Clifford Leland Little

     Mr. Little writing from SanDiego to his lodge, the Enterprise I.O.O.F., says:
     I will try in this tardy letter to express my appreciation of your kindness of the past and also the present. It is hard for me to visit the lodge here as it doesn't meet on liberty nights.
     I have met many brothers here, most of whom are the very best of men and have helped me in many ways.
     The aviation section here is more than full, and they expect to take late arrivals and change their rating to apprentice seamen or firemen. There is about  three or four hundred of them.
     I have been in school about a week and like it fine and have gained ten pounds since enlisting.
     They keep drafting the seamen out of here at about five hundred a week. Soon it will be all aviation if more boys don't enlist.
     We get new uniforms soon. They will be on the order of the marine or soldier suits, although different in color which will be dark green. I have very little time to write letters now for school means study and I feel lucky when I have finished. The navy is not all fun but there is just enough excitement to make it snappy and make one want to see more, especially when a plane gets in an air pocket and you hardly know it until you hit good air that makes the wings and wires pop like German bombs. Another method of telling when you have gone through one is when your seat comes up to meet you which feels like some one had hit you with a barrel stave.
     Well, I must close, again thanking you for presents and kindness, I remain, your brother,
Clifford Leland Little San Diego Naval Training Station