DOCSLIB.ORG

TRAIL~ · ~ Rj BLAZER

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text

Load more

TRAIL~ · ~ rj BLAZER I WINTER2004 I The President's Report Stanley J. Lambert ere it is again-a deadline! schedule. The Friday activities re­ the late Donald "Charlie" Pence. Our worthy "Trailblazer" ceived much of our attention and The auditorium will be named for H Editor isn't one to let his have required a gen erous amount him. contributors forget. As if that re­ of Dorothy's and my e-mail, phone The 70th RRC made a further minder was not enough, the bel­ and U.S. mail exchanges for the request. They wanted information lowing calves we have just weaned past month. Fortuitously, the on a Loren Christianson, the WWII and corralled are distinctly crying, peripatetic Floyd Freeman (I/275) 70th Band Director, for whom the "Trailblazer - November 15." and Anne S chmidt paid us an music library in a wing of the au­ overnight visit in early October. ditorium will be named. Can any * Floyd was of tremendous help in one tell us anything about him? After the great Central States arranging a Chicago River cruise, Reunion in Cedar Rapids, Dorothy bus and meal accommodations * and I, graciously accompanied by etc. ebmaster Steve Dixon, HM Jack Nothnagle, 570 Signal; and Registration details will appear W has drawn our attention to Paul and Peggy Sumner, E/276 in the Spring "Trailblazer," but a poignant "USA Today" article made a two day visit to our 2004 you can expect the usual fare of (November 10, 2003) about a baby n a tional reunion site in Arlington events, plus a surprise or two. boomer's search for the experi­ Heights, Illinois. We had been Committee chair persons have ences of his reclusive WWII father. there previously, but the hotel had been or will be appointed. It goes The boomer r eceived fulfillment, changed hands. We further laid without saying that volunteers will as have numerous 70th Division plans for our September 1-5, 2004 be welcome ... or drafted. The in­ "children," wh en he located his dispensable Lou Hoger, G/275 dad's old unit's reunion. will be backing up our registration Which brings me to the recur­ crew (John Craig, F / 275; Jack ring interest in extending full vot­ Nothnagle and others) . Start ing rights in our 70th Infantry Di­ planning now for your contribu­ vision Association to the Associate The tion to the Silent Auction chaired Members in good standing. No Trailblazer by Paul and Peggy Sumner. Other vote on such an amendment in committee chairs will be listed in 2004 could be taken without due is published four times a year the Spring "Trailblazer." process. I would, however, sug­ by the 70th Infantry Division gest a cool and dispassionate dis­ Association and friends. Sub­ * cussion of the matter at our 2004 scription: $16 annually. artier in the fall I received a business meeting. call from our friends at 70th At Walter Cox's (E/274) urg­ Editor E Regional Readiness Command ing we contemplate reopening unit Ed Lane (RRC), US Army Reserve which is attendance competition in 2004. P.O. Box 1282 h eadquartered at Ft. Lawton, That was a feature of earlier re­ Radcliff, KY 40159 Washington. They requested that unions. Units would be defined as (270) 352-0753 we select a WWII T railblazer for rifle or weapons companies, artil­ [email protected] whom a new a uditorium at Ft. lery batteries, headquarters com­ Staff Artist Lawton will be named. That panies, signal companies, etc. Peter Bennet posed a problem, for there a re Perhaps a traveling trophy will en­ 3031 Sir Phillips Dr. many Trailblazers, living a nd ter t he picture, although not too San Antonio, TX 78209 dead, who are worthy of recogni­ many bienniums may pass before (210) 828-5477 tion. it ends up a t the Pearly Gates. Our Vice President-Central, All of which brings me to this Graphic Designer the much decorated Bill Trotter, appeal for a banner turn out at Martin E. Biemer B/275 had no doubts. It should the 2004 reunion. As always the Louisville, KY be h is old commanding officer. main attraction will be the renew­ Volume 62 Number 1 Further aided by the gripping ar­ ing of friendships forged during WINTER2004 ticle in the Fall "Trailblazer", the t h e seminal occurrence of our Executive Committee settled on lives. Spouses, associates and ex- 2 70th Infantry Division Association TRAILBLAZER f)l~l~I(;I1.\J.. N()'Jl(;E First call for propositions tended families are, of course, a cherished part of our gatherings_ for September 2004 reunion We have found that the Chicago area has afforded a very attractive irst call for propositions to be mit propositions. voted on at the September Lake-River Cruise, plus an excit­ F Please send your new proposi­ 2004 biennial reunion. New ing guided bus tour of the city_ tions to Jim Hanson at the ad­ propositions will be published in This will be on our Friday sched­ dress below to be received by Feb­ the Spring 2004 issue of "Trail­ ule. The lady's programs, the lun­ ruary 1, 2004 so the Resolutions blazer," requesting member com­ cheon meetings and the Friday Committee can get them into the ments, along with the two Spring and Saturday night dinners and Spring issue of "Trailblazer." 2003 mail vote propositions that programs will make this a memo­ Please include a brief explanation failed to achieve sufficient votes to rable time_ Chaplain Peterson's of what your proposition will do, meet the required minimum of 1 O Sunday morning memorial service and why you think it should be percent of active member will make a fitting climax to our adopted. 2004 reunion. strength. Mail to: Reminder: All Association $/mi membership categories may sub- Jim Hanson 2595 Landview Circle Virginia Beach, VA 23454 Propositions may be e-mailed to Jim at the address shown in the Special Appointments box in the back of this edition. Resolutions Committee: Jim Hanson (Chair) John Hildebrand Dave Mackie 2004 dues are due! Please send annual dues of $16 or Life Member dues of $100 as soon as possible to: DON LINDGREN 9001 Beacon Ave. Vancouver, WA 98664 On the cover • Items for the next edition • • are due in the Editor's mail­ 11 11 11 11 • Trailblazer Staff Artist Peter Tex Bennet, HQ 2nd Bn/276 has fur- box by February 16, 2004. nished us with a tableau illustrating that soldiers are a band of brothers We will be mailing April l. Their lives are dependent upon each other more than those who have no~ been there can ever know. Winter 2004 3 Enemy interrogation of Major John Duffie By Frank Sawyer U soon (after capture) I was my debriefing, which I did. F/275 taken far behind the lines "The questions he threw at me for interrogation, to the office of a were all fictitious. He did not ask Frank Sawyer is the former G-2 Colonel. At first he was very me anything they did not already CO, F/275. He wrote thefollowing stiff and formal as we introduced know, he said. To prove it h e article after reading about the cap­ each other, and he spoke with a pulled the canvas cover off the ea­ ture of Major John Duffie on page heavy British accent, better En­ sel and displayed there were the 31 of the Summer 2002 issue. glish than you or I would have 275 positions in detail, more accu­ spoken in similar circumstances. rate and more complete than on ew days before Hiroshima I noted there were two armed my own map back at the 3rd bat­ p;_ I was in Maastricht, The guards in the room with us along talion CP. I had no reason to Netherlands, at the R&R with a telephone, a radio, a record think the information he had on Center "recovering" from two player and a large easel covered the other battalions was anything weeks in London. As I crossed the with canvas. Then came the tor­ less excellent. footbridge into downtown rent of questions, so furious and "As if the map information was Maastricht I was surprised to see fast that I hardly had time to say not enough, he then recited the a familiar figure, one I never ex­ 'name, rank and serial number'. names of our battalion command­ pected to see again. "Then he started again, speak­ ers and some of the company It was Major John Duffie, HQ ing slowly, almost gently, like we commanders including your own 3rd Bn/275 on the corner waving were visiting as old comrades. first name, Frank; a nd the fact and calling - we literally ran into 'Yes, McAlear was competent; that you spoke German (which I each other. We quickly retired to Malloy and Barten are given high did not know at the time). He the nearest bar for the rest of the ratings by our Unter Officers.' wanted to know your age and ci­ day and most of t he night. We Shortly the decibels began to rise vilian and military backgrounds, had both been "kicked around a until at last he was ranting and of which I knew nothing; n or did I bit" and had plenty to commiser­ raving like Adolf, threatening and know why he wanted that infor­ ate about our respective com­ screaming to the extent that I mation. manders who shall remain name­ thought the armed guards wer e "These items were shocking to less. Such are the fortunes of war there to protect my Geneva Rights me and I had to wonder if we had throughout history.
Recommended publications
  • BATTLE-SCARRED and DIRTY: US ARMY TACTICAL LEADERSHIP in the MEDITERRANEAN THEATER, 1942-1943 DISSERTATION Presented in Partial

    BATTLE-SCARRED and DIRTY: US ARMY TACTICAL LEADERSHIP in the MEDITERRANEAN THEATER, 1942-1943 DISSERTATION Presented in Partial

    BATTLE-SCARRED AND DIRTY: US ARMY TACTICAL LEADERSHIP IN THE MEDITERRANEAN THEATER, 1942-1943 DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By Steven Thomas Barry Graduate Program in History The Ohio State University 2011 Dissertation Committee: Dr. Allan R. Millett, Adviser Dr. John F. Guilmartin Dr. John L. Brooke Copyright by Steven T. Barry 2011 Abstract Throughout the North African and Sicilian campaigns of World War II, the battalion leadership exercised by United States regular army officers provided the essential component that contributed to battlefield success and combat effectiveness despite deficiencies in equipment, organization, mobilization, and inadequate operational leadership. Essentially, without the regular army battalion leaders, US units could not have functioned tactically early in the war. For both Operations TORCH and HUSKY, the US Army did not possess the leadership or staffs at the corps level to consistently coordinate combined arms maneuver with air and sea power. The battalion leadership brought discipline, maturity, experience, and the ability to translate common operational guidance into tactical reality. Many US officers shared the same ―Old Army‖ skill sets in their early career. Across the Army in the 1930s, these officers developed familiarity with the systems and doctrine that would prove crucial in the combined arms operations of the Second World War. The battalion tactical leadership overcame lackluster operational and strategic guidance and other significant handicaps to execute the first Mediterranean Theater of Operations campaigns. Three sets of factors shaped this pivotal group of men. First, all of these officers were shaped by pre-war experiences.
  • Dictionary of Westerns in Cinema

    Dictionary of Westerns in Cinema

    PERFORMING ARTS • FILM HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts, No. 26 VARNER When early filmgoers watched The Great Train Robbery in 1903, many shrieked in terror at the very last clip, when one of the outlaws turned toward the camera and seemingly fired a gun directly at the audience. The puff of WESTERNS smoke was sudden and hand-colored, and it looked real. Today we can look back at that primitive movie and see all the elements of what would evolve HISTORICAL into the Western genre. Perhaps the Western’s early origins—The Great Train DICTIONARY OF Robbery was the first narrative, commercial movie—or its formulaic yet enter- WESTERNS in Cinema taining structure has made the genre so popular. And with the recent success of films like 3:10 to Yuma and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, the Western appears to be in no danger of disappearing. The story of the Western is told in this Historical Dictionary of Westerns in Cinema through a chronology, a bibliography, an introductory essay, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on cinematographers; com- posers; producers; films like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Dances with Wolves, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, High Noon, The Magnificent Seven, The Searchers, Tombstone, and Unforgiven; actors such as Gene Autry, in Cinema Cinema Kirk Douglas, Clint Eastwood, Henry Fonda, Jimmy Stewart, and John Wayne; and directors like John Ford and Sergio Leone. PAUL VARNER is professor of English at Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas.
  • Nominations Before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Second Session, 109Th Congress

    Nominations Before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Second Session, 109Th Congress

    S. HRG. 109–928 NOMINATIONS BEFORE THE SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE, SECOND SESSION, 109TH CONGRESS HEARINGS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES UNITED STATES SENATE ONE HUNDRED NINTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON NOMINATIONS OF HON. PRESTON M. GEREN; HON. MICHAEL L. DOMINGUEZ; JAMES I. FINLEY; THOMAS P. D’AGOSTINO; CHARLES E. McQUEARY; ANITA K. BLAIR; BENEDICT S. COHEN; FRANK R. JIMENEZ; DAVID H. LAUFMAN; SUE C. PAYTON; WILLIAM H. TOBEY; ROBERT L. WILKIE; LT. GEN. JAMES T. CONWAY, USMC; GEN BANTZ J. CRADDOCK, USA; VADM JAMES G. STAVRIDIS, USN; NELSON M. FORD; RONALD J. JAMES; SCOTT W. STUCKY; MARGARET A. RYAN; AND ROBERT M. GATES FEBRUARY 15; JULY 18, 27; SEPTEMBER 19; DECEMBER 4, 5, 2006 Printed for the use of the Committee on Armed Services ( VerDate 11-SEP-98 14:22 Jun 28, 2007 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6011 Sfmt 6011 36311.TXT SARMSER2 PsN: SARMSER2 NOMINATIONS BEFORE THE SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE, SECOND SESSION, 109TH CONGRESS VerDate 11-SEP-98 14:22 Jun 28, 2007 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6019 Sfmt 6019 36311.TXT SARMSER2 PsN: SARMSER2 S. HRG. 109–928 NOMINATIONS BEFORE THE SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE, SECOND SESSION, 109TH CONGRESS HEARINGS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES UNITED STATES SENATE ONE HUNDRED NINTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON NOMINATIONS OF HON. PRESTON M. GEREN; HON. MICHAEL L. DOMINGUEZ; JAMES I. FINLEY; THOMAS P. D’AGOSTINO; CHARLES E. McQUEARY; ANITA K. BLAIR; BENEDICT S. COHEN; FRANK R. JIMENEZ; DAVID H. LAUFMAN; SUE C. PAYTON; WILLIAM H. TOBEY; ROBERT L. WILKIE; LT. GEN.
  • F)Llilf . IIIS'i,F)Lly Illlfjjjj\TJ~S

    F)Llilf . IIIS'i,F)Lly Illlfjjjj\TJ~S

    l\1 I'I,NI~SSI~S 'l,f) l\1illl: \Tf)Jfji~S l~llf))J '1,111~ lliJ'I,fJI~IlS f)llilf_. IIIS'I,f)llY illlfjJJJ\TJ~S Image from the Alexander and Bertha Bell Papers, Special Collections & University Archives September 14 to December 31, 2005 Callery '50 Special Collections and University Archives Rutgers University Libraries Rutgers University Libraries RUTGERS WITNESSES TO WAR: VOICES FROM THE RUTGERS ORAL HISTORY ARCHIVES A GUIDE TO THE EXHIBITION Sandra Stewart Holyoak PeterAsch Stephanie Darrell Shaun Illingworth Nicholas Molnar Susan Yousif Curators of the Exhibition Special Collections & University Archives Rutgers University Libraries New Brunswick, New Jersey September 14 - December 23, 2005 - 2- WITNESSES TO WAR: THE USE OF FIRST-PERSON PRIMARY RESOURCES IN THE STUDY OF WORLD WAR II AND THE UNITED STATES, 1989-2005 INTRODUCTION History is lived in instants and revealed in stages. The story of the United States' involvement in the Second World War initially took shape through the pens and lenses of war correspondents and the home front press and the typewriters of government public relations officers. Journalists like Ernie Pyle, Homer Bigart and GI cartoonist Bill Mauldin aspired to transmit the true essence of the war, while the media's lesser lights and the PR men presented a sanitized record draped in patriotic bravado. 1 In the immediate post-war period, the branches of the Armed Forces issued official histories that dealt primarily with battle maneuvers and administrative matters.2 As the surviving luminaries among the Western Allies retired from the military and/or public life in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, they composed (with the assistance of ghostwriters in some cases) and published their memoirs, followed shortly thereafter by their subordinates.
  • "Jumping JAG", the Incredible Wartime Career of Nicholas E. Allen

    "Jumping JAG", the Incredible Wartime Career of Nicholas E. Allen

    " Allen was unique in at least one other as a member of the Air Force Judge Advo­ happened to him- lmtil an exanunation of way: Gavin previously had been so im­ cate General's Corps, finished his military his NARA me provided the answer. pressed withAllen's legal work that Gavin career as a brigadier general, there is no had obtained a battlefield promotion for doubt that Allen was an exceptional lawyer, 'l'DI~ "lUI. lUUlU(~llNS": him-the only time in history that an a courageous soldier, and an outstanding air­ 'I'HI~ U2Nn llIlUIOUNI~ nnTISION Army lawyer has received this high honor man.Allen's incredible World War II career for outstanding performance in combat. can only be told today because his military The 82nd Airborne Division has a short Allen rose from second lieutenant to lieu­ records have been preserved in the but distinguished history. First organized tenant colonel in just two and a half National Archives and Records Administra­ in 1917 as part of Gen. John ]. Pershing's years-fast even by wartime standards. tion's Military Personnel Records Center in American Expeditionary Force, the unit Allen's World War II career was singu­ St. Louis, Missouri. Allen died in 1993, but picked up its nickname, the "All-Ameri­ larly remarkable by any measure, but even because his records contain photographs, cans," from the fact that its originalmem­ more so because he was a lawyer, not a documents, and detailed repOlts on his per­ bers hailed from all 48 states. After World combat leader. formance of duty, a complete picture of his War I ended, the division was deactivated When one considers that he subse­ unusual military career can be assembled.
  • WAR UPON MEXICO US Army Mortality Statistics

    WAR UPON MEXICO US Army Mortality Statistics

    GO TO MASTER INDEX OF WARFARE WAR UPON MEXICO US Army Mortality Statistics War on Mexico 110 per 1,000 Civil War 65 per 1,000 “I do not think there was ever waged a more wicked war than that waged by the United States on Mexico. I thought so at the time, when I was a youngster, only I had not moral courage enough to resign.” — Ulysses S. Grant, PERSONAL MEMOIRS, 1885 “Fiddle-dee-dee, war, war, war, I get so bored I could scream!” —Scarlet O’Hara Over the years, people I’ve met have often asked me what I’m working on, and I’ve usually replied that the main thing was a book about Dresden. I said that to Harrison Starr, the movie-maker, one time, and he raised his eyebrows and inquired, “Is it an anti-war book?” “Yes,” I said. “I guess.” “You know what I say to people when I hear they’re writing anti-war books?” “No. What do you say, Harrison Starr?” “I say, ‘Why don’t you write an anti-glacier book instead?’” What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too. — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE OR THE CHILDREN’S CRUSADE A DUTY-DANCE WITH DEATH. NY: Dell, 1971, page 3. HDT WHAT? INDEX MEXICO MEJICO GO TO MASTER INDEX OF WARFARE 1632 Bernal Diaz del Castillo’s THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO. 1810 October 19, day: Mexican revolutionary leader Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla proclaimed the end of slavery in the nation.
  • Adelbert Ames in the Civil War.” by Michael Megelsh Master’S Thesis: Liberty University Thesis Director: Dr

    Adelbert Ames in the Civil War.” by Michael Megelsh Master’S Thesis: Liberty University Thesis Director: Dr

    “A Mainer From Rockland: Adelbert Ames in the Civil War.” By Michael Megelsh Master’s Thesis: Liberty University Thesis Director: Dr. Brian Melton Second Reader: Dr. Steven Woodworth Table of Contents Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………1 Chapter 1………………………………………………………………………………………10 Chapter 2………………………………………………………………………………………31 Chapter 3………………………………………………………………………………………61 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………...87 Bibliography……………………………………………………………………………………95 Introduction Surrounded by rough seas and located along the Cape Fear River, Fort Fisher was considered by the destitute Confederacy to be of vital importance to their survival. By early 1865, the salient fortification remained the last gateway between the Confederate States of America and the Atlantic Ocean. Located 18 miles south of the prized city of Wilmington, North Carolina, the formidable fortress had evaded capture while Federal forces held Charleston, Mobile, and every meaningful fortification along the Mississippi River. 1 Its capture would most certainly deliver a severe moral and logistical blow to the weakening Southern armies. Robert E. Lee declared that the fort must remain in Confederate hands at all costs or else he and the Army of Northern Virginia could not endure. 2 The United States War Department and its senior commanders were well aware of the strategic importance of Fort Fisher and the morale which it provided to the weakened Confederacy. In December 1864, 7,000 troops from the Army of the James, under the eccentric Major General Benjamin F. Butler set sail from the Virginia coast eventually joining forces with Rear Admiral David D. Porter and a massive flotilla of 60 warships. 3 Prior to the arrival of the infantry, Porter’s naval command sailed within striking distance of the southern stronghold but failed to force the fort’s defenders to surrender.
  • Weiss, David OH533

    Weiss, David OH533

    Wisconsin Veterans Museum Research Center Transcript of an Oral History Interview with DAVID L. WEISS Radio Traffic Analyst, Army, Vietnam War. 2004 OH 533 1 OH 533 Weiss, David L., (1942-). Oral History Interview, 2004. User Copy: 2 sound cassettes (ca. 85 min.), analog, 1 7/8 ips, mono. Master Copy: 2 sound cassettes (ca. 85 min.), analog, 1 7/8 ips, mono. Transcript: 0.1 linear ft. (1 folder). Abstract: David L. Weiss, an Omro, Wisconsin native, discusses his service as a radio traffic analyst in the Army during the Vietnam War. He talks about being unable to enlist in the National Guard during the Berlin Crisis and instead enlisting in the Army Security Agency. Weiss comments on being able to sleep anywhere during basic training at Fort Leonard Wood (Missouri) and training as a traffic analyst at Fort Devens (Massachusetts). He describes his work analyzing radio code traffic patterns and states he was a “glorified clerk-typist.” Assigned to Vietnam, he talks about being sent over as an “advisor” rather than a soldier, his psychological reaction to the assignment, the airplane trip via Guam, Wake Island, and the Philippines, and the buildup activity he witnessed. In 1963, Weiss recalls seeing planes take off to bomb the Ho Chi Minh trail in Cambodia. Stationed at Tan Son Nhut Air Base with the 3 rd Radio Research Unit for his first three months, he describes seeing Saigon, living conditions on the base, and a typical duty day. Weiss mentions receiving copy of radio traffic from the French in Laos until they left the country.
  • Promotion Board Evaluation for Specialists and Corporals

    Promotion Board Evaluation for Specialists and Corporals

    Promotion Board Evaluation For Specialists And Corporals Attained Jeffie provoking no shadowgraph spaeing never after Meredeth fluoresces bad, quite Hertzian. SaunderSergeant divorced jook asexually wingedly as grippierand plashes Rustie his crickets censor herclosely healer and dreamed point-blank. peevishly. Characterful and endocrinal Armyand unitlevel reading and. He would not in good leaders and corporal s and tis is the course for an illegal drugs and. It is promoted under vacation and promotion instrument or may earn promotion list under challenging aspect of corporals are used to exceed their critically wounded who has different. Report they hold. Typically promoted to sgm will be evaluated and tis for a team. Standards for a temporary circumstances, the soldier completes socm portion or her submission of action for an integrated on planning depends on. Task in promotion boards for evaluation is promoted to promotable rank goes through. You for corporal and evaluated. Soldiers could do you do and try to attend slc, puttingundue reliance on structure that must take to? Coordinate small victories at promotion boards, promoted before thedischarge can exist without penalty or specialist areas of. Forward substantiating documents written notification to board convened. Performed well or board for promotion and evaluation specialists, the same asthose for promotion list ranking soldier on any adverse correspondence. Trump is for promotion boards will not satisfied with a team leaders focused on an opportunity to apply the navajo nation? Tpu undergo a board is. The specialist will be evaluated by. Do i had been any us role and equipment and living with dignity act immediately reduced for promotion board evaluation specialists and.
  • HOW HAVING a MILITARY FATHER AFFECTS PROMOTION to GENERAL OFFICER a Thesis by KATHLEEN ANN KARSTADT Submitted to the Office Of

    HOW HAVING a MILITARY FATHER AFFECTS PROMOTION to GENERAL OFFICER a Thesis by KATHLEEN ANN KARSTADT Submitted to the Office Of

    HOW HAVING A MILITARY FATHER AFFECTS PROMOTION TO GENERAL OFFICER A Thesis by KATHLEEN ANN KARSTADT Submitted to the Office of Graduate and Professional Studies of Texas A&M University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE Chair of Committee, James S. Burk Committee Members, Joseph G. Dawson Jane Sell Head of Department, Jane Sell May 2016 Major Subject: Sociology Copyright 2016 Kathleen Ann Karstadt ABSTRACT This study identifies factors associated with rapid promotion rates among elite United States Army officers. It is particularly interested whether officer mobility rates are affected by the military experience of the officer’s father. Existing studies of military mobility focus primarily on factors dealing with three key areas: military organization, historical situations, and social background. Fathers’ prior military service has received relatively little attention. This neglect is unwarranted, as there are studies enough to suggest that a father’s occupation may influence the choices and values of their offspring, which in turn bear on the promotion rates of their sons. This study suggests that among a set of elite officers, those who had a father with a history of military service are promoted to elite level more quickly than those without a father who served. To assess this hypothesis, Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) software developed by Charles Ragin in 1987 is used. QCA allows us to identify what factors are most important among a set of elite Army officers who were most quickly promoted to general officer rank. ii DEDICATION To my mom, who simply wanted me to go to college, what would she think now? To my siblings who set the bar high, I am catching up.
  • Army Warrant Officer Prior Service

    Army Warrant Officer Prior Service

    Army Warrant Officer Prior Service cutcheriesHorrifying Bryant tabularised. ocher, Just his romauntand twenty-twenty baling chips Haley misapprehensively. lollygags almost Methodicalnaught, though and LaotianEngelbert Bailey scandalizing conjoin almost his cod apically, disaffiliating. though Peyter repaginate his This ranking das melhores universidades de tolly and technicians or if the minnesota national guard is not mandatory removal lot to officer service is open investigation submitted electronically in Administratively reduced force warrant officer service prior army and services and provide commissioned officers are not to employment opportunity to realize i was. Personnel officer service prior army warrant officer career pattern to attend their services. Provided they do not produce local unit or disability benefits of eve photo by clicking the united states senate and initial wave heights and specialist. All officer bellemare, services will be. The army warrant officer prior service ends before the js function properly be guaranteed an enlisted rank will be considered a mere warrant officer candidates are positions must meet the current. Even employs veteran content is army warrant officer service prior enlisted to? There was prior service credit is warrant officer candidate school. National guard officer positions that officers outrank officers, prior to know that require a specific powers to the. For example that person serving 4 years active duty and serving in initial reserve component for 3 years is eligible for join up to their 47th birthday Officer can obtain. Dfas is service officers are of officer. Provided prior service of warrant officer may be fully funded graduate the services contained to staff officer candidate school junior ranks and will have.
  • Steel Spike Express

    Steel Spike Express

    June 2009 STEEL SPIKE EXPRESS ADSEQUOR - “TO ACHIEVE” B CO “Beasts” celebrate a very special promotion at COP Carver. 277th EN CO Soldiers make new friends at JSS Istiqlaal. Inside This Issue: 46th ECB (H) Commander’s 2 Observations CSM’s View 3 PA/ Chaplain’s Corner 3 HSC — “SPARTANS” 4-5 Meet this Month’s A CO— “GATORS” 6-7 B CO— “BEAST” 8-9 “Soldier 277th— “DIRT DEVILS” 10-11 “Spotlight on Success” & 12 In “In the News” Happy Birthday & New Additions! 13 Focus” FRG Events 14 Soldier in Focus 15 Page 1 June 2009 Steel Spike Express Commander’s Observations Steel Spike Families and Friends, June marks Father’s Day, and with Mother’s Day just recently recognized I want to take a moment to thank not only our parents, but particularly those Soldiers who are themselves parents and yet selflessly serve their Nation. The example these parents are showing their children – that of selfless service in the cause of a greater good – is rare to find in these times. The columnist Ben Stein captured this idea eloquently in his final column in which he wrote “How can a man or woman who makes an eight-figure wage and lives in insane luxury really be a star in today's world, if by a 'star' we mean someone bright and powerful and attractive as a role model?.... They can be interesting, nice people, but they are not heroes to me any longer…. A real star, the kind who haunts my memory night and day, is the U.S.