You may be the youngest Nasal Radiator to have gone thru Whiting
Afraid he's not gums, when we foreigners went through in '67 we had two eighteen year olds on course, straight out of high school when they joined the service. T-34 Saufley, T-28 Whiting, Saufley & Mainside, TH13 & H-34 Ellyson, some went to Tracker at Corpus then RAG at San Diego. Only had one major accident in our time there, solo US student lost control at Whiting in a T-28 when he had a fit on approach due to advanced TB. Grounded a whole bunch of us for a period while they tested for infection.