Not only did the population of Waco explode with the coming of the soldiers at Camp MacArthur and Rich Field, but so too did the pool of eligible bachelors. The people of Waco already hung around the air base to watch planes fly, but young women also stayed around to meet the pilots. A poem in the Rich Field Flyer said it best: “I have gone without sugar, in coffee and tea—If Tuesday were wheatless ‘twas nothing to me; in fact all such rules I obeyed like a child—but these Kadetless week-ends have driven me wild!”