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The trainees were provided coveralls and other functional clothing such as leather jackets, but had to provide their own uniforms, which consisted of khaki slacks and overseas cap, and white shirt.

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ORGANIZATION AND DISCIPLINE AT TRAINING BASE

Apart from the organization provided by the contractor, the AAF had the following personnel at Avenger Field: Commanding Officer, Executive Officer, Flight Surgeon and Asst. Flight surgeons, Engineering Officer, Finance Officer, Operations Officer, Quartermaster, Supply Officer, maintenance, Intelligence, Public Relations, Physical Training, Transportation Officer and Weather Officer. The number of flying officers varied between twenty and forty, depending upon the number of students enrolled.
The Avenger Field base was under the jurisdiction of the Central Flying Training Command and regular AAF inspections occurred from the headquarters of that command, the headquarters of the AAF Training Command and headquarters of the Army Air Forces in Washington.
The trainees lived in barracks, six to a bay. As a part of the women pilot program there were five women called "Establishment Officers" and later "Staff Advisers" stationed at Avenger Field, whose duties included acting as liaison officers between trainees and military personnel, recommending adoption of or changes in current regulations essential to the welfare, health, and discipline of trainees and assisting in enforcing these regulations. In addition, they acted in an advisory capacity to the trainees in their personal affairs when necessary, and helped expedite the satisfactory solutions of unprecedented basic problems of women Civil Service

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