Regimental mirror. (Fort Benning, Ga.) 1943-194?, March 23, 1944, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextThursday, March 23, 1944 Communications (Continued from Page 2 1 lains and repairs all of the field equipment needed by the whole committee. Since hundreds of students are using wire equip ment every day, its repair, which is supervised by Sgt. Thornell, is a concentrated assignment which must be completed at ex pert speed CIPHER MESSAGES The most “sensational” part of communications, so far as the layman and the movies are con cerned, is taught by the message center unit of the wire commit tee, which is headed by S. Sgt. Supply Sarge Niebler Has Certainly Changed! When Elmer F. Niebler was a little boy he always made his mother unhappy by the untidy appearance of his room. Try as she might she could never get him to keep his closet in order and put everything on the proper shelves. Mrs. .Niebler should see her boy Elmer now! His supply room in C Com pany, Academic Regiment, is a model of neatness and efficiency. Every item of GI stands in per fect ranks on the shelves, metal equipment shines and canvas and clothing are spotlessly clean. S. Sgt Niebler can’t explain the change that has come over his life He suspects that there must be some difference be tween the civilian and military approach to things But in two respects Niebler's life has not changed. In civilian life he was a star ball player, on his way up into professional baseball at the time he was in ducted; since he has been in the Army he has improved his chances of getting into the big time. And he hasn’t changed much either in regard to pin-up girls. 380 BATTING AVERAGE At Andrew’ Jackson high school, in Queens, N. Y., Niebler played varsity ball for three years, batting over .370 and playing the outfield on the team that won the 1939 New York City title. As a result of his scholastic sports record he was hired by the Frank Medico pipe company and played in the Queens Alliance League for two years, winning a cup for leading the Medico team with a BA of 380, and getting a chance to play with such up-and-coming diamond stars as Rizzuto, Marius Russo, Priddy and McCormack. It was while he was playing at a ball field in Brooklyn, in cidentally, that he saw a beauti ful girl in the stands who, he decided, would be his wife if he had anything to say about it. Apparently he did, for she’s S. SGT. GRAY RUTHERFORD. ASSISTANT INSTRUC - tor of Wire Committee. Communications Section, shows a class the operation of an Army switchboard (Official U S Army Photo—The Infantry School. I Joseph Herskowitz. Cryptogra phy and the careful use of the converter, a cipher machine, are included in the message center system employed in the field by the Infantry regiment. As part of their painstaking effort to in sure proper training for enciph •ering and deciphering of mes sages in battle, Sgt. Herskowitz’ men also hold review sessions for students who fall behind the rest of the class. The operation of each of the now Mrs. Sonhia Niebler GIANTS TO PROFS He was in spring training with the Salisbury (N. C.) Giants, getting set to join the Jersey City Giants when Uncle Sam de cided he should join a different team in another International League. He came to the Aca demic Battalion in 1942 in time to play on the ISSC squad that won the eighth consecutive post title for the Infantry School When the basketball season came around he played forward for the first “Prof” team, which won the first half title and lost to the Leaders in a thrilling play-off at the close of the split season. ON GOWDY’S TEAM Last year Niebler really got into big-time Army baseball. He traveled with Maj. Gowdy’s TIS team that started off the season with 20 contests with topnotch southern aggregations, and then batted .331 during the rip-snort ing Infantry School league com petition which saw the first-half champion Profs get nosed out in the final night of the seven-game playoff against the powerful Spirits last September. PIN-UP COLLECTION Out in the cuartel these days Niebler can be seen warming up for his third consecutive year of diamond play at Fort Benning. And anybody who's interested can see, in thfe Company C sup ply room, the results of his three year’s pursuit of another hob by — collecting pin-ups. The finest collection to be found in the regiment is partly represent ed under the glass of Niebler’s desk. Once a certain high-rank ing visiting officer inspected REGIMENTAL MIRROR various types of radio sets used by the combat Infantry regiment is taught by the Radio Sets Com mittee, to which 25 A Company , Academics are assigned. The pride and joy of the RSC men is the frequency modulation set now in use by the Infantry and taught here at Benning since last summer. Most of the conferences for en listed classes are given by M. Sgt. J. Skrljack and T. Sgt H Somerson, who are known as “rostrum instructors.” An inter mediary group of assistant in structors—who do both rostrum and practical teaching—is head ed by T. Sgt. Joseph Crabtree and includes S. Sgt. Paul Van iman, S. Sgt. Sherwood Rich ardson and Sgt. Ryan Halloran. Most of the instruction on ra dio sets, particularly field ex pedients, is done in the practi cal work sessions. Each enlisted instructor supervises five or six groups of students, teaching and quizzing them, for example, on C Company while Niebler was out with a truck. He went no further than Niebler’s desk, re marking that this supply ser geant must be a great lover! Niebler says he’s heard every thing now that he’s heard about M. Sgt. Brown’s inspection of the WACs for POR. After the war he will be content to play base ball and raise a family. SUPPLY SGT. ELMER F. NIEBLER, OF C COMPANY, ACADEMIC REGIMENT, whose mother could never get him to keep his closet shelves in order! (Official U. S. Army Photo—The Infantry School ) Veterans To Get Civil Service Job Priority (CNS)—Servicemen and women honorably discharged from the armed forces are going to ride the inside track when appointments to jobs in the executive branch of the Federal Government are made, the U. S. Civil Service Com- mission disclosed. Servicemen are entitled by | law to preference in Federal ap pointments through the Civil Service system, according to the commission. Here are some of the breaks they get: They are given five points in addition to their earned rating in civil service examinations. Therefore, in written examina tions they need earn a rating of only 65 in order to attain eligi bility Non-veterans must a chieve a rating of 70. Ten points are added to the earned ratings of disabled vet erans or those who are over 55 I years old and because of dis- : ability are entitled to pension I or compensation Ten points are also added to the ratings of the j widows of veterans and to the ratings of the wives of those disabled veterans whose disabili ty prevents them from being em ployed in jobs in line with their former occupations. Ten point veterans need earn a rating of only 60 per cent in written ex aminations. Servicemen are examined without regard to height, weight and age requirements, except for such positions as guard, police man and fireman. Physical re quirements may be waived en tirely for disabled veterans in some cases. They are appointed to Federal positions without regard to the apportionment rule, which pro vides that appointments to the departments in Washington shall be apportioned among the states tuning sets or trouble-shooting S. Sgt. Richard Hinkle is in charge of the practical work in field net activities in officers classes, assisted chiefly by S Sgt. George McCloughan and Sgt. Myrton Gordon. The committee's radio repair shop keeps a crack crew of ten mechanics at work repairing an average of 30 radio sets a day. Thirteen non-coms handle the shop's distribution of radio sets to various units and classes of the school. M. Sgt. Edmond Juneau coordinates the various activities of the shop, which in clude work Oi. visual aids. (The work of the enlisted Academics of Communications Section will be continued in the next article of the series.) PAGE THREE and territories according to pop ulation Servicemen are given t. • priv ilege of filing applications for examinations which have closed but for which lists of eiigibles exist or are about to be estab lished. Such examinations are called “reopened’' examinations. In order to establish his right to this preference, the veteran should file with his application for Federal employment the commission’s preference form Form 14—and acceptable proof of his honorable discharge, the commission has announced Only Relatives Can Get Info On GI Whereabouts The number of daily inquiries pertaining to the whereabouts of individual soldiers has become so great that in the future specific replies will be sent only to mem bers of Congress, parents and close relatives of soldiers, and certain public authorities, the War Department has announced. Casual acquaintances of sol diers account for more than 750 inquiries each day. The volume of work entailed and the number of employees en gaged in answering the inquiries have made the new restrictions necessary, the War Department stated. In the future, requests for in formation on soldiers received from persons other than those named in the aforementioned category will be acknowledged by a form card from The Adju tant General. The card will state “The pressure of wartime du ties has made it necessary for the War Department to discon tinue some of the services which, in peacetime, it has been able to render For that reason, com pliance with your request is not possible without sacrificing at tention to matters of vital im portance to the war effort "Because of the urgency of the present situation, it is hoped you will accept this explanation in a spirit of wholehearted coopera tion.”