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Show Robert E. Irion eptember 20'h 2 02 math course took us from basic arithmetic to trigonometry in six weeks. W had m pretty good instructors frankly, there. We had one guy who was using us as an experiment for the first two or three weeks, before we caught on that he was just doing a little research project, and he thought we'd be good subjects. And finally, everybody got ticked off about it and realized what was going on, and went to the C.O. and things changed, and we started getting a little education out of his class, instead of research for him. But I recall, we had a meteorology teacher- one of the few military courses we had -that when I first went into his class I thought, "Oh, Lord - am I going to keep up with this guy?" I couldn't write notes as fast as he talked. He had a very rapid fire delivery, knew his subject real well, and just went bing-bing-bing-bing, and I thought, "Man, I'm just trying to take notes like wild!" But after awhile I realized that this guy really knew his subject, and really was great to learn from. And as it turned out, I learned so much right there in that six weeks, that the classes I had after that were kind ofho-hum, ho-hum- at other stages in training, it was like- I've been through this! This guy had given it all to us, and he was really good. BEN: So some of the classes related directly to the military, the rest were just for so you'd be well-rounded? ROB: Yeah the rest were just pure education classes, trying to get you a little better rounding of education. Just trying to get everybody up to a basic level, so we weren't a bunch of goats. Anyhow, we were there for six weeks., and then we went to Nashville, 25 |
