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Command Changes in Five Units U.-z FORT LEONARD WOOD "Follow the Guidon" uion VOL. 1 No. 18 FORT LEONARD WOOD, MO. 65473 October 28, 1966 COMMAND CHANGES1_-----1 1~-r=1--- _ iP- INFIVE UNITS The Nation's largest Army Training Center (see story this page) also seems to have the largest number of command changes this Ft. Wood Noe week. Changes involve the U. S. Army Reception Station, 1st Engineer Training Brigade, the Comptroller, the 5th Engineer Battalion (Combat) and Headquarters, Special Troops. Largest USAT At a ceremony Saturday morning, Lieutenant Colonel Dan C. Kingman, commanding officer of the U.S. Army Reception Station Ft. Leonard Wood has held its since June 24, 1964, was awarded share of titles in the past-- Sauls, formerly Ft. Wood Comp- the Army Commendation Medal troller. LTC Rhodes is departing "Largest Engineer Training Cen- for his leadership during a period ter in the World" and "Largest U.S. for an assignment in Paris, when the processing station grew France. In a farewell message to Army Training Center in the Mid- to support the largest number of west"--but none is quite as imn- his officers and top NCOs he also Army inductees handled at any pointed up the rapid growth of Ft. pressive as its present distinction: Army installation. He, according Wood as an Army training center. NATION'S LARGEST U.S. ARMY to the citation, integrated proces- TRAINING CENTER. "When I came to this command," sing at the Reception Station which eight guidons With an average daily trainee he said, "there were had been previously conducted by in the ceremony. Today, there are strength of 24,700, the Missouri basic combat training units. This that number." Rhodes Military Installation is the largest threefold was accomplished without in- went on to reiterate the support of the 16 U.S. Army Training creasing the receptees length of Centers where basic combat, ad- that the combat engineer soldier stay at the Reception Station. Ft. is providing in the world-wide vanced individual, and combat sup- Wood now processes 25 per cent port training are taught, the United commitments of the Army. MANIA invades Ft. Leonard Wood. Not to be outdone is of all the men entering the Army Lieutenant Colonel Charles I. States Continental Army Command MASCOT Company. They've taken under wing a and LTC Kingman was cited for (USCONARC) announced last week. the 208th Military Police McGinnis replaced Sauls as Comp- 4 after an handling this increase while con- On any given day USCONARC will four-month-old 14-pound bobcat. Captured at range troller on Monday. He was with a skunk, the wild bobcat is quickly adapting to currently "the quality of the fully formerly the commanding officer have more than 215,000 men in encounter in the stockade. Officially the cat has become the processed receptee was vastly im- on post, various stages of training during its new home of the largest TOE unit Stockade workyard mascot. Sergeant Jesse Cole, her handler, was proved." Engineer Battalion (Com- the 1967 fiscal year. Approxi- the 5th out she is the ONLY female allowed inside the stock- The headline for a GUIDON story a position he held since mately 700,000 men will pass quick to point bat) pride and joy, vies for honors as the most on Aug. 5 read "Extra Receptees As LTC Sauls traded his through the training centers. ade area. Bobby, the MPs February. unique mascot on post, according to reliable MP sources. at FLW." As one USARESTA general staff insignia back to his The other 15 centers and their officer said at' Kingman's retire- average daily trainee strength are ment ceremony. "There are always (continued on page 10) Ft. Polk, La., 20,800; Ft. Jackson, extra receptees at FLW, and there S.C., 19,900; Ft. Knox, Ky., 19,400; is never any difficulty in receiving Ft. Dix, N.J., 19,000; Ft. Ord, Recent Fund Drive Successful these men into the Army efficiently Calif., 18,800; Ft. Benning, Ga., HQ 5TH CST BDE. Monday- Community Chest or United Fund. and insuring that their first con- 14,700; Ft. Grodon, Ga., 14,400; Colonel Hugh G. Martin announced Contributions to support the tact with the military is favorable." iiii~i;:;: Ft. Lewis, Wash., 13,400; Ft. today that the 1966 Community Ser- Waynesville USO, Boy and Girl Presently no successor to LTC Bragg, N.C., 12,100; Ft. Campbell, vices Fund Drive has been Scouts, and serviceman's centers Kingman has been designated, and Ky., 12,100; Ft. Bliss, Tex., successful. in Columbia and Springfield were Captain Jack Rickman, executive 11,900; Ft. Sill, Okla., 7,300; Ft. both on- The Drive, which ran from Aug. s o 1 i c i t e d from officer will serve as acting com- Sam Houston, Tex., 6,300; Ft. and off-post. mander. The colonel plans to spend Huachuca, Ariz., 2,800; and Ft. 31 to Oct. 15, is one of three autho- rized COL Martin, this year's drive his retirement in Goulds, Fla., McClellan, Ala., 1,300. fund drives at Ft. Wood and is similar to the civilian chairman, states that all support where he will devote timetofishing has been gratifying and very much and learning to keep a canoe afloat appreciated. Individual thanks, and right side up. said the colonel, always in- In the 1st Engineer TrainingBri- advertently omit someone, and he gade on Monday afternoon, Lieu- THIS WEEK in the HEADLINES post wishes to publicly thank the tenant Colonel Howard D, Rhodes and all individuals who sparked the turned over the Brigade colors KANSAS CITY, Kan., Friday--According to Vice President Hubert drive's success. to Lieutenant Colonel Marshall N. Humphrey, food is a secret U.S. weapon. "Food is a vital ip ipgro~ri,d Third BCT Brigade contributed of social stability and peaceful change," he commented. "Nations the highest amount per capita to whose people we were helping with food and other form, of aid the campaign, according to COL 10 or 20 years ago now are among our best dollar customers for Bus Accident Martin, and he said that special farm products. And there is good reason to believe that other appreciation should go to the U.S. nations will move from the aid category to the commercial trade Army Reception Station which Injuries Minor category in a very short time." greatly improved its participation 89th Congress adjourns after Fifteen Army trainees and a WASHINGTON, D.C., Saturday--The over the last year and contributed is termed a record session. For the President it meant a driver escaped serious injury at what the highest total amount in 1966. batting average of better than .900 on the bills that he sent to 5:20 a.m. Oct. 21 when a Conti- Capital Hill. States one political observer, "It was a Congress nental Trailways bus overturned that looked after both guns and butter. It took care of GIs, house- on Ft. Leonard Wood Route 1 less wives, dogs and cats, hungry children, teachers and Standard Time than a mile inside of the south slum dwellers." gate to the post. SAIGON, Sunday--The U.S. commander in Vietnam, General William Returns Sunday All 15 passengers and the driver C. Westmoreland, says the war is "far from over" and he will Who says there cannot be 25 were taken to General Leonard need more troops in the days ahead. As for the men now in hours in a day? There will be Wood Army Hospital on the post RVN, "The troops are the finest ever fielded; they understand Sunday as Ft. Leonard Wood and for treatment of bruises and la- the conflict and appreciate their complex role as both fighters other communities on daylight cerations. No fractures or serious and builders." saving time return to Central injuries were reported. MANILA, Monday--Seven nations allied in the Vietnamese conflict Standard Time at 2 a.m. Elmer Raney of the Continental begin a "historic" two-day summit meeting "as the council that Residents will regain the hour Trailways firm said the bus had promotes peace instead of war." they lost April 24 at the beginning been chartered to transfer the men, JAKARTA, Tuesday--Indonesia's second most powerful man, of the daylight saving time period. members of the 4th Battalion of the Subandrio, is sentenced to death on a charge of helping the Clocks should be turned BACK one 3d Brigade who had graduated from hour. In other words, when it's basic training Oct. 20, to Redstone Communist Party coup that failed last year. For nine years he was IS THIS RIGHT? The comman- right-hand man to President two o'clock for the first time Arsenal, Ala., for advanced in- the country's foreign minister and ding officer of the Reception Sukarno. Sunday morning, it will actually be dividual training. Station at attention behind a MANILA, Wednesday--The Allies in Vietnam resolve to pursue 1 a.m. for the second time. Driver of the vehicle was Don roster plate? It actually did aggression is ended" but offer to with- Just remember the time change. Scott, St. Charles, Ill, Cause of the war there "until the happen. See page 10 for more You wouldn't want to be an hour the accident was not immediately draw outside military forces within six months as North Vietnam of picture. pulls out of the South and violence ebbs. early for work Monday. determined. GUIDON October 28, 1966 Eagles Have Edge on Spirit It may have been a swooping with about 900 of them swearing, field.
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