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last night got rather drunk - first
time in a long time - ended up listening
to tapes in Major Jerry Smiths hut
and shooting the breeze. - Talked about
that cozy condition the Marine Corps is in
sending minimum trained pilots over here, shifting
jobs around like musical chairs assigning
jobs with absolutely no consideration of a
[?] experience - good old ST !

Roger Morgan is busy building an addition
on his hut next door - a T.U room I [?]
should be nice - Chu bai's getting pretty soft
Dick Jacobs and DougBenton left
rather suddenlyu for BAC

Lt Col Mcguir gets relieved tomorrow -
Major (Lt Col select) Oral Kene - is taking
over - Major Miller just checked aboard from
Marine Corp Schools (great!) to be XO -
Lt Col McGee going to J-3 - a wise decision
for a change -

Lt Col Jacks is going to [?] - god damn !
Lt Col Faber taking over - Lt Col Deeney will
be S-3 with Lt Col Fitch going to 533
Switching [?] [?].

25 Sept

Alert - [?] once with our new CO
Major Kern - TPQ Den "D" - Big Deal -

Spent the rest of the day working on
Pilot training - Card file and AOM
Brief -

Willie Smith & Dan Metcalf have
stopped flying - getting too short - Major
Hover - also - he's going [?] getting out
Retired -

Change of Command - Lt Col McGee
relieved by Major Kern - Quick Ceremony
with General Anderson & Col Walker
attending - Col McGee godes to group B
where I hope he use his influence to do some
good.

George Burnett is going to [?] 6 - 3
Ken Masek is headed for BAC in [?] - Mike
Pool is going in December -