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Show News From Kcarns Office of Pub ic Relations Basic Training Center (No. 5) AAFTTC, Kearns, Utah. OFFICK OF PUBLIC RKLATIOX KEARNS, UTAH Mothers who have worried about the healvh of their sons in the army air force may rest assured that their boy's physical condition ic considerable con-siderable better than when he left home. A questionaire circulated among the thousands of trainees at the army air forces basic training center at Kearns disclosed that 42.5 per cent of them have gained an average of 11 pounds since entering en-tering the service. Keep 'Em Flying Uncle Sam makes every hour count in training his soldiers for duty even the convalescent hospital hos-pital patient 'at the army air forces besic training center get their military instruction and light exercise. Lectures on everything from military courtesy to identifications identifica-tions foreign aircraft, plus mask drills are becoming a daily event for patients who are not quite well enough to return to duty with their training groups, it was disclosed dis-closed by Col. Converse R. Lewis, commanding officer of this post. Keep 'Em Flying 1 The annual state conference of Utah's National Society of Daughters Daugh-ters of American Revolution was held at the basic training center last Saturday, March 20. It combined com-bined both business functions, election el-ection and a tour of the post. Keep 'Em Flying The command, "Commence firing!" fir-ing!" was heard at this post for the first time last week as the Kearns pistol and sub-machine gun range opened amid a hail of ,45 caliber shells. . The range consists of forty life-size, life-size, waist length silhouette targets. tar-gets. Trainees, at a distance of 25 yards, fire point blank at them. Pefore a trainee ever gets to fire the Thompson sub-machine gun which fires a 16 round clip, he is thoroughly trained in the fundamentals funda-mentals including loading, sighting, sight-ing, stance and nomenclature of the piece. (Continued on page 5) NEWS FROM KEARNS (Continued from page 1) Keep 'Em Flying The adventures of Tech, Sgt Elbert Bish, of the army air for basic training center at Kearns will be broadcast coast-to-coast Sunday, March 28. Sergeant Bish, recently had the unusual job of contacting girls in Salt Lake and vicinity, telling them of the omployment possibilities possibil-ities at Reams and offered them jobs. He met girls at soda fountains, foun-tains, in movie lobbies and other public places and even a soft drink and a discussion of job opportunities op-portunities he rounded up more than 100 clerical workers. His unusual ictivities drew rheadines in all parts of the country coun-try and now he has been , invited to appear on "We, the People" program on March 28. Keep 'Em Flying Miss Julia Cognisn, 22, is the first woman auto mechanic on this post. Miss Cognien learned tinkering tink-ering in an auto mechanic course at -Price and is classified here as a mechanics helper. The mechanists job is Mi(Ss Cognien's contribution contribu-tion to the war effort, but after the war she wants to go back to the farm. |