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The Commanding General, 2d Corps Area, (Major General R. L. Bullard) has stated that the use of Governors Island for the purpose indicated would be very dangerous to men and animals on the island; would first limit and then stop communication between certain parts of the island and that these parts of Governors Island would practically have to be abandoned. The parts referred to include drill and recreation grounds, barracks for over two battalions of Infantry, Corps Area Headquarters stables, many enlisted men's quarters, certain officers' quarters, as well as several shops and warehouses. General Bullard states that the eventual abandonment of these parts of the island would be occasioned by the interrupted communication.
The Chief of Air Service, while recommending the use of Governors Island as an air field states, "although attention must be invited to the fact that it is not believed that Governors Island is of sufficient size to meet the demands of aviation in the future."
Legislation as proposed in the eleventh recommendation of the Lampart Committee is not recommended.
As concerns Grant Park, the War Department is in no way concerned with the use that the City of Chicago makes of its public parks.

President's Aircraft Board.
(7) "We find that there is serious shortage of flying cadets and Air Corps reserve officers. We recommend that suitable appropriations be requested in order to provide proper training of reserve officers and in order to provide training planes and subsidiary flying fields for the use of the reserve."
(8) "We recommend a very considerable increase in the number of institutions where ground instruction is given Reserve Officers' Training Corps units in the fundamentals of military aeronautics. Further adequate provision should be made at the Air Service training in flying, so that members of the Air Corps Reserve Officers' Training Corps may qualify as military aviators and be able to receive their commissions in the same manner and at the same time as other members of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps."
(9) "We recommend that a careful study be made of the desirability of increasing the use of enlisted men as pilots in the Air Corps."

Lampert Committee.
(12) "That a greater number of men be trained as aviators and more adequate equipment and facilities be provided for our reserve flyers."
(13) "That reserve pilots be given not less that four hours' training per month throughout the year and be called for active duty at Air Service stations for tactical training for a period of not less than two weeks each year."

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