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The quality of the Air Service personnel on duty in the Hawaiian Department is satisfactory, except it needs a great deal of instruction, and concentration, which, of course, will come with concentration of command.

The matter of handling lighter-than-air officers is a big problem as these should not be assigned under any condition to a heavier-than-air command. The spirit of the law which prescribes that flying units should be commanded by flying officers really means that those flying officers in the case of heavier-than-air units be heavier-than-air officers. As a matter of fact, all lighter-than-air officers should be required to quality as heavier-than-air officers before taking the lighter-than-air qualifications.

The spirit existing here toward the Air Service by the Commanding General, General Summerall, is excellent in every way and he is fully alive to the necessity for developing our Air power in this group.

There are appended hereto notes on the inspection of

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