a result of the change, in which case Change 6-yr. Obligation n,1111 they will have the opportunity to join 1 thousands of others serving without pay, The Reserve obligation of all six-year but earning retirement and retention obligated reservists not assigned to Re­ points and keeping themselves in line serve Component Troop Program units, for promotion and service in case of an has been modified to increase the period l111ni1I of Ready Reserve service to a combined emergency. total of 5 years active duty and satis­ On the following pages are two ar­ April-May 1958 Volume IV, No. 4 factory Ready Reserve service. ticles which you will wish to give care­ Personnel who have completed two ful consideration. One is the official Published monthly at Washington, D. C., by years on active duty will serve either the Chief, U. S. Army Reserve and ROTC Army Fact Sheet announcing the reor­ 2 years in a unit and 2 years in the Affairs, Department of the Army. Opinions ganization, and the other is an ex­ Standby, or if they are not assigned expressed herein are not necessarily official Department of the Army policy. Material planation of why the change is being to a unit, must serve 3 years in the contained herein is not to be construed as made, by Major General Ralph A. Ready Reserve hefore becoming eligible an official directive. nor as superseding offi­ for transfer to the Standby Reserve for cial directives. Publication authorized by Palladino, Chief of Army Reserve and AR 140-370 dated 30 August 1956. Printing ROTC Affairs. their last year of obligated service. approved by the Director of the Bureau of This applies only to inductees, RA the Budget 22 July 1955. Distributed by enlistees and Reservists ordered to ac­ Army and Overseas commanders to USAR tive duty for two years. Those individ­ personnel actively participating in the "ROA does not and cannot training program. Correspondence relating uals who are assigned to a control group to circulation should be addressed to the in good conscience demand rather than a unit will be required to headquarters shown in the upper left hand the status quo. We favor perform one 15-day tour of active duly corner of the back cover. strengthening the Reserve Articles on subjects of general interest to for training, preferably during their Reserve personnel not on active duty are Forces, modernizing the units, second year in the Rea,dy Reserve. providing them both training invited. Direct communication is authorized Personnel assigned to a unit, and to: Editor, Army Reservist, USAR & and e q u i o n~ e n t to meet later reassigned to a control group, must ROTC, D/A, Washington 25, D. C. Unless rapidly changing missions and otherwise indicated, material contained in complete a total of five years combined the continued requirements this publication may be reproduced as de­ AD and Ready Reserve service. sired. All photographs, unless otherwise and recognition of the Reserve credited, are official U. S. Army Photo­ s:-raphs. as a vital component or ele­ ment in our national security Major General Ralph A. Palladino structure." The Department of Defense has re­ Chief, U. S. Army Reserve & Col. John T. Carlton, quested Selective Service to provide ROTC Affairs Executive Director, ROA Armed Forces Jnduction Stations with 31 March 1958 13,000 men during May 1958 for assign­ Lieutenant Colonel Walter A. Pennino ment to the Army. Chief, Information Office, U. S. AR & ROTC Affairs Major F. S. Otis, lnf..USAR Editor Maj. Wm. Kurylchek, CAMG-USAR Associate Editor Eleanor Duffer Art Director

You Knew It Was Coming! No one who has been active in the Army Reserve program was caught by surprise by the announcement of the reorganization. When the active Army reorganization program became effec­ tive, it was as certain as anything can be that the same changes would have to be made in the Reserve components. The only question was when. Now that question has been answered. It should be remembered that this is not a reduction in personnel strength. It is a reduction in units, a realignment ZI Army deputy commanders for Reserve affairs met with CONARC leaders at Fort of units to match the Pentomic Division Monroe recently to discuss organization and functions of the US Army Corps (Reserve). concept, and an alignment of support left to right, first row: Lt. Gen. E. T. Williams, Deputy Commanding General, CONARC; units to more closely fit into the national Gen. W. G. Wyman, Commanding General, CONARC; Lt. Gen. Ridgely Gaither, Deputy defense plans. Commanding General for Reserve Forces; Maj. Gen. Crump Garvin, Deputy Commanding It is not anticipated that anyone will General for Reserve Forces, Second Army. Second row: Maj. Gen. Raymond Bell, Com­ be denied an opportunity to continue to manding General, II Army Corps (Reserve); Maj. Gen. Guy Meloy, Deputy Commanding earn retirement points as a result of the General for Reserve Forces, Fourth Army; Maj. Gen. William Nutter, Deputy Commanding change, or to advance themselves pro­ General for Reserve Forces, Fifth Army; Maj. Gen. John W. Harmony, Commanding fessionally in the Army Reserve pro­ General, XV Army Corps (Reserve). Third row: Maj. Gen. R. A. Green, Mobilization gram. Quite possibly some personnel Designee to CONARC; Maj. Gen. J. R. Pierce, Deputy Commanding General for Reserve will be unable to find a drill pay slot as Forces, Second Army; Maj. Gen. Carl Fritsche, C/S, Hq" Fifth Army.

2 The Army Reservist-April-May 1958 Pentomic-- " .. the Active Army has completed the conversion to the Pentomic concept, and this reorganization must now be extended to the Reserve components."

The Army plans a reorganiza­ tion of its reserve components to Proposed Army Reserve Troop Structure modernize them in the light of 6 Infantry Divisions, composed of 462 ·company-size units changing concepts of warfare and 17 Division Training Commands, composed of 1462 company- the development of new weapons size units systems. This reorganization is the 2 Maneuver Area Commands, includes 2 company-size units result of long and careful study by Non-divisional structure composed of 2376 company-size units the Army Staff and is based upon Present (Actual): 5435 Proposed: 4300 Difference: 1135 directives to make the reserve com­ (Authorized) : 7320 ponent structure responsive to joint plans and national policy.

Objectives The Question is- The reorganization is planned to ac­ complish these three objectives: I. Conversion of reserve com­ WHY? ponent combat divisions to the pen­ by tomic type division which has al­ Major General Ralph A. Palladino ready been acompli~hed in the Ac­ tive Army. Chief, Army Reserve & ROTC Affairs 2. Adjustment of the reserve The Reserve Component Troop Basis reorganization, which will re­ component structure so that unit sult in a reduction in the number of units in the program, is quite strength and readiness goals estab­ lished by the planned mobilization naturally being greeted by the question: "Why"? All personnel in the schedule may be attained within Reserve wish to know three things as soon as possible. First, is their drill strengths authorized the Army. own unit being dropped; second, if it is, what happens to them; and 3. Reduction in the size of the third, why is this reorganization taking place. reserve component troop list to a As yet no one has all the ------­ number of units which, with units of the Active Army, will meet the answers, but we can try to shed on this matter. Mr. McElroy said: some light on the matter. Let us "The basic question is one of how Army's mobilization requirements. large the Reserve components of the first look at the reason for the Army should be in order to augment the The Resultant Troop Basis change: active forces and to insure a maximum Upon completion of this reorganiza­ Over the past four years there of mobilization readiness. The troop tion, the Army reserve components will has been and there continues to be basis now being developed by the De­ consist of a total of 27 combat divisions, an evolution in weapons, in the con- partment of the Army is specifically de­ 21 in the Army National Guard and 6 cept of how war might be waged in signed to provide the Reserve forces re­ in the Army Reserve. In addition, there the future, in transportation and quired to support joint plans approved will be 6 division hea,dquarters in the communications, and in national by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and reached Army National Guard for supervision of policy. At the same time, the Soviet in accordance with basic national secur­ training and 17 Div. Trng. Cmds. in military strength has adopted new ity policy. Units planned for inclusion the Army Reserve specifically designed weapons and new techniques. in the Army Reserve troop basis, to- for training individuals. The reorgani­ The need for the change is an Army gether with the active forces in being, zation will result in a reduction of ap­ need, to respond to the evolutionary are those required to meet current proximately 25 percent in the number of changes of a dynamic period, to the end mobilization objectives. company-size units in the Army reserve that the Army continues to provide its "Units excess to requirements components. The units retained will be full contribution to national security. need to be eliminated from the Re­ those for which a requirement exists The new Reserve component troop basis serve forces troop basis if maximum under _joint plans. A priority system modernizes the Reserve components to support is to be given those units will be initiated whereby those units the pentomic organization and reduces actually required in the early phases with the earliest mobilization times re­ the size of the structure (o that required of mobilization. The resulting Re­ ceive preferential treatment in the as­ by national policy and joint plans. It serve forces structure will be further signment of personnel and equipment. concentrates resources in the Reserve strengthened by conversion to the forces so that these forces may attain smaller, highly mobile pentomic Plan for Reorganization the strength and trained readiness goals division with its appreciably greater required to respond to the instant needs firepower." To assure that to the greatest degree of war as it is most likely to occur. It should be remembered that the the esprit and mobilization readiness of Let me quote from a letter from the Army has converted to all Pentomic (Continued on Page 4) Secretary of Defense to the President (Continued on Page 4)

The Army Reservist-April-May 1958 3 that inactivation of a type unit m one tunity to continue their Reserve component would not result in activa­ affiliation, maintain their military Changes- tion of the same type in the other com­ 11roficie11cy, and continue to qualify ponent. for all benefits due Reservists such (Continued from Page 3) Balance has been retained in still an­ as promotion and accumulation of the reserve components are sustained other way. Army forces must on deploy­ retention and retirement points. throughout the transition, a period of ment be balanced with appropriate num­ It will probably be six months before about two years and six months is bers of combat units and support units. a final decision will be reached as to the planned to accomplish reorganization. The Army structure, of which this new units to be inactivated. It is a matter The first step will he to submit to reserve component structure is a part, that has to be worked out, in the case Army areas and to the States a ten­ is such a balanced force. of the Army Reserve, between the Com­ tative list of units included in the Existing Facilities manding General of the Continental revised troop basis for both the Army Command, the Commanders of Army National Guard and the Army After very careful study the Army the Zone of the Interior Armies, and the Reserve. The Army commanders stall has concluded that all existing ade­ Chief of Army Reserve and ROTC. Of and the State authorities will have quate armories and reserve centers will course, in the case of the National an opportunity to study the pro­ be required under the new troop basis Guard, the Governor of the State and posed new troop basis and thus de­ and additional construction will be re­ the National Guard Bureau will make velop plans for utilization of quired. the recommendations. After the final trained personnel, facilities and decision is made, another two years will equipment on hand. elapse before the plan will be com­ The plans developed by an Army com­ pletely implemented. In this period it mander and authorities of a given State is expected that all officers and enlisted will be returned to the Department of Why?- men will have ample opportunity to re­ the Army for analysis and review before arrange their assignments so that they (Continued from Page 3) a final distribution of units is made and can continue their service. before reorganization in an Army or a divisions. Now this change must take It is believed that this plan will make State is actually initiated. place in the Reserve components. lt is a significant contribution to the military hoped that the change will be completed readiness of the Nation. Time Schedule within two years and that by that time It is estimated that about six months modern weapons will be reaching the will be required for planning and co­ Reserve in sufficient number for train­ ordination with the Army commanders ing purposes. The change from our and State authorities. Following ap­ present divisions to Pentomic divisions 15,000 To ROTC Camps proval of the plans, a period of about will result in the same reduction of units Approximately 15,000 Army ROTC two years will be required to accomplish that has occurred in the active Army. advanced course students will report the actual change from the present or­ For instance, there will be fewer com­ to 14 camps on 21 June 1958 for their ganization to the new. panies, but they will be larger; an ex­ six weeks of summer training. ample, the Heavy Weapons companies Dual Status of National Guard become part of the Rifle companies. The camp training will supplement It is expected that there will be an instruction received by the students in Special consideration is necessary 253 colleges located in 48 states the with respect to the dual status of the over-all reduction of about twenty-five percent in the number of units. Prob­ District of Columbia, Alaska, P~erto Army National Guard. Under law no Rico and Hawaii. Upon completion of change may be made in organization, ably fifty-nine percent of the unit re­ duction that occurs in the Reserve com­ the advanced course, the ROTC cadets branch or distribution of units located will be eligible for appointment in the wholly within one State without the ap­ ponents will be in Division units, and the remaining forty-one percent in non­ Army Reserve or the Regular Army and proval of the governor. This provision for service in the active Army. of law safeguards those Army National divisional units. Guard units required for State missions It is planned that in those priority The camp site, type of camp and and assures the continuance of those units retained, the officer strength will estimated allendance for the 1958 ROTC National Guard units whose history is in be permiued to reach the full comple­ summer camp program follows: fact a part of the history of their State. ment. Officers might be assigned to one First U.S. Army unit and attached to a unit that is lo­ Fort Devens, Mass, General Mili­ Trained Personnel cated closer to their home, for training tary Science, 1,100 purposes. Every effort will he made in the Second U. S. Army The question arises: What hap­ reorganization to retain trained per­ Fort Belvoir, Va, Engr, 625; Fort pens to units and their personnel no sonnel. In this connection, enlisted Eustis, Va, TC, 325; QM, 225; Fort longer required in the new troop overstrength resulting from reas­ George G. Meade, Md. GMS, 1,100; basis? Of course, our first and Fort Knox, Ky, Armor, 250; GMS, 700 signment of personnel during re­ maximum effort will he to relocate organization will he authorized. Third U. S. Army Split companies are also authorized these office1·s and enlisted men to Fort Benning, Ga, GMS, 1,400; troop p1·ogram units where their both because of the larger com­ Fort Bragg, N. C. GMS, 1,400; Fort talents can best he used. In those panies of the pentomic division and Campbell, Ky, GMS, 1,300; Fort Gor­ cases where we are unable to ac­ to retain trained personnel. don, Ga, Sig, 700. commodate these people in the new Fourth U.S. Army Balanced Force troop program, we see no reason why these groups cannot continue to Fort Sill, Okla, FA, 900; Fort In the distribution of units in the new meet as training units and thus Hood, Tex. GMS, 1,300. ~tructure between the Army National maintain a high degree of unit in­ Fifth U.S. Army Guard and the Army Reserve, every tegrity. We will not, of course, he Fort Leonard Wood, Mo, Engr, effort has been made to preserve the able to retain such training units 650; Fort Riley, Kans, GMS, 1,400 balance of combat and support units on a drill pay status, hut this does Sixth U. S. Army now existing in these components so afford such nersonnel an oppor- Fort Lewis, Wash, GMS, 1,400.

4 The Army Reservist-April-May 1958 Unauthorized "Greens" New Reserve Chief at The Army has again cautioned that personnel may be spending money for unauthorized new Army Green uni. forms. Purchases made from sources CONARC is Gen. Powell other than the QM Clothing Sales Store must bear a warranty approved by the U. S. Army Uniform Quality Control Lt. Gen. Herbert Butler Powell was Office. recently appointed the new Deputy Uniforms that hear the following type Commanding Genera]· for Reserve Com· of label are not authorized: "We guarantee this garment at date ponents, U. S. Continental Army Com· of sale to conform to Army Regulations mand, Fort Monroe, Va. He succeeds and to be equal to or better than re­ Lt. Gen. Ridgely Gaither who was re· quired by specifications issued by the assigned Commander-in-Chief of the Quartermaster Corps, U. S. Army, in· Caribbean Command. eluding adherence to standards of color The three-star post was created in and color fastness 100% virgin wool 1956 by the Department of the Army to worsted, Registration Number ...... " place added emphasis on the Army Re· The prescribed label must incorporate serve program. The assignment includes the following: planning, inspection and active super· "This garment is warranted to meet vision of the Army Reserve structure. or exceeds the standards of specifica· General Powell's previous assignment lion (s) No ...... and was produced was at Fort Benning, Ga., as Command· under Certificate No ...... from basic ing General of the Infantry Center and material warranted by the manufacturer Commandant of the Infantry School. to be produced in accordance with same He enlisted in the Oregon National on the current certificate." Guard at the age of 16 and received his Army Reserve commission upon comple­ tion of ROTC at the University of Ore· gon in 1926, and was appointed to the On Ordering Uniforms Regular Army that same year. Members of the Army Reserve who As Chief of Staff of the 75th Infantry submit orders to the Philadelphia Quar· Division, prior to his appointment as termaster Depot for Army Green and Deputy G-1 of the First Army, General Tropical Worsted uniforms are advised Powell participated in the Ardennes, to refer to DA Supply Manual 10·1· Rhineland, and Central Europe cam· 8405 for selection of the correct tariff paigns and in the "Colmar Pocket" sizes, according to Cir 670-21. battle. In September 1950 he com· The Army Green uniform suits and mantled the 17th Infantry Regiment in separate coats and trousers are supplied Korea when it spearheaded the advance from stock without the black braid re· to the Manchurian border. It is reported quired for officer wear. This must be to be the only U. S. unit to reach the purchased in addition to the uniform, Yalu River. He was awarded the Dis· Bronze Star Medal with two Oak Leaf and suggested quantities are- tinguished Service Cross and the Purple Clusters, Air Medal, Silver Star, Army Trousers: Heart in Korea. He also wears the Commendation Ribbon, and the Czecho• 6 yds 1h" braid for senera! officers Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster, slovakian War Cross. 3 ycls 1V~" braid for officers and WOs. Coat: 1 yd 11h" braid for general officers 1 yd %" braid for officers and WOs Extension Course Champ

Planned procurement of the Army Completes 83 Courses Green uniform as announced in The Army Reservist for 1958 has been Is Captain Wallace C. Till of the earned a total of 1,579 credit hours changed. 304th Ordnance Battalion, Charleston, which gives him 526 points toward re• Funds for procurement of Army tirement. Green uniforms for issue in FY 1959 South Carolina, the extension course to other than RFA Six Months Trainees "Champion of the U. S. Army Reserve"? His Army record dates back to 1942, have been eliminated from the Reserve Captain Till's outstanding record of when he was appointed a first lieutenant Personnel, Army, Budget. TJ1e current the Ordnance courses completed is a in the Ordnance Corps directly from civilian life. He spent 17 months in plans provide for procurement of the grand total of 83. His scholastic record complete requirement for Army Green Oran, Algeria, North Africa and 15 is: 55 final grades of superior, 26 of months in Langres, France during World for issue to Reserve enlisted personnel excellent, and two of satisfactory. on Reserve Duty Training status in the War II. fall of 1959 (FY 1960). This plan He has taken all of the 40 series, Twelve days after he returned to the provided that all Army Reserve enlisted the 30 series, the 50 series, the Associate United States, he joined the Reserve, personnel will have an AG uniform in Ordnance Officers Advanced Course (9- being one of two "Charter" members their possession for the winter season 0·4) plus many separate subcourses of the 304th Ordnance Battalion, which of 1959·1960. which are not part of a series. He has was activated in 1947.

The Army Reservist-April-May 1958 13 CAMG Operations In Atomic Age Warfare

a. Military personnel throughout By Strom Thurmond the services must be indoctrinated in The following is extracted from an CAMG capabilities . .. article appearing in the January 1958 b. The operational nature of CAMG issue of Military Review. Brigadier Gen­ activities must be reflected throughout eral Thurmond holds a mobilization military doctrine .. . designation assignment as Deputy Chief, c. CAMG plans, units, and staff Civil Affairs/Military Government, Dept sections must be included in all maneu­ of the Army. He is a member of the vers and command post exercises ... United States Senate from South Caro­ d. There must be an appreciation lina. of the need of the field commander for clearly defined national objectives and policies. From the time the infantry first 2. GS representation should be es­ tablished in all Military Assistance Ad­ penetrates enemy-held territory, visory Groups in order to develop a whether through an overseas, over­ capability within the armies of our land, or airborne movement, the allies to conduct CAMG operations. commander is an occupier under Close liaison must be maintained with governmental agencies such as the For­ the terms of international law. eign Service, the International Coopera­ Decisions must be made im­ tion Administration, and the United mediately by the commander re­ States Intelligence Agency ... garding the people, government, 3. Development of a viable doctrine and economy, not only to comply to counteract Communist propaganda must be encouraged. Maximum use with the obligations imposed by must be made of the free intellectual international law and agreements, and religious traditions of the United and to implement United States States in combating communism and Brig. Gen. Strom Thurmond, USAR gaining our postwar objectives. policy objectives for the area, but (Photo by Quattlebaum Studio) also to exploit for his direct bene­ 4. The technological proficiency of fit the potential of available re­ em military operations, even if carried CAMG personnel must be increased by: sources in suporting and facilitat­ out with measured discrimination, will a. Maintaining a continuing re­ create civilian problems of unparalleled search program ... ing his combat operations. magnitude. b. Placing emphasis during CAMG To achieve combat success, he must They can almost stop a military oper­ training on such subjects as the role of destroy the enemy-and this includes ation, unless proper action is taken to CAMG in combat operations; develop­ the combat elements, the resources mo­ anticipate and plan in advance, as part ment of plans, orders, and annexes, bilized in their support and the.political of the military action, the CAMG meas­ problem solving methods and tech­ agency which directs the effort against ures that will effectively counteract niques; cultural and environmental fac­ him. these otherwise probable conditions. tors affecting the relationship between Consequently, the commander's deci­ The comma11der's CAMG operations our military and local governments and sions are influenced not only by his own are not limited to civil control and re­ peoples; and procedures for allocating and the enemy's relative combat power, lief measures ... [but encompass cer­ manpower and resources. but also by the civil characteristics of tain intelligence functions, damage con­ 5. Because of the wide areas of great the area of combat operations. In his trol, civil defense, use of information depth which are contemplated for atomic estimates of the situation he carefully media to gain local support and maxi­ age warfare, the problem of preparing weighs civil affairs and military govern­ mum use of indigenous resources.] CAMG personnel in area characteristics ment (CAMG) factors along with those and language will be magnified greatly. dealing with personnel, intelligence, Meeting CAMG Requirements Consequently, area documentation must operations, and logistics. . . . following are some specific pro­ be kept current and extremely concise . . . . The mission of the Army ... is posals for meeting the CAMG require­ The -designation of areas of deployment "to defeat the enemy forces in land com­ ments of the atomic age [ which will be must be made early in order that lan­ bat and gain control of the land and its characterized by a battlefield of great guage training requirements may be people." depth and width, large void and unoc­ met. In addition, increased emphasis However, as the scope of warfare en­ cupied areas, and extremely mobile and must be placed upon CAMG intelligence larges with the appearance of atomic self-contained units] : training, including the estimate of the weapons of increased destructiveness, so 1. GS staff sections and CAMG units situation and intelligence collection the scope of the commander's CAMG must be included in the combat com­ planning. responsibilities to the population be­ mander's force. This has several corol­ 6. Operational planning must give comes correspondingly intensified. Mod- laries. greater emphasis to refugee control in

14 The Army Reservist-April-May 1958 order to prevent interference with demonstrate the cooperation of the at Hot Springs, Arkansas. Held two ground mobility ... Army, Navy and Air Force elements to or three times a year by Fourth Army, provide logistic support in a theater the event permits Reserve aviators to Conclusion of operations. obtain cross country flying experience, The critical point of atomic warfare The Reservists participating in this and also stimulates interest in the Army will hinge on the combat commander's year's LOGEX will be advanced course Reserve Flight Program. Aircraft used ability to exploit the advantage gained students from the technical and admin­ by the pilots are either privately owned from the use of the weapon. With the istrative services. They will report to or leased by the Army. Flight expenses chaotic conditions envisioned, his ability Fort Lee one week prior to the com­ are paid by the Army. to handle the multitudinous problems­ mencement of the exercise for a course Some 60 USAR aviators attended the technical, ideological, logistical-posed of orientation and instruction under the dinner held in Hot Springs which was by the population among whom he is supervision of the maneuver director. followed by a question and answer operating may mean the difference be­ period and briefing on the Army Flight tween success or failure. Program. GI 1ns. Beneficiaries ... this is a time when the Army must be prepared instantly to -react The Veterans Administration reports 178 Extension Grads to situations requiring the use of that an increasing number of cases are either conventional or nuclear war· coming to light in which GI life in­ One hundred and seventy-eiuht Army fare. It is a time too when the high surance proceeds must be paid to other Reservists have successfully ;ompleted cost of new equipment demands the than the Veteran's immediate family be­ Army Extension Courses from seven most stringent economy-economy cause the veteran failed to keep his Service Schools during January-Febru­ in the use of money and in the use beneficiary listing up to date. ary 1958, Headquarters, U. S. Continen­ of people. Our active forces are be­ In many of the recent cases coming tal Army Command has announced. ing made leaner and more mobile. to light, the beneficiaries of VA record The schools and the number of Re- No American has any doubt of their were the same the veterans had named servists graduated follow: capability to perform their mission. when they took out their policies years Adjutant General's School: 4 ago, even though they had since married But the deployment of Army forces Artillery and Missile School: 9 overseas in the future will have to and had families, VA said. be accomplished much more rapidly VA is required by law lo pay GI Infantry School: 112 and perhaps with a considerably insurance proceeds to the beneficiary Army Medical Service School: 2 smaller percentage of supporting of record, whether or not the beneficiary Command and General Staff Col- troops than we have used in the still is in any way connected with the lege: 11 veteran. Changes of beneficiary can past. Among other requirements Quartermaster School: 20 this points up the need for a greater be made at any time without notifying CAMG capability than we have ever the beneficiaries, but they must be made Provost Marshal General's School: 20 had. If our combat forces are to be in writing over the policy-holder's signa­ effective, they must be assisted in ture and sent to the VA office serving the control of local populations. the policy. Changes cannot be made in They must have available all the re· a will. sources of the area it is possible to Appointments In Finance obtain. It is doubtful that we will be able in the future to allow our· Department of the Army Circular selves the time to build up large Army ROTC Won Match 601-13 announces a program for ap­ logistical bases overseas before com· pointment of a limited number of quali­ mitting our combat forces. The use Army was the winner of the William fied applicants as Reserve commissioned of local resources will probably be Randolph Hearst National Defense officers for service in the Finance Corps of decisive importance to us. This Trophy Match, fired in February, when with concurrent call to active duty, and is especially true of human re• the Oklahoma State University ROTC prescribes the procedures for processing sources. team won the National Defense cham­ of applicants submitted under this pro­ Hence as we see the impact of pionship. Scores: gram. Appointments are authorize.cl for new devices of war on the organi­ Army (Oklahoma State Uni- this program only in the grades of sec­ zation of the Army, and as we de­ versity) 961 ond and first lieutenant. vote a greater part of our national Navy (University of So. effort to technological develop· Calif) 954 ments, the importance of the CAMG Air Force (University of function in national defense in­ Oklahoma) 938 Special Auto Licenses creases. ROTC Rifle Competition for the Assistant Secretary of the Army Hearst National Defense Championship All members of the 357th Engr Bn George H. Roderick is a 20-shot, 50-foot, small bore match ( Const) USAR, in Chicago have slate with five-member teams competing. The license plates starting with the numbers Oklahoma State ROTC team had previ­ 357. The motif is further carried out ously captured the Army ROTC cham­ for the battalion staff in that the S-1, LOGEX 58 At Ft. Lee pionship (as reported in the March S-2, S-3, S-4, Executive officer and Bat­ Army Reservist). talion Commander have plates number Six tl:ousand troops, including certain 357-001, etc. This new means of iden­ Army Reserve officers, will participate tification was established when the in LOGEX 58 at Fort Lee, Virginia Battalion Commander, Major Charles from 11-17 May. USAR "Fly-In" Held Seltzer wrote to the Illinois Secretary Stressing the importance of maintain­ of State and proposed the plan. The ing logistic support under combat con­ Army Reserve aviators from Arkansas, state concurred an-d everyone in the ditioi:is with an enemy capable of using Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas staged unit sent in their license applications atomic weapons, the exercise will also one of their periodic "fly-ins" recently in a group.

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special interest to the military writer whetted by this pioneer glimpse, Steve who aspires to reach the radio and tele­ kept a scrap book in which he pasted vision audience. It is not only an ex­ everything connected with Army avia­ cellent book, but this writer has never tion that he could find in the press. As seen any other· on the market that be­ a result, probably no man in America gins to compare with it. today was better prepared to write the book "Man Unafraid." REARMING THE FRENCH, by It is an enthralling factual account of Marcel Vigneras, Office of the Chief the miracle of military aviation, written of Military History, Supt. of Docu­ by a trained military reporter and well ments, GPO, Washington, D. C. illustrated with early photographs of the By Major F.S. Otis, USAR $4.25 Army's first flyers and their planes. TELEVISION AND RA D I 0 Secretary of the Army Brucker has The latest book of the series "U. S. termed it "a particularly fascinating WRITING, By Stanley Field. Army in World War II" is the story of Houghton Mifflin Co, Boston. $6.75 vista of history", and that is exactly the French force under the leadership what it is. The old-timers live again on It may seem a little out-of-place to of General Henri Giraud, how they the pages of the book, and young and swelled the ranks of Allied Military old alike with an interest in things mili­ discuss a book of this nature in a mili­ power, helped tip the balance of power tary publication, but it has been this tary or aeronautical, will delight in the in the Mediterranean, and assisted in writer's experience that there are a lot intimate view we are given of the per­ the liberation of Europe. of military people interested in writing, sonalities of those early aviators. Per­ and more important, many of them with Eventually nearly 400,000 men were sonally, we found we were more in­ a story of importance to tell. The real equipped, trained and put into action terested in Army aviation in the 1907- reason for discussing Stan Field's book, on land, in the air, and on the sea, all 1916 clays than we thought we were though, is because of the chapter he in record time. going to be. It is a book we do not devotes to "Writing the Government The Giraucl-cleGaulle tug-of-war and hesitate to recommend. Program." other French political developments, the In addition to being an Adjunct Pro­ positions of the Americans, the French, fessor at the American University, Field the English, personal letters from the A comprehensive Bibliography on is Chief of Production for the Radio-TV various leaders, all make an interesting Limited War has been published by the Branch of the Troop Information Divi­ story even after the lapse of the years Department of the Army. Designated sion, DA, and certainly qualifies as an that now intervene. Vigneras draws the as D / A Pamphlet 20-60, this work was authority on government radio and TV conclusion that Americans received prepared for the purpose of collecting requirements for the writer. good value for the money and effort ex­ and presenting under one cover as much This chapter deals with personnel re­ pended in rearming the French. unclassified material as possible. quirements, Information Goals, The The new pamphlet contains a fore­ Wartime Program, The Wartime Audi­ word by Army Chief of Staff General ence, The Public Information Program, MAN UNAFRAID, by Col. Stephen Maxwell D. Taylor, who explains that Types of Programs, Talent in Uniform, F. Tillman, USAR, Army Times "Limited aggression, if not arrested, Ti1e Recruiting Program, The Armed Publishing Company, Washington, could lead to the possible loss of much Forces Radio and Television Service, D. C. $4.00 of the Free World, and if not quickly The Army Hour, The Military Audi­ Steve Tillman was eight years old the suppressed might spread into the gen­ ence, The Voice of America (in con­ day that the Wright Brothers made their eral conflagration, which we hope to siderable detail), Informing the Farmer, historic demonstration to prove to the avoid. I consider, therefore, that our The American National Red Cross, Army that their "flying machine" could readiness to fight and win promptly any and the Government Contract Writer. fly. The parade ground at Fort Myer local conflict is of the utmost impor­ The book, written as a text for use was the scene of the flight, and Steve's tance, not only to discourage potential in a college course, is the type that will father, an Army officer who had served enemies from limited military adven­ be an excellent reference book in any with the 8th U. S. Cavalry, took him to tures, but as one of the major deterrents public information office, and will be of see the demonstration. With his interest to general atomic war itself."

16 The Army Reservist-April-May 1958