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you are entirely unnecessary.
Fact is, you are a nuisance
and if we could get rid of you
we wouldn't train you here.
We're just training because
we have to do it. Rest assured,
a lot of you are to be eliminated
here; not only a few, but a lot.
We mean to get rid of
all we can. Your status now,
with your comission, is
just the same as if you were
still cadets, except that it is
easier to get rid of you without
so much red tape. This
war can be won without
any of you men. There
are 16,000 breveted aviators in
France and the United
States at the present time.