Mail Call for All A. A.s at Home Or Abroad

It was an unexpected pleasure to receive your very nice letter. I suppose the explanation as to why I finally joined A.A. is now in order, so here goes. My glittering career in the Army was studded with several meteoric rises and just as rapid falls. I went from a private to technical sergeant twice before they finally made me a flight officer. I managed to hold on to that for a little longer period than the others, but even that wound up when I went on a ferry trip and landed the ship at the wrong base, so cockeyed I couldn't walk away from it. I might have gotten away with that if I hadn't gotten my co-pilot drunk, too. This last little episode was really the whizzer of them all. I was transferred to a new base and became the only flying private in the Air Corps.