A group of Navy enlisted men and aviation cadets pause for informal conversation outside a naval air station, seated on a makeshift wooden bench amid parked automobiles and station buildings. The handwritten caption 'Scuttlebutt' - Navy slang for gossip, derived from the shipboard water cask sailors gathered around to talk - captures a quiet, candid moment of camaraderie during the demanding V-5 Naval Aviation Cadet training program of the World War II era. Project: 218579