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Getting back to the WAC. Had my basic training at the 1st WAC Training Center, Des Moines, Iowa. Really rough. After basic was shipped here. Hope to leave this place soon, although it looks like I will be here several more weeks.
Wichita Falls is in the Panhandle section of Texas. It is really a “hell hole”. Nothing attractive about it. The climate is too hot now. The flies, ants and silver fish are driving me mad. They also eat my rayon stockings and underclothes. Wichita Falls is a dry town too. This doesn’t bother me though as I haven’t had a cocktail since entering the WAC. We can buy beer on the base though.
Cigarettes are rationed. We have a card which allows us 6 packages per weak.
There is a heliocopter school here. Have you ever seen one of the “egg beaters”?
I have a birthday Saturday. A friend of mine who is a Captain (over)