Whiting Field?
Was that the one in south Alabama?
IIRCC, couldn't drop a paint bomb on the Alabama line but Brewton AL couldn't have been more than 25 or 30 miles north of Whiting. The place was wall to wall T-28s, Bs & Cs. North Field [VT-2} was fam and aerobatics and South Field {VT-3} was formation, gunnery, instruments and done. Then down to VT-5 at Saufley for carquals. After that I went to Kingsville, TX for advanced training and wings in Dec 62.