| This photo of the pole yard is where the classes learned to climb. I had it over some of the fellows on climbing poles as this past summer of 1950 I had worked on a North- western Bell line crew at Bowdle, South Dakota. The poles were so chewed up from the fellows practicing on them I still managed to burn one some how and got some slivers in my chin that were still coming out after reporting to 1st. Comm. at Rome, N.Y. |
| Rex Raymond on the left with an unknown airman, with a pose. Keep those knees locked fellas!! Ha. |
| Airman Cruz on his way down. |
| The class instructor demostrating the hanging of a cable splicing platform. |
| Airman Cruz looks happy with what he accomplished. The airmen also had to hang a cable car on the strand and then take a ride with their climbers on. |
| Airman Seal on the left with four other unknown airmen getting ready to hang cable splicing platforms. In the background is the older part of Francis E. Warren with Crow Creek in between. |
| During Christmas, the school was shut down for a week, so Rex took a furlough for home in Michigan. He then drove his car back to Cheyenne. Then Rex and some of his friends went on hiking excursions up into the mountains on weekends. This is a photo of some antelope they saw on one of their trips. |
| Rex Raymond with his 1951 Chevy checking out a B-25 Mitchell bomber at the Cheyenne airport. |
| Downtown Cheyenne. The Union Pacific depot is at the end of the street. |
| On my graduation from school I received my orders to report to 1st. Communications Construction Squadron at Rome, N.Y. by April 20, 1951. I was given a 10 day delay enroute so I jumped on the train in Cheyenne for Columbus, Nebr. where the family was living at this date. This was my first furlough since leaving home for basic training in Aug. of 1950. |
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