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Show M~l rvin J. Miller June 11 2001 Fi ld in H uston. I went up there and passed with flying col r and I g t a furl ugh and ame home for ten days. When I was first at Can1p Wallace during basic training we had a cond li ut nant who was one of the ninety-day wonder OCS types. And he came into our barracks one tin1e t interview us. He called my name, and I went in, and there was a chair there. And I turned the chair around and sat down, and leaned over the chair, and he went, "Ugh." He said, "Private, do you know how to report to an officer?" Nonchalantly, I said, "Oh, yes, sir." And he paused for a moment, and he said, "Well, I'm an officer." "Oh, yes, sir." And I jumped up and gave him a salute. I hadn't really been indoctrinated to the army life in that respect. I n1ean he was our platoon leader and just one of the guys. But he impressed upon me that he was an officer. And during our basic training we had occasion to go on bivouacs on the beach and dig in sand. I was assigned to a height finder unit. That's an instrument that you see the aircraft with. And you have instruments there that you can adjust. And it gives you the heights or the altitude of the aircraft. So, that was part of my assignment-to work on that. One time, on a bivouac, we turned the unit up at the moon, and it was like a big telescope, and we could see the craters on the moon. It was quite a fantastic view. There was another fellow. One of my other buddies-he had his private pilot's license and he got into cadets. We were assigned to Shepherd Field, Wichita Falls, Texas. We went up there and they told us that the only thing that would wash us out of cadets would to be fail the physical. I passed the physical hands down. There was no problem. 4 |
