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For those who had enlisted for the Army's Warrant Officer Helicopter Pilot Training Program, the next ordeal was flight school at Fort Wolters TX Dec 67 - May 68
Preflight Barracks and the WOC ROCK and me.
Warrant Officer Candidates scrub their living quarters in anticipation of a TAC Officers inspection.
Morning communal grooming routine for Warrant Officer Candidates.
Candidate with freshly starched fatigue trouser leg.
My "stuff" on display, awaiting the wrath of our TAC Officer.
Me! Sporting the latest in suave and debonair hair style!
On the bunk ,my roommate for 5 months at Ft. Wolters, Jeffrey Borr from Grand Rapids MI. That's me in the yellow hat. Jeff Borr was killed in action, 9 Sep 1969. My youngest son, born ten years later in 1979, is named Jeffrey in his memory.
Jeff, with a cloud over his head. Senior party at the Ft. Wolters Lake Lodge
Jeff, holding yellow hat, fooling around.
Jeff's final resting place in Grand Rapids Michigan
Me, beside my "super sophisticated", "high tech" OH-13 G helicopter.
Cross country views...very pleasant flying!
The Helicopter landing skid is visible as I leaned out to snap this shot. No doors on this machine!
Graduation at Fort Rucker Alabama in early October 1968. By the end of the month, I was in Vietnam.
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