Pacific service magazine . t. M. McFarland wasan employee of PacificService in the San JoseDistrict. A. R. Stephens, formerlyof the Distribution Depart-ment, Oakland, is now astudent electrician at MareIsland. The Government isgiving the boys a very thor-ough education in electric-ity. Stephens has alreadyhad ten weeks of hardwork on radio and generalelectricity, which consistsmostly of theory of directcurrent. He is now about tobe introduced to alternatingcurrents, after which hisstudies will include switch-boards, instruments, arma-ture winding for both mo- tors and generators, an
Pacific service magazine . t. M. McFarland wasan employee of PacificService in the San JoseDistrict. A. R. Stephens, formerlyof the Distribution Depart-ment, Oakland, is now astudent electrician at MareIsland. The Government isgiving the boys a very thor-ough education in electric-ity. Stephens has alreadyhad ten weeks of hardwork on radio and generalelectricity, which consistsmostly of theory of directcurrent. He is now about tobe introduced to alternatingcurrents, after which hisstudies will include switch-boards, instruments, arma-ture winding for both mo- tors and generators, and a thorough studyof storage batteries. They also give theboys about a month of machine-shoppractice, together with some work onsteam engines. Altogether, it is an eight-month course and the instructors arecramming them to the limit. Stephenssays that they have eight hours of school-ing practically every day. It is expectedthat these boys will qualify as second-class electricians and will be appointedto duty on The Electric Distribution Departmentin Oakland received a letter from Lieu-tenant Charles C. Jensen, now at Talia-ferro Field, Fort Worth. For two monthspast he has been assigned to duty in-structing cadets in flying. Lieutenant Jen-sen expects to be sent to the GunnerySchool after he is through instructingcadets. This is a three-weeks course andabout sixty new students enter it everyweek. He writes: The boys had been getting into badhabits while on Solo, and when they weresent to this stage they used to wash outon an average one ship a day, but for-tunately no one was ever seriously in-jured. Now before wet let them do thisw^ork alone, which consists of making45-degree figure eights, and also in goingup about two thousand feetand spiraling into the field,there are three of us in-structors w^ho take them upfor several hours and teachthem how to do it get a new class everyweek; work starts at morning and lasts tillnoon. Its a long, hard
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