Herman Boykin Enlists in Army Air Service, Aug. 18, 1919

From the Wilson Daily Times, Aug. 18, 1919

What a Wilson County Man Thinks of the Service

Editor Wilson Times, Wilson, N.C.

Dear Sir:

The following is submitted in the hopes that it may possess some local value:

Herman F. Boykin, son of W.F. Boykin of Simms, North Carolina, formerly employed by William Ruffin as carpenter in Bailey, North Carolina, was accepted for enlistment in the United States army at Raleigh on August 13^th, 1919.

Young Boykin has spent two years in college and has had a taste of army life while in the S.A.T.C. at Atlantic Christian college, was pleased with the military life so he enlisted for three years in the Air Service.

In the words of the young recruit, we have his reasons for enlisting: “I like the service and I believe that the army offers a man of my age a good chance to learn a trade which will assure me a good position after I leave the service.”

Boykin made no mistake in choosing the Air Service as that branch is at present time training men in over 40 different trades and specialties, and has at the present time the largest educational institution along vocational lines in the world.