Note C — Chapter I · THE SIGNAL CORPS AVIATION SCHOOL AT SAN DIEGO
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The army aviator of today is picked for his quickness of mind and body, and the first thing that strikes you about him is a sort of feline, wound-up-spring alertness. Then you note his reticence, the cool reserve of a man whose lot is to express himself in deeds rather than words. And, lastly, there is the quiet seriousness, verging almost on sadness, of a man who must hold himself ready to look death between the eyes at any moment and yet keep his mind detached for other things.—Lewis R. Freeman in the Atlantic Monthly.