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to realize the terrible shortcomings and procrastinations of a new-born organization. Those who can survive through the worst of it will be the "big guns" of the Aviation [[underline]] Corps [[/underline]] ^[[(sic)]] U.S.A., when the happy day is reached when we will be divorced from the uncongenial affiliation with the Signal Corps. At that eventful hour, too, the flying officer may amount to something more than a scapegoat to be bossed by a yellow streaked ground officer (how I hate the latter who order us about and make us uncomfortable!). The good work is steadily going forward ^[[and]] if the time be marked by months instead of days or hours; there is a noticeable gain and a noticeable change. Even I have progressed, in spite of more than a few squalls with ignorant N.C.O's and flurried Leftenants and Lieutenants of both the R.F.C. and U.S. ^[[Sig.]] Corps.

The day I escaped from the observation of the self-confessedly incompetent medical