The arrival of July saw the rainy season still in full swing. In spite of additional drainage ditches the road through the squadron area was more a lake than a highway. After much maneuvering for dump trucks and coral "chits" we were finally able to build a log road covered with coral which helped matters considerably. While it wasn't a paved highway, at least it was possible to keep your head above water while driving through the area in a jeep. Most of the tents were becoming rather worn after sixteen months service consequently had a tendency to leak. This had partially been taken care of by the procurement of some tent emulsion from Quartermaster. The publishing of orders sending both enlisted men and
Officers home on the point system caused quite a bit of "sweating" and hilarity
when the names of those lucky ones were made public. The squadron had thirteen enlisted
men with 113 points or above and two officers that came within the scores allotted for
them. The orders were received in the late afternoon of 15 July and naturally all of them
wanted to get away as quickly as possible. The orderly room cooperated with them and the
whole staff worked until 2130 processing personnel records in accordance with existing
regulations and checking and rechecking them to eliminate any delay at the Replacement
Battalion due to erroneous or incomplete entries. The main topic of conversation was how
low in the scores will the next quote go. Those who didn't qualify under the 12 May
minimums were sweating out the new Adjusted Service Rating Score that was to be announced
by the War Department around August. During the month four officers and five enlisted men,
members of combat crews, returned to the States. Gradually the original members of the
Flight Echelon of the Squadron were pulling out and at the end of the month only five
officers and three enlisted men of the original Flight Echelon are left.
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