Armored Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, October 6, 1972 Page: 4 of 24
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Joint Federal Campaign
seeking help from you
in annual fund drive
The Phantom has been gypped
again!. and by the same
establishment! Awhile back it
was discovered that one of the
vacuum cleaners at the main
post car wash didn't do much
more than make noise. (The
Phantom has noted that now
they have disconnected the hose
which presumably remedies the
situation?) Now the Phantom
lost a dime trying to extract a
towel from that metal towel-
vending device located just next
to the impotent cleaner. Besides
this it was necessary to tread
around on very wet mounds of
sand while washing is
Phantomobile in the first place.
The Phantom has also
re iv a in a
because of the abundance of
it a ha a
cleaned at this PX service area
persons with civilian autos have
had to wait excessive lengths of
time waiting their turn to play
in the mud. But for those of you
who might be impatient waiting
OtSG ANT COLONY
East 43rd St.
The combined Federal Campaign needs your
help. Three major groups of charitaJble organi
zations are joined in this once-a-year plea for funds.
The United Fund of Ft. Hood the National Health
Agencies and the International Service Agencies
are asking members of the Ft. Hood Community
to donate their fair share during the month of Octo
ber. Thirty six agencies in these organizations deal
with development of new medical program and re
search councling to the alcoholic an to support
voluntary family planning prevention of birth de-
fets research for up-to-date information to eye doc
tors and for seeking the conquest of cancer.
All these organizations are non-profit and exist
because a need exists—the need of a hungry child
or a dying cancer patient. The child doesn't know
who gives the food he eats he only knows he was
hungry and someone was kind enough to help. The
many patients suffering from cancer won't know
who provided the funds for research but when a
cure is found they will know the relief from suf
fering with this killer disease.
Heart patients will live a fuller lifle because of
your gift.
Musculair dystrophy multiple sclerosis and leu
kemia are all trying to rob us of our children. Help
fight these cripplers now before its too late
before your child is stricken.
If you wish your money will be channeled to
the organization you want to support. Have your
unit representative for CFC note which organiza
tion you prefer and he'll make sure your gift goes
where you want it to.
Give a lot if you can only a little if you
must— but give.
PHA
Armored Sentinel
for this place to shape up the
Phantom highly recommends
the Crafts Shop wash rack
located southwest of the field
maintenance shop which is free
including soap buckets
brushes and sheltered waxing
areas.
Reference the item in the
Sept. 15 Phantom Rag about
closing the main commissary
for inventory. The Phantom
wonders how long Safeway or
any other off-post grocery store
would stay in business if they
closed periodically for inventory.
Why doesn't the commissary
count their cans before or after
sales hours? Or try perpetual
inventory!
The Phantom tips his cloak to
the Claim Section troopers of
the III Corps and Ft. Hood Staff
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NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE
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A at or a
courteous service. The Phantom
do re a
against the government but if
necessary these guys provide
service plus.
New York N.T. 10(fl7
THE ARMOFFD SENTINEL FORT HOOD TEXAS
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You have just returned from a hard day in the
field office or motorpool and you're sweaty smelly
and sticky. The only thing you can think of is to
get out of the "green machine" suit and jump into
the nice warm wet shower.
The shower feels so good you decide to spend
a few extra minutes enjoying that sparkling spray
of fresh water. You turn off the shower dry off
stand in front of the mirror to comb your hair and
then return to your living area.
As you approach your area you suddenly get
a lump in your throat because you can see that you
have left your locker unlocked or you remembered
you left your wallet on the bunk and you can't see
it.
You rush up to your locker and franticly check
it you search the floor and pull bed apart in hopes
of finding it had fallen off the bed or that you just
mislaid it.
BUT THEY GOT YOU—THEY RIPPED YOU
OFF and it's right after payday.
You curse but it doesn't do you any good be
cause the thief is long gone. But then you sure
could have prevented it.
The simplest way of course would have been
to lock your locker while you went to "shower"
Pvt. E-2 Isaac Moses
124th Main. Hq. Med. Co.
About ten. Well the food is
alright sometimes but often I'm
not very hungry so I just go to a
snack bar on post.
-TU/FP Cdtfos AT /=.AULT
Spec. 4 Granger
2nd Bn. 41st Inf.
A week probably about 15. I
eat at the VOLAR mess hall
most of the time because it's
better food than the mess hall.
.. FT*/ SOMEBODY
MY
LIFTED
WALLET//
The big rip-off can easily be prevented
down" or take your wallet with you (which some
times isnt the best thing to do).
There are however a few other things that
could have done to prevent the loss of all the money
you had in your wallet.
First off the Army provides the means of get
ting paid by check through the Joint Uniform Mili
tary Pay System (JUMPS) and that check can be
deposited in the bank of your choice without you
touching it. That way all you have to do is carry
a check book around.
Of course if you don't want to deal with a bank
you could have just received a check cashed it and
put most of the money in the safe in your orderly
room. If you insist on keeping cash on hand that
is this would be the best method but sometimes
you want some money and you can't get it out of the
safe.
Another way of protecting your money would
have been to write down the serial numbers on a
piece of paper and then put that piece of paper in
the safe. This is good practice if you insist on
keeping the money on your person but the recovery
rate of the money is lower than the percentage of
apprehensions of the criminal when MPs have a
lead—like being able to trace the money. And if
SPEAKING OUT
Spec. 4 Tom Arlt
21st. Evac. Hos.
Well I haven't been here very
long but on the average about
two a day. One thing I've
noticed is that the quality isn't
what I've expected. At Ft.
Carson it was much much
better.
How many meals do you normally eat in the Mess Hall each week and why
Spec. 4 Wilbur Sawyer
52nd Sig. Bn.
Mostly all of them. I don't
know why nowhere else to eat I
guess I eat about three meals a
day.
Pfc. Purtee
1st Bn. 92nd Arty. Battery
I don't even eat meals here.
The meals are really terrible at
the 1st of the 92nd I think. I eat
at hamburger stands or at a
friend's house. Once in a while I
go down to breakfast and have a
bacon sandwich or something
like that but that's all. I don't
eat lunch or anything.
Friday October 61972
AGAIN 7-T/LATS
"THE THIRD J]ME
TH& MO/VTTF.
you do get your money returned the lapse of time
has caused you financial trouble.
There is one sure way you can beat the bar
racks theif if you insist on keeping money on hand
and that is to convert the cash into Traveler's
checks.
Traveler's checks can be obtained at any bank
for a small charge of 10 cents per check and the
checks come in various denominations.
The best thing about Traveler's checks is that
you get a receipt with them and if you lose them or
someone rips you off all you have to do is return
to the bank of issue present your receipt and iden
tification and the missing checks can be replaced.
The whole thing can be fast efficient and it is a
hell of a lot cheaper than losing all of your money.
Of course one other nice thing about Travel
ers' checks is that almost every commercial business
will accent them as long as you can present proper
identification.
So the next time you run into the shower
and forget to lock your locker or leave the wallet
on your bunk you just might be out only the little
time and effort it takes to walk to the bank to have
the checks replaced.
And besides you would have the great feeling
of actually "getting over" on the barracks thief.
Pvt. E-2 Barry Seibert
11th Data Proc. Det.
I eat possibly two meals a
day. Their food isn't to my
liking and I'd rater eat off post.
I usually eat at one of the
hamburger places or at the
steak house. I eat dinner on
post.
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