Cameron Doyle Greene: Difference between revisions

=== Flight Instructor ===

Greene would spend the next several months in Presdale, working with new volunteers and servicemen as part of the fighter pilot training program. He was noted for his emphasis on communication and the usage of radios to communicate between aircraft. During this period, now Flight Lieutenant Greene worked tirelessly, often for sixteen to eighteen hours a day, with maintenance crews on the student trainer aircraft, as well as with other experienced combat pilots on the flight programme and methods of instruction. Greene emphasized the need for more dog fighting and aerial combat tactics to be taught, as he had barely any formal instruction during flight school and had only received a few weeks of introductory training when he first arrived to No.30 Squadron in Kurst two years prior.  

During this period, Greene met his future wife, Ashley Upperton, the daughter of a Presdale cattle rancher. The maintained correspondence throughout the war, to eventually be married. In July of 1938, Greene received a letter from his brother, Arthur, informing him that he had been wounded a second time while in combat in the Capetian Peninsula and was to be permanently sent back to Arcerion. Greene took a week leave of absence and travelled by train to receive his brother at his parent's home in Chester-on-Moore. The trip had a significant psychological impact on him, as he felt guilty that he was no longer flying combat missions. Upon returning to Presdale and the fighter school, he immediately began petitioning his chain of command, up to and including a letter to the Chief of Staff of the Arcer Air Force, for a transfer back to Arcer Fighter Group 1. Owing to his fame in the nespapers as a multi-ace, as well as his Distinguished Flying Cross, his request was granted. Green was promoted to Squadron Commander, and replaced the recently wounded Squadron Commander Douglas Rutherford, who had flown with Greene over he Cape in 1937.