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Show Local Girl Finds Navy Life Likeable I Joining the WAVES isn't half bad and to prove the point W. E. Thomas, CSI, USN, Navy recruiter recrui-ter located in Cedar City has received a letter from a southern south-ern Utah girl who has just recently re-cently entered the ranks of the WAVES. Women in the Navy are as important im-portant today as the men in the U. S. fleet's operation, according to recruiter Thomas and the surprising sur-prising thing about it Is that those who join the WAVES enjoy it. Arriving in Bainbridge on the afternoon of June 9, this southern south-ern Utah girl explains the chain of events that a WAVE recruit undergoes. "The minute we arrived ar-rived our training started. We were swept into a whirlpool of events. First our physicals, then uniforming, then dental and hair check. Finally we got into our uniforms and at last, although it was still June 9, we looked, felt, and even acted like Waves." Following the ordeal of the first few days this young lady found that in no time at all she was one of the girls and an ! everyday pattern of life had begun. be-gun. "We started our classes and found ourselves wrapped up in a daily routine. Now the time sems to fly. We have eight classes in all, four in the forenoon fore-noon and four in the afternoon. Following our last class we have area liberty until time for evening eve-ning mess, then we have our evening details followed by bunk fatigue until the early morning call." "On Saturday afternoons and all day Sunday we have area liberty and the base affords plenty of recreation like swimming, swim-ming, playing tennis, baseball; anything we want to do we can it seems." And as for the "chow" the young lady with an apparent appetite ap-petite has this to say: "The meals are wonderful, too. They feedis until we could burst. We have as much to eat as we want and most of all It is really nice with no dishes to do." |
