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Newspaper
Sheppard Field Texacts
Location
Sheppard Field, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1941
Page
2
Navy Texacts piece catalogs common Army goldbrickers or slacker types. It lists bed-warmers, know-it-alls, guardhouse lawyers, apple polishers, hypochondriacs and other recurring patterns and their antics to dodge duties and roll calls.
The first cadet to wed in the new Post Chapel was Pvt. Paul Ernest George of the 407th School Squadron supply and receiving department. He married Florence D. Winters as strains of the wedding march filled the chapel. The couple traveled 750 miles from Denver in 15 hours with the bridegroom’s mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Wilkins, accompanying them.
Maj. Charles H. Edgerton notes cadets' teeth are in worse shape than in prior wars. The new clinic will expand to 25 chairs with 40 dentists and target 125 patients daily. A future survey will group cadets by need and speed up dental care across eastern and southwest regions.
A special showing of a film will be held each weekday at ten o'clock for late class students. The morning pictures began Monday, per Lt. Harold W. Titler theater officer.
The Sheppard Field Army Air Force Band expanded with the transfer of Pfc. Ernest A. Stofko from the 311th School Squadron this week.
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