The Ground School Training Program for Argentines

In 1948 the ground school in panama started to offer a special training program for argentine officers and enlisted men that mixed technical training with what lezli gill calls cultural persuasion. The trainees held strong opinions about their national and racial superiority vis-a-vis other latin americans these views did not go unappreciated by their north american hosts. Officers at the ground school wrote that it was essential in view of the nationalistic feelings of the argentine and their belief in certain racial theories that they'd be made to feel they enjoy equal privileges with Americans.