The guy sitting down with the burger and beer was chosen as the "Cookie Monster." He was the upper class man in charge of the OTS chow hall. He would hand out demerits if you were an underclassman and talking when you weren't supposed to or doing anything else you should not be doing in the chow hall.
Brian Bauries is seated in the lower right of the picture. The woman standing behind with the light blue hat on became a good friend for my final six weeks at OTS. Again, I knew all of their names to well for so many years and now I cannot even remember her name.
We'd gotten to go on a field trip to the Lone Star Brewery. The front area featured the antlers and horns and heads of hundreds of animals the owner had killed over the years. She was mortified at all of the carnage and whispered to me that you felt as if she were in a mausoleum or morgue. You could hardly see the ceiling for all the antlers in one room.
Wives and children in the area of us trainees were also invited to this Blue Squadron picnic.
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