April 3, 1942

My Darling fiancee,

Love you so dam much......We had classes all morning and after lunch we went out to the "shooting range". We stayed at the Pistol Range until 5:30 and it really was enjoyable. We learned lot about the official pistol of the U.S. Army. We were all given a chance to shoot 15 rounds of shots at targets. I must confess dear, my shooting wasn't so good. There were about 1000 of us out, and it really is a nice range. We all took turns shooting, while the sun beat down. The Range officer was very nice.

This evening dear, we're all cleaning our rifles. During the next two weeks sometime we will meet the commandant of Cadest, Lt. Colonel Guenther and General Stratmeyer, the Commanding office of Maxwell Field. It'll be a treat though just to see General Stratmeyer , because we hear a lot about him but haven't seen him as yet.

Yours forever darling,

Emil