Armored Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, February 19, 1971 Page: 1 of 16
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VOL. 30 NO. 5
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Enlistments Double
Under Unit Option
"During the first two weeks
of recruiting under the new
unit of choice enlistment op
tion we have doubled our
number of recruits" said Sfc.
Bill Warren Army recruiter
at Temple Texas.
a re it re
began participating in the
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enables a qualified male ap
plicant to enlist in his choice
of seven stateside units and
be guaranteed assignment to
that unit. Included in the pro
gram are the 1st and 2nd
Armd. Divs. Ft. Hood 1st
Inf. Div. Ft. Riley Kansas
197th Inf. Bde. Ft. Benning-
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Cav. Ft. Lewis Wash. and
the 82nd Airborne Div. Ft.
Bragg N. C.
"The new program seems
to be highly successful" noted
Warren. "It works right along
with the modern volunteer
Army concept."
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are limited to the basic com
bat arms—armor infantry
artillery and combat engineer.
Although a man is guaranteed
assignment with the unit of
his choice such a guarantee
is not extended to his specific
job battalion or battery with
in that unit according to the
recruiting NCO.
After completing his basic
an ad an in iv id a
training an enlistee may
either be assigned to his
chosen unit or serve a one-
year overseas tour. Following
a short tour he is assigned
he it os to
plete ihis tour of duty.
"He is not definitely
obligated to serve an overseas
tour for a year" explained
Warren "but the possibility
does exist. He is more than
likely to spend a major por
tion of his tour at the unit of
his choice. In addition he may
wear the patch of his desired
unit during his basic training
which might be of particular
interest to those whose fathers
served with the same unit."
A volunteer in the program
assuming a three-year tour of
duty obligation is eligible for
specialized training in over 300
schools providing instruction
in el on is
maintenance aircraft
maintenance medical service
missiles and data processing.
Officers' Candidate School is
available for college graduates
and NCO Candidate School is
a a a or
graduates.
The Temple Recruiting Sta
tion has a recruiting team
or in in iv a
counties —Bell Coryell
Milam Falls and Hamilton
serving 11 n Cop-
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SENTINEL SHORTS
THE WINTER GENERAL meeting of the Cen
tral Texas Ft. Hood chapter of the Association
:J^of the United States Army will be held Monday at
S p.m. at the NCO Open Mess.r
4^ Addressing the membership will be Lt. Gen.
George L. Forsythe special assistant for the modern
volunteer Army.
COMPUTERS DO make mistakes. The Joint
Uniform Military Pay System-Army (JUMPS) com
puter was so busy figuring the new pay raise last
month it forgot to increase the FICA tax.
But computers also find their mistakes very
quickly. As a result the new 5.2 per cent social
security tax will be added to the February pay
checks. The correction will include a retroactive ad
justment on the February voucher for the erroneous
deduction made in January.
Personnel not paid by computerized check are
unaffected by the error.
THREE CONCERTS are scheduled this week
as part of the '71 Parade of American Music national
observance. "The Lone Star Dispatch" will perform
Sunday at 7:30 in the Entertainment Center.
The 1st AD stage band will present a tribute
to American composers Thursday at 7:30 at the
center which is located on Brigade Avenue west
of 162nd Street.
A jazz rock and soul concert will be the "A
Weird Beginning" production tomorrow night at 7:30
at the center.
THE FT. HOOD chapter of the Non
commissioned Officers Association will hold a general
membership meeting Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the EM
Club. Jimmie L. Pfeffer executive vice president
of the International NCO Association will be the
guest speaker.
Inside Story
The 2nd Armd. Div. has been awarded the
Honor Safety Award page 5. The 529th MI Co
improved its interrogation compound for its sec
ond exercise page 7.
Social Notes 6 Eye Catcher 16
Movies 12 Passtime 3
Sports 10 11 Classified 15
The Central Texas-Ft. Hood
chapter of the Association of
the United States Army will
be trying for two in a row
when it holds its winter
general meeting at the NCO
Open Mess Monday evening.
At the national AUSA
meeting in Washington in Oc
tober the local chapter was
given the plaque for having
had the best single meeting of
fiscal year 1970.
Monday's meeting will begin
at 6 p.m. with a social hour
which will be followed by din
ner at 7. Dress will be casual
or Class A uniform.
Guest speaker for the even
ing will be Lt. Gen. George
I. Forsythe special assistant
for the modern volunteer
Army.
Tickets for the affair are
$2 and may be purchased
through unit sergeants major.
Speaker at the prize-winning
barbecue held last June 26
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DOWN WHERE IT'S AT Spec. 4 Kenneth
Hamman 501st S&T Bn. demonstrates the proper
form for the low crawl phase of the annual Physical
Combat Proficiency Test (PCPT). The Providers
opened the PCPT season on Feb. 9 in the testing
area just off North Ave. (U.S Army photo by Spec.
4 David Marroquin)
Valentine's Day can be very lonely for a soldier
away from home and sweetheart but miracles do
happen according to Spec. 4 Albert Stevens Jr.
SflCo. C 1st Bn. 50th Inf. 2nd Armd. DiV.
Stevens' name was recently selected in the 'Be"
My Valentine" contest sponsored by KTEM Radio
in Temple entitling his fiancee to be flown to Texas
to spend the holiday v^ith him all expenses paid.
Stevens entered the contest while patronizing
a restaurant in Temple and was in competition with
1200 other entries.
"This is the first time I've ever won anything
in my life" commented Stevens. "It's great!"
Kathy Miller Stevens' fiancee from Asheville
N.C. arrived in Temple last Friday evening and
was greeted by city and radio officials. She was
Four officers of the
Norwegian Army visited the
1st and 2nd Armd. Divs. Feb.
17-20 and observed various
ha of he iv is
training program.
On Thursday the group con
sisting of an infantry colonel
artillery lieutenant colonel
a a a a
quartermaster major visited
the 2nd Armd. Div. to observe
and evaluate the conduct and
Significant Numbers Attend
The annual post-wide religious
retreat brings to Ft. Hood
fascinating speakers from all
over the country and from many
denominations. One face that is
familiar to Ft. Hood is that
of the Reverend Father Thomas
F. Egan S. J.
This is the fifth year Egan
has participated in the religious
retreats on post. As a former
chaplain he was stationed at
Ft. Hood twice during his
was the national president of
he as so at on
Secretary of the Army Frank
Pace.
Pace told the 1500 gathered
in Pritchard Stadium that
there was an instinct that the
nation was in trouble and call
ed on Americans to speak out
and support the military.
"The instinct to destroy us
is controlled in a cultivated
way" he said. It was evident
he added that the young "for
Norwegian Officers Visit
effectiveness of its training
program.
Tactical mechanized units
on the company battalion and
a a
demonstrated the use of
training aids particularly sub-
calibre weapons firing.
The group included Col. Leiv
Oyri Lt. Col. Odd Thorbjorn
Innset Maj. Johannes Lunder
and Maj. Karstein Arvid Kris-
tiansen.
Elements of the division's
military career.
As a former assistant division
chaplain Egan helped to plan
religious retreats and has a
thorough knowledge of the pro
gram. He considers it one of
the most effective religious pro
grams offered in the military
service. Over the last two
weeks while conducting the
Catholic retreat program at the
2 A iv a
Chapel he has been pleased
the first time do not believe
in the future of this country."
"It is time to speak out and
tell the story of the Army's
contribution to the United
States" he also told the au
dience.
At the last meeting held
Nov. 6 at the Bluestem Lake
Resort in Copperas Cove the
re S re a of
Army Stanley R. Resor ad
dressed association members
saying that "The president's
ARMORED SENTINEL
Published in the interest of the personnel of Fort Heed
FORT HOOD TEXAS FRIDAY FEBRUARY 19 1971
A four-phase drug abuse
prevention program is being
established at Ft. Hood which
will contribute to or result in
the control and prevention of
drug abuse.
The program will be geared
to each every member of the
military command here. It
will be made available to all
individuals authorized medical
care and to the civilian com
munity as capability permits
according to Ft. Hood Regula
tion 40-18.
The Korean economy has
been rebuilding since World
War II but a tremendous need
still exists.
More than 7 million rural
people live in caves and
tarpaper shacks lucky to have
one meal a day. They have
little or no medical care and
thousands die every year from
tuberculosis and pneumonia.
American dollars through
the American-Korean Fouiv
dation provide encouragement
to the Korean people to build
their own homes and com
munities. Only $350 buys
He Won His Sweetheart
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Day
AUSA Schedules Winter Meeting For Monday
Military personnel will
receive educational in
structions concerning drugs
commonly abused the drug
a a
problems users often ex
perience.
Phase one of the program
will involve one and a half
hour seminars to be given to
every officer on the post and
to be reviewed quarterly for
all newly arrived officers.
The first phase given to of
ficers will include such topics
building materials for a
house. They carve new pro
ductive acres from devastated
land heal their sick save
destitute children from the
streets provide vocational
training for those too poor to
a on a a
grades and help support
Korea's 4-H clubs.
Proof that American money
accomplishes a great deal in
South Korea is the impressive
new 120-bed Lucy G. Moses
Children's Center at the Kae-
on I it or a
Health 100 miles southwest
of Seoul.
presented with a dozen red roses and she and her
fiancee spent the rest of the weekend being chauf-
feured through the area in a limousine tjit
"We were taken through the state capitbi by
State Rep. John Bigham of Temple" said Stevens
'and had lunch with him. He also made us honorary
Texans."
The Inner Space Caverns near Austin were also
on the agenda for the couple during the weekend
visit.
Stevens was also the recipient of a $10 gift
certificate in a men's store while his fiancee received
a box of candy a purse and other prizes.
Miss Miller left Sunday after a weekend to re
member according to Stevens. They are planning a
June wedding.
2nd Brigade demonstrated 4.2
mortar firing and 19 6
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Members of the 1st Battalion
J66th Airmor were training
with the mortars at the Reed
Mountain mortar range. The
Norwegian officers were brief
ed on the recoilless rifle
training by the 1st Bn. 50th
Inf. at the Sugar Loaf range.
The first two tank tables
in the progression of eight
were shown to the visiting
Norwegians by the 2nd Bn.
67th Armor. The men of the
3rd Brigade's 2nd Bn. 66th
Armor were driving tanks on
tables IV and while the
visitors were briefed on
armored unit training.
The final training orien
tation was given by the 2nd
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N or an
Cavaliers conducting an as-
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Ex Chaplain Feels Retreat Most Effective
with the unit participation in
the program.
As a completely voluntary
am he re re at
anywhere from 25 to 40 per
cent of the strength of various
units participating. This is a
"very significant number" said
Egan.
A "Religious Retreat Ques
tionnaire" is filled out at the
end of each day by the soldiers
who took part in the day's pro
program of Vdetnamization
the program of the orderly
redeployment from Vietnam
is working far better than
we might have dared predict
something over a year ago."
Turning to the cold war Re
sor said "We are in an age of
nuclear equality with the
Russians" and because of that
"must not yield to the tempta
tion to unilaterally withdrawn
forces from NATO."
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expression off the Department of the Army. The appearance of advertisements in this publication does not constitute on endorsement by the Deparment of the Army of the products or services advertised.
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gram and according to Egan
"About one out of every three
recommend that we offer this
type of program more than just
once a year and that we
lengthen it to at least a day
and a half. There are so many
topics of interest to be discuss
ed we are sometimes cut short
due to the time factor."
Relevant problems such as
drug and alcohol abuse sex and
marriage often call for more
The AUSA which President
Harry Truman called "a great
company of patriots" con
cerns itself with the problems
facing the military and how
to best combat these.
How association efforts pro
vide direct benefit to the
membership and the U.S.
Army is demonstrated by a
letter from Brig. Gen. Robert
F. Cocklin USAR director of
public affairs AUSA.
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as drug abuse resources
available at Mental Hygiene
understanding the new drug
re a
an a a
a oh is an
therapy. These topics will
cover the first hour and a
quarter. The last 15 minutes
be to
dynamics. This will explain
how unit commanders can
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discussions on drug abuse and
related social problems.
Korea Needs Helping Hand
The center provides care for
a an do an a
children from the entire pro
vince and also serves as a
demonstration and teaching
facility for child-care workers.
The American-Korean Foun
at on a so vi
in or
S a a os pi a
stands next to the center.
Here Dr. Lee Young Choon
HIS VALENTINE Spec. 4 Al
bert Stevens Jr. of the 50th Infantry
2nd AD greets his sweetheart Kathy
Miller as she arrives in Temple after a
flight from Asherville N. C. Miss Mil
In a memorandum to
association chapters under the
subject of "CAB Ruling
ReMilitary Standbys to be
Withdrawn" Cocklin reports:
"It came to our attention
on 8 February through a
on of
members that a tariff filed
by Continental Airlines was
accepted by the Civil Aeronau
tics Board. The tariff permit
ted airlines to give priority to
civilian standbys over those
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The second phase Will be
the drug abuse team. This
team will present drug
presentation tso every soldier
in every unit in groups not
to exceed company size. A
typical presentation will con
sist of 20 to 25 minutes of
discussion by a professional
and two social work techni
cians from mental Hygiene
Consultation Service. They
will speak on the psycological
aspects the physical problems
has worked selflessly for 35
years among the poor people
of the area.
You can contribute to this
work being done in South
Korea by designating your
contribution to the fund rais
ing campaign at Ft. Hood for
the American-Korean Foun
dation. The American-Korean
Foundation is only one of four
international Service Agencies
time says Egan and the
Catholic Retreats for example
are also faced with lengthy
discussions about the changes
within the church the church's
stand on war etc.
Egan has noted that while
there was little dissent about
the war in Vietnam during his
earlier participation in post
retreats the topic is discussed
freely now.
"lie fact that such things can
from the military. This
decision was based solely on
the fact that civilian fares are
higher than those charged the
military.
"We contacted the CAB to'
determine the facts and to
protest the action. While we
could not contest the decision
on the economic need of the
airlines we pointed out that
he is on is it
hardship on military personnel
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and the social implications of
drug abuse.
Following the speakers will
be a five minute presentation
by either a former user or
present user who is a member
of the Drug Abuse Group
Therapy program at MHCS.
The aim is to educate the
enlisted men on the dangers
of drug abuse and to dispel
the unrealistic ideas about it.
Phase three of the drug
prevention program will be
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participating in the fund rais
ing campaign. Other ISA
agencies to which you can
designate your contribution
are: CARE Project HOPE
and Planned Parenthood-
World Population.
The National Health Agen
cies participating in the cam
paign are: Easter Seals Na
tional Society for the Preven-
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ler was flown to Temple to spend the
Valentine holiday with her fiancee af
ter he won a contest sponsored by Tem
ple businessmen. (Photo Courtesy Tem
ple Daily Telegram)
be discussed openly at a
military installation is an ex
tremely healthy condition in a
land that is proud of its
democratic traditions" com
mented Egan. "The questioning
attitudes of some soldiers to
wards the national objectives
extended itself to questioning
the position of the church. There
are many young men wiho feel
the church should change even
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and was bound to create a
vast reservoir of ill-will for
both CAB and the airlines.
"We are pleased to report
that we were advised today
that effective 10 March 1971
on in a A in
it a he a if a
the situation will revert to its
previous status.
"We have asked the CAB to
ad vi he a
affecting the military come
before them in the future."
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