Armored Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, February 19, 1965 Page: 2 of 22
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ARTIST DISPLAYS DESIGN—Sp-4 Darrell
K. Ransdell Bloomington 111. of the 2nd Armored
Division shows his completed designs for the
interior covers of the division yearbook.
Ransdell's design depicts the Irtfii Deuce's World
War II campaigns and the more recent Desert
Strike and Big Lift Exercises. Work on the year
book is nearing completion. (U.S. Army Photo)
DA Approves New
Officer Specialties
Seven new functionalized of
ficer military occupation spe
cialties (MOS) have recently
been approved by the deputy
chief of staff for personnel
(DCSPER) Department of the
Army to aid personnel man
agers in keeping pace with the
impact of functionalization upon
Army organizations.
The new MOS in effect April
1 1 9 6 5 in up a
service officer MOS 4200 sup
ply management officer MOS
4201 ammunition and missile
maintenance officer MOS 4515
Commanders
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110th Infantry Regiment of the
28th Division in Eurtpe and
was seriously wounded in the
Hoertgon Forest fighting. His
decorations include the Bronze
Star for valor and the Purple
Heart.
In 1946 he was assigned to
the Caribbean Command in the
Panama Canal Zone and served
as secretary of the general
staff before returning home in
1948 to join the Military Staff
Committee of the United Na-
ttons in New York City.
Following graduation in 1949
from the Armed Forces Staff
College he took command of
the 76th Tank Battalion of the
11th Airborne (Angels) Division
at Fort Campbell Ky.
He subsequently served as
chief of staff to the U.S. Com
mander in Berlin in 1953-54 and
later joined the 2nd Armored
Division also in Germany
where he first commanded
Combat Command "B" and
then became division chief of
staff.
In 1959 General Mather left
his job as Army Director of
Military Personnel Manage
ment in the Pentagon for Ko
rea to become assistant com
mander tif the 7th Infantry
(Bayonet) Division. A year la
ter in 1960 he went to Fort
Sam Houston Tex. as chief of
staff of the Fourth U.S. Army.
From Texas he left for a
diplomatic assignment in 1961
to Brazil as chairman of the
Brazil-United States Military
Commission and Chief of the
Military Advisory and Assis
tance Group.
Last July General Mather
left Rio de Janeiro for Fort
Hood to take over leadership
of the 2nd Armored Division.
General Mather and his wife
the former Kathleen Carmich-
a el ha re
Randolph McGuire Bulgin of
Greensboro N. C. and George
Jr. now doing graduate work
in Physics at Columbia Univer
sity.
Address.
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missile maintenance officer
MOS 4516 maintenance offi
cer MOS 4803 mechanical
maintenance officer MOS 4815
and electronics maintenance of
ficer MOS 4825.
The establishment of the new
MOS is a direct result of the
reorganization of the Army
re a a go
ROAD concept. The concept re
quired that new positions be
created especially in the field
of logistics supply service
and maintenance areas.
To establish a new MOS sev
eral phases must be completed
in sequence: determination
of requirement or new mis
sion creation of new organi-
tions including skills involved
development of MOS for the po
sitions and establishment of
training programs.
Training programs to qualify
officers in each of the seven
newly established MOS are un
der way at the present time
or are being developed for in
troduction in the Army school
system in the near future.
Ex-Marine Top
Brigade NCO
Sgt. Maj. John C. Churchill
(Belton Tex.) an ex-marine
is the new sergeant major for
the 1st Armored Division's 3rd
Brigade "Bulldogs."
Sergeant Major Churchill en
listed in the Marines in Jan
uary 1946 and served with the
"leather-necks" until June 29
1949. On June 30 the Old Iron
id to is in
Army and began an uninter
rupted string of 16 consecutive
years of active duty.
During his tenure in the Army
Sergeant Major Churchill has
served four different overseas
tours (three of them in Ger
many) and has been awarded
three Army Commendation
Medals. He was promoted to
the highest enlisted grade in
November 1961.
The sergeant major currently
resides in Belton with his wife
Norma and their two children.
REVIEW
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Band will participate in he
ceremony and a firing battery
supplied by the 1st Armored
Division Artillery will fire a
15-gun salute.
General Fischer who has
commanded Fort Hood and its
os a
strength this side of the Iron
Curtain since January 1964
will motor to Fort Monroe with
his wife and daughter Tina.
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Sergeant Reenlists
At 13500 Feet
A Fort Hood sergeant and a
2nd Armored Division general
officer jumped for joy after a
13500-foot-high reenlistment ce
remony Wednesday.
SFC William E. Ritchie
(Hereford Tex.) was sworn in
for another six year hitch by
Brig. Gen. Robert H. Safford
2nd AD assistant commander.
The ceremony took place in
the rarefied air 13500 feet
above the Fort Hood reserva
tion. Then the two both mem
bers of the post Sky Divers
Club led four other club mem
bers in a free fall parachute
jump.
The reenlistment took place
in a cargo plane the U-1A Ot
ter which unloaded its human
cargo over the training area
near the intersection of George
town and Elijah Roads.
After 60 seconds of "free fall"
at more than 120 miles an hour
the sextet yanked their rip-
cords at 2250 feet and made a
pinpoint landing.
The two principals are both
officials of the Sky Divers Club.
General Safford is club presi
dent Sergeant Ritchie the vice
president.
Also making the jump were
Lt. Charles L. Abercrombie
(Danville Va.) Sgt. Edward L.
Barnes (Miami Beach Fla.)
Sgt. Gerald W. Ryburn (Wis-
ter Okla.) and Sp-4 John F.
Cristoff (Wichita Falls Tex.)
Sergeant Ritchie a veteran of
15 years Army service has
be at on at or
since 1959. He has been a sky
diver since the club was or
ganized in 1960.
Sergeant Ritchie went
Boy Scouts Tour
2nd-46th Infantry
Members of Boy Scout Troop
127 were given a view of the
workings of a modern infantry
battalion of the 1st Armored
Division last Saturday.
The scouts along with their
scout master PFC Louis Gior
dano (Providence R.I.) tour
ed the company areas and mo
tor park of the battalion that
sponsors their troop the 2nd
Bn. 46th Infantry. The tour
was conducted as part of Na
tional Boy Scout Week.
At each stop on the tour the
men performing various jobs
such as company clerk armor
er and training NCO explain
ed their duties to the visiting
scouts. After visits to dayrooms
and mess halls the scout were
taken to the battalion motor
park.
The scouts inspected vehicles
and procedures of maintenance
operated radio phones sets and
took turns firing the M-60 ma
chine gun with blank ammuni
tion. One of the displays that
attracted the most attention
from the scouts was the 4.2-
inch mortar. Its working fir
ing procedures and range were
explained to the scouts by Lt.
Douglas B. Gremel
Highlight of the morning was
rides for the scouts in the M-
48 tank and M-113 armored per
sonnel carrier.
through basic training at Fort
Riley Kans. then took airborne
and glider training.
He fought in Korea with the
1 8 7 a a
Team an airborne unit. Ritchie
holds the Combat Infantryman
Badge the Parachutist Badge
the Glider Badge and the Good
Conduct Medal among other
decorations.
He was one of the founders
of the Fort Hood Sky Divers
Club.
NIGHT
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entertainment will feature
relatively new musical group
the 1st Armored Division stage
band "The Continentals." Or
ganized just a little over a year
ago by CWO Vivian the band
is already well known through
out the Central Texas area.
The group will open its
portion of the show with music
in the rhumba beat with their
rendition of "More" by Orton-
lani and Olivero. The band will
then join their talents with
those of PFC Eugene Tiebout
(Hackensack N. J.) who will
sing a vocal medley.
The rousing old gospel tune
W he he S a in
Marching In" by E. C. Red
ding will be "The Continen
tals" next selection. PFC Julius
Hempill (Fort Worth Tex.)
and his alto saxophone will be
featured in the next number
'Rhumbolo" by A. Dedrick.
"The Continentals" will then
swing into the spirited melody
of "Hello Dolly" by J. Her
man and conclude part three of
"A Night With Old Ironsides"
with one of Irving Berlin's
many hits "I've Got My Love
To Keep Me Warm."
The 1st Armored Division
concert band will return to the
stage for the final portion of
the evening of musical enter
tainment. Their first number
will be a medley of western
favorites "Along The Navajo
Trail" "Nobody's Darlin' But
Mine" and "Just Because" all
tied together in a musical pack
age entitled "Prairie Reflec
tions."
One of the favorite street
songs of Italy will be the band's
next selection "Funiculi Funi-
cula" by L. Denza. Trumpet
ers Sgt. Don Delrymplo (Cor
pus Christi Tex.) Sgt. Ronald
Gagne (Manchester N. Y.) and
Sgt. Fred Bliss (Evanston 111.)
will share the spotlight when
the band blasts off on C. Brad
ford's space age inspired "The
Three Jets."
The band will conclude the
concert with their interpreta
tion of Rodgers and Hammer-
stein's exotic "The King and
Prior to the performance in
Theatre No. 1 "A Night With
Old Ironsides" will be present
ed for Fort Hood soldiers at
Fiddlers' Green Service Club on
Tuesday and Wednesday Feb.
23-24. There will be no admis
sion charge and all are invited
to attend.
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RIGKI IS IN A PICKLE—Napoleon said that
an army travels on it's stomach and Pvt. Ricki E.
Pickle (Nashville Tenn.) agrees wholeheartly.
While on KP duty in the 2nd Armored Division's
3rd Bn. 66th Armor mess hall Ricki worked in the
store room stacking pickles naturally. (U.S. Army
Photo)
CON ARC Officers
Visit Old Ironsides
The Canadian liaison officer
to the U.S. Continental Army
Command (USCONARC) Maj.
C. D. Buckingham visited units
of the 1st Armored Division to
observe Old Ironsides units in
training. Major Buckingham
was joined by Col. E. W. Wil
liams Director of Unit Train
ing for USCONARC.
First stop for the visiting
Canadian officer was with the
4th Bn. 3rd Artillery in the
field where he observed bat
teries' operational readiness
tests and qualification firing of
the infantryman's "pocket rock
et." Use of the M-79 grenade
launcher by battalions of the
2nd Brigade was the next phase
Aviation Arm To
Test Themselves
The 2nd Armored Division's
aviation arm will test itself on
its ability to move quickly both
in the air and on the ground
in a three-day test starting
next week.
The 502nd Aviation Bn. truck
and jeep convoy along with six
conventional planes and four
helicopters as escorts will
a el 2 4 S
Fort Hood to the North Fort
Hood area and the Longhorn
Air Strip.
Drone reconnaissance air
craft will also be fired during
the exercise. The drone is a
a re on a
craft used for reconnaissance
aerial photography.
Its takeoff is aided by two
Jet Assisted Takeoff (JATO)
bottles which blast it from it's
launch pad to a speed of 140
miles per hour in one second.
Fifteen pilots will also be
training in night flying recon
naissance runs and aerial pho
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of training the major watched.
Thursday Major Buckingham
was joined by Colonel Williams
for a trip to the Fort Hood
Tank Tables. Firing on Table
VII by the 1st Bn. 81st Ar
mor was the first training they
watched. Tank gunnery training
on Table VI by the 2nd Bn.
81st Armor provided the next
view of armor training in the
division for the visiting officer.
For a final observation of the
training in the division Colonel
Williams and Major Bucking
ham spent the afternoon ob
serving the 1st Bn. 52nd Infan
try during their field training
exercise.
Capt. Ray Sandlin (San An
tonio Tex.) 3rd Brigade avia
tion officer acted as escort
officer for the visiting digni
taries.
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After a seven year tenure
with the 2nd Armored Division
Maj. Calvin B. Emery (Perth
AmbOy N.J.) will leave Hell
On Wheels for reassignment in
Iran.
The major is presently as
signed to the division G-3 sec
tion and will be replaced by
Maj. Floyd C. Gober (Desse-
mer Ala.) also of the G-3 sec
tion.
From Fort Hood Major Em
ery will travel to Washington
Engineers Hold
Generator School
A generator school for 1st
Armored Division personnel is
currently being conducted by
Co. C 16th Engineer Bn.
The school is comprised of
two classes of about 25 men
each. The students are person
nel from throughout the divi
sion whose occupational spe
cialties call for them to have
knowledge of generators.
Civilian instructors are teach
ing the courses which are held
in the Engineers' motor park.
During the two-week period
that each student is in class
he receives thorough instruc
tion in the operation of nu
merous types of generators.
Draper Award Winner Leaves For Iran
D. C. for a month of class
room instruction at the Mili
tary Advisory Assistance Insti
tute.
Major Emery reports to the
U.S. Army Military Assistance
Group (MAAG) in Tehran
Iran. This will be his second
trip to Iran. He spent seven
months there before coming to
Fort Hood.
The major has been in the
Army since 1952 and has been
stationed in Fort Polk La.
Germany and Korea.
Major Emery has been very
instrumental in the planning of
many advanced training pro
grams now in use here at Fort
Hood.
He was the recipient of the
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award" and it is awarded to
the most outstanding leader of
a company size armor unit. Aft
er tests were conducted among
armor officers throughout the
entire Army final results show
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Tentative date for arrival in
Iran is May 12 and the major's
v/ife Rozanne and his two
children plan to accompany.
him on the new tour of duty.'
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