The rotator [April 26, 1946]

              AAF OVERSEAS
REPLACEMENT DEPOT
A STRATEGIC
AIR COMMAND BASE
VOL. 5, NO. 37. 106th AAFBU, Greensboro, N. C, Friday, April 26, 1946. FREE DISTRIBUTION
ORD To Be Transferred
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To Training Unit May 1
Third Command Change In 60 Days
Places Post Under Barksdale HQ
For the third time in 60 days, antoher change in
higher headquarters command under which ORD oper­ates
is scheduled for May 1 with transfers of permanent
party personnel restricted until the change has been ef­fected.
EM Terminal Leave Pay Bill
To Receive House Vote May 13
The installation is expected to
be transferred from the Strategic
Air Command, Boiling Field, Wash­ington,
D. C, to the AAF Training
Command with headquarters at
Barksdale Field, Shreveport, Loui­siana.
Announcement of the pending
change came Tuesday coinciding
with the arrival at ORD of two
AAF generals, Maj. Gen. St. Clair
Streett," acting commander of the
Strategic Air Command, and Brig.
Gen. John E. Upston, AAF head-quartets,
Washington.
The generals flew to Greensboro
from the capital Tuesday morning
fo* a two-hour conference" with
Colonel H. K. Mooney, ORD com­manding
officer, that extended al­most
through the entire noon hour.
Before returning to Washington in
the afternoon, General Streett and
General Upston, escorted by Col.
Mooney and Lt. Col. Curtis I. Pul-lh
» director of processing, inspected
ORD processing facilities.
Lieut. Gen. John K. Cannon, for­mer
commanding general of the
Twelfth air force, is the present
chief of the training command.
Gen. Cannon is a command pilot
and also holds an observer's rating.
His decorations include the Distin­guished
Service Medal, the Legion
of -merit and the Air Medal.
Among his earlier assignments
were director of training at Ran­dolph
Field, Texas, chief of a U. S.
military mission to Buenos Aires
in 1938, and commanding general
of the First Interceptor Command
at Mitchel field, N. Y., in 1942.
The only other AAF ORD at
Kearns, Utah will also be trans­ferred
to the training command.
ORD was under the Personnel
Distribution Command for more
than a year and a half until Feb­ruary
28 when First Air Force took
over. The base was then trans­ferred
to the Strategic Air Com­mand
April 1.
The shouldef insignia?
It may yet be the regular army
air corps patch but an arc tab
denoting "training command" will
probably have to be added.
Base Strength
Listed By SAC
Authorized permanent party
strength figures assigned to
Greensboro ORD were announced
by the Strategic Air Command this
week, although transfer of the
ORD to the AAF Training Com­mand
' may mean a complete
change in the near future.
Under the Strategic Air Com­mand,
the ORD will be authorized
282 officers, 13 Army nurses, 8 war­rant
officers, 2722 enlisted men,
and 1418 civilian employees. The
new authorization of personnel is to
become effective on April 30.
Kearns ORB, the only other AAF
replacement depot, is authorized
292. officers, 13 nurses, 8 warrant
officers, 3059 enlisted men, and 715
civilian employees under the new
strength program-.
Generals See 'Line9
Bill To Provide Reimbursement For
Accrued Unused Leave To 120 Days
Terminal leave pay for enlisted men looks like a sure
thing, according to reports from Washington this week.
Surveys and petitions were circulated throughout mem­bers
of the House of Representatives, where the bill was
introduced by Rep. Dwight L. Rogers (D., Fla.), showing
a favorable vote when the hill is acted upon May 13.
If passed by the House, Senate,* "
listed personnel who are discharged
prior to the passing of this bill will
have 90 days after the official en­actment
of the act In which to file
application for terminal leave pay.
Furlough time will be computed
retroactively to December 7, 1941.
The subject of terminal leave for
enlisted men was brought up after
many charges from military per­sonnel
that it was considered one
At present the bill contains a re-]of the worst of many "caste sys-troactive
clause providing that en-Item" situations.
and signed by the President, the
bill would provide enlisted men
furlough or leave time equal to 2V4
days per month or 30 days per
year. It also provides that when
an enlisted man Is separated he
will be entitled to reimbursement
for 'full pay and allowance of ac­crued
unused leave up to 120 days
at the rate of pay for the rank-held
at the time of discharge,
a
New Gunnery
Course Slated\
For AAF Pilots
A specialized gunnery training
course will be conducted at the
AAF Fighter Gunnery School at
Williams Field, Chandler, Ariz., ac
cording to an AAF Letter, dated
April 16.
Designed to provide specialized
gunnery training in fighter and ad­vanced
single engine training-type
aircraft to a limited number of
properly qualified officers, the
course will provide the AAF Train­ing
Command and other units with
gunnery instructors and supervisory
personnel.
Applicants must be Regular Army
officers or Officers who have indi­cated
their willingness to remain on
active duty in accordance with xhe
provisions of AAF Letter 50-156.
For the course, to be conducted
on combat fighter-type aircraft, ap­plicants
must (1) hold a currently
Affective aeronautical rating of pi­lot,
(2) be qualified as competent to
pilot combat fighter-type aircraft,
(3) possess SSN 1055 or 1056, and
(4) have flown as pilot of combat
fighter-type aircraft a minimum of
300 hours.
Applicants for the course to be
conducted on advanced single en­gine
training-type aircraft must (1)
hold a currently effective aeronauti-ca
rating of pilot, (2) possess de­sirable
instructor qualifications, and
(3) have flown as pilot -of advanced
single engine training-type aircraft
at least 20 hours or more in the 80
days preceding application.
Starting dates of classes will be
nnounced —hen quotas are allotted.
Students will be ordered to attend
hi course on temporary duty. Com­missioned
pilots may contact the
Officers* Section in T-l for further
information arid application.
NOTICE
Enlisted men with past ex­perience
as newspaper reporters
or linotype operators are re­quested
to contact the Public
Relations Officer, Bldg. T-170.
Doolittle Board Considering
Varied 'Caste System' Gripes
One of the busiest offices in the. Promotions—Establish a board of
nation's capital at present, is the officers and men to review, appli-
Doolittle board investigating the cations for each opening. Exami-
"caste system," relations between nations, on the order given by
officers and Xnlisted men. A civi- the Navy and Civil Service Com-lian
staff is now on duty reading j mission, should be taken, and
all letters and testimony on gripes, those making the highest grades
extracting material and preparing' should receive the ratings,
data for study by the six board Quarters and rations—Since the
members. The purpose of the cost of living affects all, allow*
board is.to study the gripes and ances for such should be equalized,
complaints presented and submit Segregation—Eliminate in the-recommendations
for improvement' atert, mess halls, and other pub*
to Secretary of War Robert Pat-1 He places. Seating'should be on a
terson. I first come, first served basis.
Army Times has compiled an in-| EM Rights—Set up a board In­teresting
survey on some of the; dependent of the Army with suffi-outstanding
subjects coming before cient power to see that the griev-the
board along with suggestive lances called to its attention were
remedies!
Terminal leave—Grant to all or
eliminate altogether.
Saluting—Eliminate during off-duty.
Chaplains—Should not be com­missioned
officers.
properly adjusted. The board
should be available to GIs at all
times.
•Latrines—Same for all.
Courts-Martial—At least 50 per
cent of the letters received de-
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840,000 Men To Be Eligible
For Release In Year's Time
Lt. Co). C. I. Pullig, director of processing, is shown as he escorts
Maj. Gen. St. Clair Streett; Col. H. K._Mooney, and Brig. Geni John
E. Upston through one section of the ORD processing line. TOE
New SOP Released
For US Shipments
Domestic shipments of up to 300
men per day may be handled under
a new Standard Operating Proce­dure
released last week-end.
Colored troops make up the ma­jority
of the shipments under the
new SOP, bi^t overseas processes
rejected for physical deficiencies or
training deficiencies are among the
men leaving ORD for continental
U. S. assignments. EM going to
separation centers are also shipped
under the new SOP.
. Separation center shipments are
scheduled seven days per week, but
there are no domestic shipments
Saturdays and Sundays other than
of men to be discharged.
The new operating procedure
covers briefing and shipping regu­lations
for the men on domestic
shipments.
Five-Star Rariksi
Made Permanent
WASHINGTON—CNS)—The Sen­ate
made permanent recently the
five-star rankings of Generals of
the Army George C. Marshall,
Douglas T. Mac Arthur, Dwight D.
Eisenhower and Henry H. Arnold. •
Rep. Walter G. Andrews, ranking
Republican on the House military
affairs, committee, announced re­cently
that 840,000 men are going
to be eligible for discharge from
the Army during the 12 months be­ginning
July 1.
His statement was the most com­prehensive
information so far re­leased
on the plans of the Army
during the next fiscal year.
Andrews gave figures on dis­charges
month by month and pub­lished
a breakdown on the disposi­tion
by theaters of the 1,070,000 men
who will be in '.he "Army on July
1, 1947. •
The estimated strength for the
various theaters stated by the New
York Congressman was:
European and North Atlantic—
512,000 on April 1, 1848; 346,000 on
July 1, 1946; 201,000 on J u l y l , 1947.
Pacific—490,000 on April 1, 1946;
438,000 on July 1, 1946; ^76,000 on
July 1, 1947; Caribbean—35,000 on
April 1, 1946; 40,000 on "July 1, 1946;
46,000 on Jury 1, 1947. Alaska—
16,000 on April 1, 1946; 22,000 on
July 1, 1948; 16,000 on July 1, 1947.
United States (including some en
route overseas)—1,247,000 on April
1, 1946; 704,000 on July I, 1946; 528,-
000 on July 1, 1947.
Month-by-month discharges after
July 1 were listed by Andrews.
After July, discharges on expira­tion
of enlistment and on 18
months' service for non-Regulars
will run between 40,000 and 70,000
each month, except in November
and December when a large num­ber
of men who enlisted for one
year will be up for discharge.
The estimated discharge rates are:
July, 139,000; August. 65,000: Sep*
tember, 50,000; October, 60,000; No­vember
and December. 105,000 each;
January and February; 70,000 each;
March, 88.000; April, 45,000; May,
40,000, and June, 30,000.
On Inside Pages
Features:
"PX"—Page 7—Sgt. Jack Hatch
gives the inside story on Un­cle
Sam's general stores.
"How Do They Do It?"—Page 7
—Pfc. Stanton Thies asks
about the GI moviegoers^sixth
"Bugle-Hating"—Page 3—ORD's
"Brad" tosses a few pop bot­tles
at thfl Soldiers Enemy
No- 1
Editorial: -
"Interim"—Page X
GIs Entering Diplomatic Corps
May* Be Antidote For Stuffiness
A new diplomatic day is dawning
in America, according to Edward
C. Acheson, brother of Acting Sec­retary
of State Dean Acheson.
Acheson, who has studied the
stuffed shirt, Its cause and its cure,
says that any stuffed shirt in Uncle
Sam's diplomatic corps eventually
may have their Stuffiness knocked
out by former GIs hustling into the
foreign service.
He announced this week that
starting July 1 George Washington
University in Washington, D. C,
will have a course for veterans
who yearn to fee diplomats.
As director of this school, Ache­son
has interviewed some of the
men who plan to enroll.
"You can tell the difference just
by talking with them," Acheson
says.
"Before the war we helped a
private school here to tutor fledg­ling
diplomats. Many of these
came from swanky eastern schools.
"Nice kids, of course, but after
18 months in the diplomatic serv­ice
something happened. They be­gan
to get stuffy, especially around
the collar."
. And the new crop?
"Older, for one thing. But .more
important, most of them are down-to-
earth fellows. Many are from
the middlewest^^^this trend con-tinuesafll
ftfll ^kkunafic corps
w i l ^ f l i^Jcnows, it
ca