We finally have the straight dope on what we'll be doing on here. The Major said we would likely be here another 3 - 4 weeks, but that we shouldn't complain because they use the French training system here, which usually takes up to 8 months. Since we and the 27th and 139th came here as intact outfits with RFC training, we'll be given priority and pushed through as quickly as we can complete the requirements, progressing through the prescribed sequence of training stages on the fields, 9 of them for us. So much for a few hops and stunts and then off to fight the Huns! But we got to jump to the head of the line so I guess we cant whine too much. Most of the men here are still cadets and haven't even been up in a plane.
This decision didn't make us popular with the boys who have been sitting around here for months, I can tell you. They call us "Canucks" because of our training in Canada. When the instructors, most of them French here, passed this info on to the others they almost had a small riot on their hands.
We start tomorrow on the the "Grasshopper Field," #1. Still raining.
