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CLOUDBUSTER
Saturday, May 22, 1943
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Reprinted from the Cloudbuster, Dec. 5, 1942
ANNIVERSARY
(Continued from page five)
likes it or not in order to get bal
ance and develop aggressiveness
and love of combat. Each cadet
thus gets the benefit of an all
round athletic training which it
vv^ould be impossible to get any
where else.
All sports ^re pointed at mili
tary usefulness, as in swimming
where all the speedy and fancy
strokes are dispensed with in
favor of endurance. The end of
the course will find the cadet able
to swim half a mile, to tread
water, and to swim under water
for an apprehensible distance.
Swimming with rifles held above
water, swimming with a full pack
on the shoulders, extricating one’s
self from a submerged airplane
cockpit are some of the tests re
quired.
“The military schedule follows
the pattern of the U. S. Naval
Academy,” according to Lt.
Comdr. Lloyd Sauer, USNR, Regi
mental Commander. Some of it is
classroom work. The curriculum
embraces infantry drill, communi
cations, radio and blinker, ord
nance, seamanship, first aid, gun
nery, and training on the rifle
range.
Military discipline obtains
throughout. The regiment is di
vided into six battalions, one bat
talion of approximately 300 men,
finishing every two weeks. Each
platoon is in charge of two of
ficers who are the cream of the
athletic coaching staffs of the
country. The platoons are self
governed to the extent that cadet
officers are appointed to function
for four weeks each. For the final
period a regimental staff from the
senior battalion is named.
The military training includes
16 mile hikes on Saturdays and B
mile hikes on Wednesdays. The
future flier fighter is taught to
take care of himself in the woods
in case he is forced down in
strange territory.
Cadets receive excellent care in
every respect. A new Naval hos
pital has just been completed, and
the finest medical officers avail
able compose the competent staff
which is under the direction of
Comdr. Deane H. Vance, (MC)
USN (Ret.).
After completion of the Pre-
Flight School, the cadet goes to a
primary flight base and from
there to intermediate flight train
ing at the Naval Air Station at
Pensacola or Corpus Christi.
There he gets his wings and be
comes an ensign in the Navy or a
second lieutenant in the Marines,
and is assigned to a squadron
where he learns the last word in
combat flying.
The U. S. Navy Pre-Flight
School at Chapel Hill is one year
old tomorrow. Its work is invalu
able. In that year thousands of
cadets have gone on to Primary
A year Ago
Tomorrow will mark the first
anniversary of the commissioning
of the U. S. Navy Pre-Flight
School at Chapel Hill. On that
occasion, a year ago, Chaplain C.
A. Neyman, USN, delivered the
invocation and Dean R. B. House
of the University of North Caro
lina introduced the chairman of
the day, the Honorable Josephus
Daniels, who was Secretary of
the Navy during the last war.
Governor J. Melville Broughton
extended the greetings of the
state to the Navy, and University
President Frank P. Graham wel
comed the unit to the campus.
Comdr. Thomas J. Hamilton,
USN, spoke and Comdr. 0. 0.
Kessing, USN, read his orders
and took command. The watch
was ordered set by the Executive
Officer, then Lt. (jg) John P.
Graff, USN (Ret.), and the bos’n
piped down.
Thus an experiment got under
way one year ago tomorrow. Since
that time thousands of boys have
reported to Chapel Hill for Pre-
Flight Training. Hundreds of
them have already received their
wings and are either ensigns in
the Navy or second lieutenants in
the Marines. Already they have
left or are leaving soon for battle
fronts throughout the world.
Through the newspapers, the
radio and by word of mouth, the
fine work that Pre-Flight Train
ing has been doing has been told.
It is an interesting story, one
that makes those who have par
ticipated in its success proud of
their work.
To Captain Arthur W. Radford,
USN, Head of the Aviation Train
ing Division of the Navy’s Bureau
of Aeronautics, to Comdr. Thomas
J. Hamilton, USN, who is in di
rect charge of Pre-Flight Train
ing, to the Commanding Officers
of the various Pre-Flight schools,
to the other officers and the en
listed and civilian personnel,
much credit is due for the success
of the program. It is the combined
efforts of these groups that has
made Pre-Flight Training one of
the most important phases of our
war effort.
Flight Training, and hundreds
have already received their wings.
It is making the future Navy flier
a strong, rugged, disciplined, in
telligent fighter. It teaches him
to be an officer, imbued with the
traditions of the Service and
ready to face the fortunes of war
with a fiery spirit that admits only
to victory.
Out Of The Lucky Bag
LOST ANYTHING? Try the Lucky Bag at the Cadet Store.
There’s a conglomeration of lost articles now in the Lucky Bag
ranging from wallets to shaving cream. Lost items that have been
turned in may be reclaimed by properly identifying them. To date
only 35% to 45% of the total Lucky Bag articles have been claimed
by the owners.
The present stock of orphaned items—a few of which are pic
tured above—includes cameras, wallets, rings, eye glasses, pens, name
tags, bracelets, pipes. Rosaries, athletic medals, toilet kits, rain
coats, pilot rating book, combs, keys, gloves, notebooks, toothbrush
and clothing.