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Show GOOD WORK DONE ON AUERBACH'S FIELD Recruit L. W. Gibbs Thanks Officers as He Leaves to Enter Eastern Aviation School. The good work being 'done at the Auerbach' field by drill sergeants in giving prospective army selectives the first lessons in the schooj of the soldier, sol-dier, is indicated in the farewell letter of Lauren W. Gibbs of Salt Lake, who bids his instructors farewell as follows: I herewith hand in my resignation resigna-tion in squad No. 1. 1 received orders to jump the next train for Boston, where 1 go into training with a chance to make a commission commis-sion as a pilot in the air corps. I appreciate your persistence and kindly supervision of the first stage in sawing off the awkwardness awkward-ness and the stage fright of a recruit. re-cruit. If I ever have to face the enemy and have the officer call "skirmishers," "skir-mishers," I suppose I will be trying try-ing to figure out whether' am a No. 2 or a No. 4, and whether 1 have to be on the left or right side, instead of getting my club ready to ' ' halt the Hun. ' ' |