Regimental mirror. (Fort Benning, Ga.) 1943-194?, April 13, 1944, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextSTUDENTS OF THE ACADEMIC REGIMENT’S UTIVE OFFICER (EXTREME RIGHT). ADDRESSES THE FIRST NON - COMMISSIONED OFFICERS SCHOOL GRADUATING CLASS. (Official U. S Army Photo- The STAND AT REST AS MAJ. MARVIN W. JARED. EXEC- Infantry School.) GIM E NTA MI URO R > VOL. 2 TECHNICAL SERGEANT JOSEPH B. RUDD RE CEIVES HIS CERTIFICATE FROM MAJ. MARVIN W. JARED, EXECUTIVE OFFICER, AT THE GRADUATION EXERCISES OF THE NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS SCHOOL. LT. PHILIP W. POWERS F COMPANY COM- FORT BENNING. GEORGIA THURSDAY, APRIL 13. 1944 MANDER, LOOKS ON WHILE LT. JOHN C. GREER (RIGHT) CALLS OUT THE NAMES OF STAFF SERGE ANTS WILLIAM E. CONKEL, RICHARD DRIVER AND EDMUND FELINIAK, NEXT IN LINE. (Official U S Army Photo—The Infantry School.) Non-Com Grads Go To Line Regiment Sixty-one graduates of The Infantry School - Academic Regiment’s first non-commis sioned officers course have been transferred to Camp Chaffee, Ark., and have al ready taken up their new du ties with the 174th 'lnfantry under the policy of rotation of troops, it was announced by headquarters today. Almost all of the graduates who completed the 30-day refresher course last Thursday morning have now been reassigned to units destined for overseas service. Although it was known both at headquarters and at the School as early as last week that Maj. Marvin W Jared, regimen tal executive officer, would take the 61 men to Camp Chaffee the day after their graduation, pub lic announcement could not be made until the troop movement had been completed. The mass transfer of Academ ics, including ratings from tech nical sergeant down, was effec ted under the most favorable conditions for the men concern ed. Each non-com had just fin ished a month of intensive train ing probally unequaled in any non-com school in the Army, since the Academic Regiment men have been privileged to take a course largely parallel to that given to officer candidate classes at The Infantry School. SECOND CLASS STARTS The second class, consisting of approximately 125 men from Companies A to E, moved in to F Company as soon as the first group had been transferred and started the course on Monday, April 10th The brief military graduation of the first class took place in the F Company, Harmony Church area in an atmosphere of warm professional pride last Thursday. The morning was bright and bracing cool and the ranks were bristling with health when Ist Sgt. Oliver L. Green, topkick of the casual F Com pany, saluted the major and the compamy officers and reported: “The detail is formed, sir.” No. 30 Lt. Philip W. Powers, compa ny commander, took over the class and announced that certif- (Continued on Page 2)