hours of darkness"; frozen, greasy hamburger or spaghetti in the same condition has been eaten (albeit, without much relish) by the same infantrymen; and if anyone thinks...
...have the honor of welcoming as a permanent resident of our state, for seven days a week and 52 weeks a year, a former President and a General of the Army of the U.S.-a man who longs, as we all know, for the comforts of a handsome farm stead on the fertile soil of Adams County, near Gettysburg, in Pennsylvania...