A Soldier’s Letter Home, March 15, 1919
I have a German Caboose, it is quite a swell affair and I live right in it, so I am always at home.
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I have a German Caboose, it is quite a swell affair and I live right in it, so I am always at home.
Anything else, at this point, is speculation, and we’re not supposed to comment until the facts are known. Well, the further I get from the long arm of the Air Force, the less I’m inclined to observe the pieties, so I’m just gonna jump in the speculation canal with both feet. Up to my neck.
My suspicion, all along, has been that the leaked documents are assessments of military capabilities and key government/military leaders prepared by military attachés attached to American embassies overseas. Gathering that kind of intel and reporting on it is a key part of any attaché’s job — ours and theirs.
The flight doc knows you better than you might think, and is always watching and listening.
Fifteen years later Donna crossed paths with the wife of one of my instructor pilots, who seemed surprised to learn we were still in the Air Force. She was amazed Donna and her trouble-making ways hadn’t tubed my career years ago.