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Show HARRY A. MOYER November 22,2002 Field which was adjacent to Maxwell Field and established in tents. There we had more training and indoctrination. They weren't able to take care of the sudden influx there. We were there for about six weeks, just getting beat up on, getting the civilian knocked out of us, and putting the military in. BEN: Just marching and ... HAR: Marching, and maintaining a low grade type of thing, and jumping to and fro, and learning military discipline, and that type of thing. We didn't have to much of an aviation indoctrination during that part of the training. BEN: How was that transition of beating the civilian out of you? How'd you do? HAR: How' d we do? Yeah, we survived. You know, we took, we had to get a lot of our shots, and all that sort of stuff, and that knocked a lot of guys out. And then we had meeting deadlines, you know, we had about two minutes to change from Class A to Class B and training, and we got into pretty good physical shape. BEN: How was the transition in the sense of having just complete structure? I mean, you had gone to college so you had a certain class structure, but now they're telling you exactly when and where and how. Was that difficult, or was? HAR: I think we understood at the time. We had six guys in the tent, and we got pretty close to those people, so you weren't alone. You had a lot of company with your misery, so to speak. And I remember one time, we had to eat square meals - everything had to be square, and all that sort of stuff- and sit on the bench at attention for minutes, ands a lieutenant- who was a God, you know. So he berated us, and he says, "You're not equal. 9 |
