My grand father was a Sergeant Major in the Army Air Corps and was a veteran of the Aleutian Campaign. I asked him once how he got to Nome(home station). He told me one day at the end of advanced training, a sergeant came into the barracks in Greenville,Ms. and asked for volunteers to get on a train to New York. He figured that that was the first step in getting to Europe so he volunteered. The train went to New York all right. And then smooth across the country the other direction to Spokane. Lol