This episode is Part One of The Silver King's letters, "Dearest Ones," from the Air Corps Gunnery School in the Nevada desert. It's a deep, hot summer and six weeks of work to earn Gunner's Wings. Stanley and his squad rode a troop train from the Santa Ana Army Air Base to a post seven miles from Las Vegas. He's ready to do the work to reach Bomber school and attend gambling school on the Las Vegas strip.