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Several months after enlisting, Mr. Edwards was finally called to duty. He quickly realized that he had to bide his time through training like everyone else, before he even got close to a plane.
Transcription
Actually had a job at the airport in North Battleford, they were building the runways. And I was supervising the amount of gravel they were putting down, counting the trucks and making note of it. Big job. Anyway, until I got called up. They send you a meal ticket and whatever to get down to Brandon, overnight on the train. Went to Brandon manning pool, and here is a great number of people, hundreds of guys just like me coming in. Everybody got a haircut and everybody got kitted, from the boots up. And you had a bunk, a nice clean bunk and blankets and they had a routine, getting up at whatever time, 6 o’clock or whatever ungodly hour. They used to blow the bugle to wake you up. Not that I didn’t like it, but I would wake up a few seconds before that bugles first notes just so that I would be aware of what is happening. I didn’t want to be waken by it, its how you set your clock you see. But it was great fun met lots of people and made lots of friends. I found out very quickly that if you did what you were told you got along very well. As soon as you disobeyed somebody you were in trouble. We did our best. They taught us how to march, how to look smart, and it had to be the same, it had to be up to a standard which was great. You wouldn’t have one good and one bad sort of thing. And everyone would pitch in. The sooner you got down to it, the sooner you accomplished what you were after. In the background you were always thinking about flying, but this was a long way from flying.