Show with our men h in 11 the service A trip to blanding last week gave us an opportunity to see the fine assortment of photos on display in the window of the parley redd store there are 31 in all including one of mary harris who is serving as a red cross nurse mr redd said there were about nine more blanding men in the service who had not yet sent in photos it is a lovely way to keep us reminded of what you are doing and we recognized many familiar faces mr redd told us where some of you are serving now some in the army seme in the navy and some in other branches of service or in training may god watch over you and over all of our san juan county men wherever you are and guide you safely through M M 0 0 dear mrs ogden just a few lines to let you know how I 1 am getting along and to give you my new address I 1 have been here at the army air base fr about six months by now I 1 have become used to it and find that I 1 like it very much this base is is less than one year old but in that ume we wd have done quite a bit towards making this one of our lest technical training schools at first we had bad a little trouble in training the men due to lack of equipment and to the lack of trained personnel some of us make the advancement van cement that we were expecting s so at times we may have been a little discouraged but we find that now we are operating full blast 24 hours a day and seven days a week I 1 gotten used to the prairies I 1 still miss the mountains but I 1 guess that I 1 will have time enough to look at them after we get this job over which will be soon I 1 hope I 1 have had a little trouble in keeping my address straight but now I 1 think I 1 have a permanent squadron so please send my paper to this address must close now wishing you all the best of luck respectfully yours cal epifanio lopez academic squadron arks army air base lincoln nebraska 0 dear mrs ogden I 1 understand that it is your policy to send the record to all the boys if this is right will you please send me the record at present I 1 am taking my basic training so far the army bad at all sincerely alfred frost known in the army as P pat vt clarence A frost ord MM co camp maxey texas dear mrs ogden for the past few weeks I 1 have enjoyed very much the copies of the record which I 1 have been receiving here at farragut each news item seems to be one of special interest when one is away from home in a training camp farragut naval station I 1 am sure is a station with which most of you bod at home are not f familiar a it is a very recent addi addition ton i to uncle sams facilities for t training raining men to man the evere ever e expanding ap a n ding U S fleet farragut was commissioned in the early fall of 1942 and since that time it has developed thousands of hard fighting blue jackets who are now fighting upon the seven seas for the lib erty of the world the station was named after admiral david glasgow farragut the first Admiral of the Unit united states navy farragut is located locate among the pine clad hills of northern idaho on the shore of lake pend dorceille dO one of the most beautiful lakes in our country it provides facilitates for training men in the operation of the small boats of the navy I 1 wish to express my appreciation for your thoughtfulness in sending the record may I 1 take this opportunity to wish my fellow comrades of the services safe sailing and a happy landing sincerely kirk E nielson AS co 55 43 camp hill farragut idaho 0 farragut idaho april 3 an aldi addition tion to the cooks and bakers service school roster for a 16 weeks specialized course is lyman berease nielson son of mr and mrs ed nielson blanding utah at this school which is is a division sion of the U S navys training station located on the shores of lake pend oreille in northern idaho the new enrollee will vill be given an intensified course in this specialty at the conclusion of this course he will be given an opportunity to qualify for a rate of petty officer and assigned to a unit of the navy either ashore or afloat farragut idaho march 31 donald edward robbins son of mr and mrs W E robbins robbing monticello utah is a new recruit to begin training in one of the camps at this naval training station recently his training period will consist of a thorough schooling in the navy methods of sea manship discipline physical fitness and other factors that go in to the making of a good navy man he will be given a test at the conclusion of this training c ourse course and may qualify for further sp specialized e ciali zed training in one of the navys service schools or be transferred to other shore stations or to a unit of the fleet at sea 0 jup jur it will be of interest to ewals fina to know that pat ray L christnsen christensen is the proud father of a baby boy born april 2 leon has a short furlough and is with mrs christensen in salt lake city now |