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TIS Sets
Serviced
By Co. A
Crews
The radio repair and distri
bution shop of the Communica
tions Section is kept busy all
night and day to insure a steady
supply of serviceable radio sets
to classes of The Infantry School.
Wtien am officers or enlisted
radio class has returned from
a day-long problem in the field,
its radio equipment has taken a
lot of punishment—many .4tu
dents have handled each set,
have taken it across country in
jeeps and other carriers, have
set it up and taken it down, mov
ed it, and started all over again
countless times during each
problem
“That's pretty bad on the set,"
says M Sgt. Edmond M. Juneau,
who heads the A Company crews
who must get those sets back in
shape “We put anywhere from
30 to 60 sets in working order
each day," Juneau estimates.
"It's routine after you’ve
worked here a few months,
though,” explains T. Sgt Ear!
R Rapp, enlisted chief of one of
the shifts “Occasionally a rough
Ist Sgt. KISSEL (Signal Corps Photo
Veteran Topkick Likes
New Outfit And Profs
“The Academic Regiment is a
great outfit," declared Ist Sgt
John Kissel this week, after he
had completed almost a month
of understudying Ist Sgt. Libren
D Cox of C Company. “I've
been in the Army 22 years, and
1 find these Infantry School boys
are as good a bunch of soldiers
as any I’ve met. I’m with a very
large company, but I find less
trouble than the average-sized
company has. Good police, good
soldiering, good all-round job.”
Not the least of his delights
with his new outfit is the ball
team he has seen practising out
in the Prof cuartel for the past
few weeks.
"What a club!” exclaims Kis
sel, who played first base forthe 1
Bth Infantry team that won the
Charleston. S. C. city champion
ship and the Fort Moultrie title
in 1937. “I’ve never missed a
ball game in my life if I could
help it—with a team like that
in the league I expect an excit
ing summer”
Enlisting in the field artillery
in 1922, Kissel has also seen ser-
COMPANY A MEN OF THE COMMUNICATIONS SECTION AT WORK IN THE RADIO REPAIR SHOP. (Left
to right) Sgt. Nethan H. Glenner, service man; T. Sgt. Lincol n Chann. repair crew chief, and M. Sgt. Edmond Juneau,
shop foreman, iOfficial U. S. Army Signal Corps Photo.l
job will take us half a day."
Rapp, who took a communica
tions course at Benning in 1941
and has been here ever since,
says that his men get to know
the peculiarities of each set
and—like a doctor remembering
each patient’s troubles -can put
their fingers on a set’s usual
vice in the ordnance and the In
fantry. and has been stationed
all over the United States While
on the 1943 Carolina maneuvers
he was getting set to “go over”
with his outfit when he was in
jured in the leg and disqualified
for foreign service.
During his eight hitches top
kick Kissel has met most of the
big names in the Army. He serv
ed under General Marshall when
the present Chief of Staff was a
regimental commander
“The general never forgets a
face,” Kissel says. "Four years
after he left my regiment he
came back to inspect the outfit
one day and he still knew me by'
name.” Commended for the ef
ficiency of his company on that
inspection in 1942, Kissel had
also been commended by Gener
al McNair for a “company in at
tack” problem he conducted in
1940.
Sgt. and Mrs. Kissel now re
side in Columbus where their
eight-year old daughter is at
tending school.
REGIMENTAL MIRROR
complaint as soon as it comes
back from the field. A telephone
and radio repairman for Western
Electric for eight years before
he entered the Service,* Rapp
says he’s gained a lot of valuable
experience at the Section.
T. Sgt. Lincoln Chann, whose
parents are in a Japanese-occu
pied area of China, heads the
other repair crew which relieves
Rapp’s shift every day. He held
an FCC and a commercial op
erator’s license in civilian life,
and once served as a radio op
erator in the merchant marine
A graduate of the RCA Radio
Institue at Chicago, he was cho
sen by the Communications Sec
tion to attend a special frequen
cy modulation radio repair
course at the Signal Corps
School in Lexington, Ky., last
summer, and since his return he
has taught “FM" repair to the
rest of the shop men.
Each shift, in addition to its
repair men, has a distribution
crew to set up the equipment
needed for each class and a
couple of battery men who run
the battery-charging plant
“First we see if the low bat
tery has enough distilled water
to cover the plates," explains
Cpl. Edwin Hunsicker, one of the
battery men. “Then we connect
it up with the charger and keep
checking it until it reaches the
proper specific gravity. We al
so have to make up the solu
tions of acids and distilled wat
er which are used in the batte
ries.”
Confirmation of the success of
the School’s system in the field
has been brought back to the
Section by T. Sgt. William Radik,
formerly a student here who has
returned as a radio repair man
after having headed the entire
communications set-up of the
131st Infantry during its lock
guard-duty in Canada. All of
his communications men were
graduates of the Communica
tions Section, Radik says, and
“every one of them was a good
man.”
Need Any Help
With Tax Forms?
Academics who must file
1944 declaration^ Os estimated
Federal income and victory
tax had better hop into head
quarters and see Lt. Vernon
C. Hoyt right away if they
need any help. The due date
of the declaration is Saturday,
April 15th.
NCOs, Backbone
Os Army, To Get
More Recognition
Non-Com Course
Graduates Join
Line Regiment
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icates were to be awarded to
those non-commissioned officers
who had assimilated the instruc
tion given. Maj. Jared then put
the detail at rest and told them
that the regiment was “very
proud of the class.”
PURPOSE ACCOMPLISHED
“I understand the course was
n't so easy," he said. “You men
a month ago were mainly spe
cialists—you had earned your
stripes because you could do one
job to perfection—but in a line
outfit you have to do all jobs
well. It was our intention that
you men have and keep your
stripes when you joined your
new outfits. 1 believe that our
purpose has been largely accom-
plished.”
CREDITS TIS
The major gave most of the
credit for the success of the
course to the officers of The In
fantry School who planned the
project. Maj. B. L. Learman,
School assistant director of train
ing. was in charge of the course.
“You are also indebted to
your company officers,” Maj.
Jared pointed out, referring to
Lt. Powers and Lt. John C.
Greer of F Company who super
vised close order drill (the non
com’s forte), and map reading,
in addition to handling the large
casual company.
“The majority of you men are
getting certificates,” the major
continued, “but all of you are
going out better equipped than
you were a month ago.”
T. Sgt. Josph B Rudd, rank
ing member of the class and for
merly an Automotive Section in
structor, was the first to receive
his diploma. As each man’s
name was called out by Lt.
Greer he came forward, saluted,
shook hands with the major, and
received his certificate.
The diploma stated that The
Infantry School, United States
Army, certified that the soldier
named had completed a refresh
er course covering certain mili
tary subjects, which were listed.
Thursday, April 13, 1944
(CNS) -Great care in the se
lection and promotion of non
commissioned officers in the U
S Army is urged by Gen Mar
shall in War Department Circu
lar 70, recently released, which
provides for the thorough train
ing of noncoms and the removal
of those who fail to attain or
maintain acceptable standards.
“It has been clearly demon
strated in this war, as in past
wars, that noncommissioned of
ficers are the backbone of the
Army,” the circular states. “Suc
cess in combat depends upon
the character and qualification*
of the noncommissioned officers
commanding small units. They
must be outstanding leaders with
a high sense of duty and a
strong will. They must be re
sourceful and willing to assume
responsibility
In order to assure that our
noncommissioned officers are
equal to the tasks that lie ahead
of them, commanders of all ech
elons will give their personal at
tention to improving the quality
and prestige of those noncom
missioned officers who exercise
command responsibility."
That these results may be at
tained, the order makes the fol
lowing provisions:
1. That machinery be estab
lished to provide for the careful
selection of noncommissioned
officer material and a system of
promotions that will be recog
nized as sound and just by all
concerned.
2. That appropriate noncom
missioned officer schools be es
tablished and operated.
3. That noncommissioned offi
cers who fail to attain or main
tain acceptable standards be re
moved.
4. That the prestige of the non
commissioned officer grades be
enhanced by the extension of ad
ditional privileges and liberties
to the holders of those ranks.
WD 70 also calls for public
recognition of the accomplish
ments and importance of non
coms, and, lastly, for the thor
ough indoctrination of every non
com with the importance and
responsibility of his grade and
position.
