BTC 10-Shun [November 19, 1943]

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^Suggestions
Win Passes
For 8 EM
The Suggestion Box pays!
Eight of 16 enlisted men -who sub­mitted
ideas that ranged from:
"Hospital visiting hours should be
posted on all bulletin boards" to
"A ramp should be built from the
road outside of T-l to the drill
field," won rewards at a recent
meeting of the Suggestion Box
Board. Each of the eight was
granted a three-day pass.
A ninth—Pvt. S. C. Rue, former­ly
of the 1180th—hit the jack-pot,
but wasn't here to collect. He de­parted
before he could cash in on
the equivalent of a nine-day pass.
Pvt. Rue's three suggestions were
adopted and each won for him a
three-day pass.
All Adopted.
He proposed construction of the
ramp on .the T-l road; the recon­struction
of mess tables so they
can be GI'd more easily and that
trainees be issued field rations
while in the bivouac area. All three
proposals have been adopted.
Lt. H. E. Varian, assistant mess
officer, was granted a three-day
leave for suggesting that a two-hour
lecture course on the conduct
and discipline in mess halls be in­cluded
in the basic training sched­ule.
• Other suggestions approved were:
Posting of instructions regarding
the use of fuses for electric light
systems in barracks; wearing of
insignias on robes worn by hos­pitalized
officers and the use of
special file boxes for dispensary
forms.
The seven enlisted men to be
granted three-day passes, in addi­tion
to Pvt. Rue, are: Pvts. Ralph
Becker, 1189th; Jack Fern, 1177th,
and H. I. Silver, 1183rd; Pfcs. Jack
S. Causey, Det. Finance Dept., and
Dan Stallings, medical detachment;
Cpl. John Fonda, 1186th; T/3 J.
XJ. Rodgin, medical detachment, and
S/Sgt. Henry Cotugno, 1184th.
Letters of Appreciation.
Letters of appreciation were also
awarded by the board to seven
other enlisted men whose sugges­tions
were approved and recom­mended
for adoption.
The seven are: Pvts. Clayton H.
Bowles, Hq. and' H(j. Sq: John T.
Tucker, 1186th; George F. Ockers-hausen,
1187th; S. C. Conti, 1175th;
and Frank L. Hailstock, 303rd
Wing* Cpl. Albert R. Grenier, Hq.
and Hq. Sq., and Sgt. Richard J.
Welsh, 1186th.
' Civilians, too, will be rewarded
tor suggestions accepted by the
board. Cash awards ranging from
$5 to $250 wili be made to civilian
personnel on the Post whose ideas
are put into effect.
A Baby Is Baptized At Post Chapel
CHAPEL CEREMONY—In a service unique in wartime, little
Jean Frances Giltmier, three months old, was baptized Sunday at
Chapel No. 2. Seen with her during the ceremony are her father and
mother, S/Sgt. and Mrs. Richard Giltmier, and Assistant Post Chap-
Iain Wilson W. Harvey. S/Sgt. Giltmier, a railroad clerk in civilian
life, is a drill Instructor attached to the 1181st training group, and his
wife lives in nearby Randleman, N. C. The baby was born Aug. 9 in
Chicago, where S/Sgt. and Mrs, Giltmier lived before he entered the
army June 15, 1942.
Jones Family
S i x t e e n In Same 1189th
B a r r a c k s K e e p ' Em
All Guessing.
an
"I'm one of the Jones boys."
It may be a gag to some people,
but up in barracks 436 of the 1189th
Its no idle jest. For into that one
barracks Fate in the shape of the
letter "J" has brought together
16—-count 'em—Jones'l
Aware that anything can happen
l a the army, Sgt. Ralph Cerbone,
Jr., of the 1189th plans and training
office, has been tearing his hair,
figuratively speaking, ever since
the-16 Jones', all privates, showed
up on his records one morning a
few weeks" ago.
The situation sometimes produces
unexpected results.
"When a Pvt. Jones appears on
•fee list for guard duty, 16 Jones'
are apt to show up," says Sgt.
Cerbone, explaining that the boys
prefer guard duty to mess attend­ant
duty. "But when the name
pears on a KP list, we may find
rselves looking for 'the other
ties.'"
Just how the Privates Jones man-jage
the situation among themselves
lis difficult to imagine, especially
with three Williams and two Johns
out of the 16 given names. Just
plain "Jonesy" is out for the du­ration.
Sgt. Cerbone is still looking for
an all-out solution. In the mean­time,
for the record and the bene­fit
of the other fellows in No. 463,
the names of those 16 men are
Alphonso, Bobby, Booker T, Eliga,
to, Howard C, John C, John W,
L Z., Nathan, Purnell, Royal A.,
Bank C Sylvester, William D.,
William E, and William H.—Jones.
304th Wing
Leads Post
In A. E. R.
The 304th Wing, with $376.05, led
all others in voluntary contributions
by enlisted men to the Army Emer­gency
Relief for October, Maj. L. B.
Cannon, personal affairs officer, has
announced.'
A grand total of $1,277.31 was con­tributed
by EMs of four Wings and
two detachments on the Post.
The 302nd Wing donated $358.53;
the 303rd, $283.99; the 301st, $217.49;
Medical Detachment, $23.85, and the
65th Mess grolip, $17.40.
For the same month, civilian
personnel of the Post bought war
bonds totaling $13,898.75, represent­ing
participation by 89 percent of
the employees who set aside an
average of eight percent of their
gross pay.
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New Victory Patch
For Europe Theaters
U. S. Army personnel at European
Theater Headquarters are wearing
a new victory shoulder patch. The
oval-shaped patch has a dark blue
background on which appear two
red lightning bolts fringed in gold,
forming a "V," symbolizing victory
as well as the union of Allied
ground and air forces.
Thanksgiving Issue
The next issue of your favorite
newspaper, 10-Shun, will be a
Thanksgiving Day special coming
out a day earlier than usual.
(Group correspondents—get those
notes in Saturday, Please.) A
feature next week will be the
Thanksgiving Day turkey dinner
menu.
Applications
For ASTP §
Now Limited
Applications for ASTP have been
halted at BTC 10, so far as trainees
and attached enlisted men are con­cerned,,
according to a recent an­nouncement
by Lt. Ralph W. Tyler,
recorder for the ASTP board.
Consideration in the future, Lt
Tyler said, will be given only to
applicatoins already received and
to applications that may come from
permanent personnel of the camp.
|The men who have already ap­plied,"
he explained, "will be con­sidered
when quotas permit, but
cannot be held at this point waiting
for such quotas and will probably
be transferred to the assignment
recommended by classification."
Trainees and attached men -who
have not applied will be able to
apply for ASTP after they complete
technical schools, Lt. Tyler said,
"or are assigned to some per­manent
station."
Until the change of regulations
was announced, the ASTP field sec­tion
board of BTC 10 had received
hundreds of applications per month.
Shop And Mail
Early For Christmas
Military personnel were urged
this week to do their Christmas
shopping and mailing now in or­der
to assure delivery before
Christmas.
Capt. Francis Leyens, exchange
officer, said a varied selection of
gifts and cards may be found
in the show cases at the main
PX and, as an added incentive
to early shoppers, the PX will
.wrap Christmas packages free of
"charge in Christmas wrapping
paper.
PAC Candidates
Are Classified Here
On Tentative Basis
Post Schedule
Pushed Back
Half-Hour Daily
In case you haven't heard, you
sleep an extra half hour each
morning. First call for Reveille
now is at 5:45 a. m. instead of
at 5:15.
It has been thus since Wednes­day
when the whole schedule of
training hours was pushed back
30 minutes to conform to the
new schedule of calls. On week­days,
roll call will be at 6:05,
With assembly for drill at 8
o'clock
Staff sections and civilian per­sonnel
have new office hours,
8:30 a. m. to 5:30 p. m., daily.
Maj, Light9 s Son
Alive-W. D.
Informs Parents
Capt. Herbert M. Light, Jr., son
of Maj. Herbert M. Light, CO of
Headquarters and Headquarters
squadron, is alive and the report
that he had met
death while on a
bombing mission
over Europe was
e r r o n e o u s , his
p a r e n t s were
notified yester­day
in a War De-p
a r t m e n t tele­gram.
This con­firmed
a belief
previously h e ld
by t h e y o u ng
captain's parents. ,,,
They had received from him letters
written after the reported date of
his death. v
The message said that Capt. Light
was ill and gave his address in care
of the APO in New York.
A telegram from the War De­partment
on Oct. 24 notified the
parents of Capt. Light he had been
killed in action. A later communica­tion
set the date of his death as
Aug. 1 on the basis of information
received through the Rumanian In­ternational
Red Cross. This was
the date of the raids on the Ploesti
oil fields in Rumania. Upon re-turing
to this post some days ago
from his home in Long Beach, Cal,
Maj. Light found a letter awaiting
him from his son, written Oct. 25—
a day after the War Department
telegram. As further evidence,
Mrs. Light has a number of news­paper
clippings, dated Aug. 26 and
27, of Associated Press and United
Press interviews with Capt. Light
in Cairo, Egypt, where he de­scribed
the Ploesti raid.
Capt. Light, 22, is a veteran flier.
As a bombardier, he has flown on
27 missions against the enemy since
he went overseas a year ago last
month.
He has been decorated with the
Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air
Medal, and three clusters.
Stepson Of Former Liberian President,
Trainee Here, Wants To Be U. S. Citizen
By CPL. JOE QUINN.
Pvt. Frank Osborn Roberts, a
trainee of the 303rd Wing, has at
least .two distinctions that stand
him out—first, he is the stepson of
C. B. D. King, former president of
Liberia, and secondly he has more
-"brothers" than any other soldier
on the post. ,
The reason for all the "brothers"
is that in his native African coun­try;
all members of the same tribe
are regarded as being blood broth­ers
and consequently every mem­ber
of the Vai tribe, of which he is
a "member, are "brothers" of Toniea"
Massaquoi—Roberts' Liberian tribal
name.
Pvt. Roberts was inducted Oct. 6
at Fort Devens, Mass., and has
been on the post almost three
weeks, long enough to know that
he likes army life and life at BTC
10. In fact, he likes most every­thing
American—so well that he is
in a hurry to become a U. S. citi­zen.
Before the war he studied at PVT. FRANK ROBERTS
Hampton Institute at Hampton, Va.,
was graduated in 1938 with a B. S.
degree in vocational education and
the following year took an M. A.
degree in architectural engineering
and building construction. Later he
did research work in architectural
design for tropical countries^: All of
this was in preparation for his re­turn
to Liberia where he hoped to
be jpf service to his people.
Glad To Be In Uniform.
Then the_ United States entered
the war and although an alien, he
indicated a willingness to fight for
this country should he be needed.
Finally he was called by his draft
board and he was glad to get into
uniform. One of the first things he
did was inquire about becoming a
citizen, and now that he is on the
post he has filled out the necessary
forms and will be naturalized soon
in the next class to be sworn in as
citizens.
Now that he is in the Air Forces
he would like to become a photog-
(ContJnuedOaPage7,Col 5)
Tests Given
Daily At Unit
In Hospital
Pre-Aviation Cadet candi­dates,
who used to go to
Nashville for classification
as pilots, bombardiers and
navigators will henceforth
be classified tentatively or
be disqualified right here at
BTC 10.
A new Army Air Force policy
calls for establishing examination
and what amounts to classification
units at the basic training centers.
Already, one has been set up and
is in operation here.
Physical and mental tests are be­ing
given to more than 100 candi­dates
daily at the new .Medical
and Psychological Examining unit
established recently at Station Hos­pital.
Classifications will be based
on results of the examinations.
Classifications Withheld.
However, they will be unofficial
because classifications will be with­held
from candidates who pass their
tests until they have completed
academic training at colleges and
have arrived at pre-flight schools.
But those who fail to qualify as
pilots, navigators or bombardiers
will not be sent to college, it was
announced. They will be notified
immediately and will be subject
to re-classification at BTC 10 for
some other branch of the AAF.
- To these extents the policy is
new. Heretofore, candidates not
only completed basic training here,
but were sent to and completed a
five-months college course before
they reported for classification.
The PAC examining unit here
swung into full stride this monthr
with the opening of the psychologi­cal
section. The medical section
has been operating several weeks.
Lt. Col. William P. May is officer
in charge of the unit and Maj. L.
B. Ward, chief of the psychological
section.
Candidates, Maj. Ward said, are
given just as thorough tests here as
they would have received at Nash­ville.
Examinations are mental and
physical, with a mixture of various
co-ordination tests.
Three days are required for a
candidate to complete his examina­tion.
The first day is devoted to
written tests; the second to appa­ratus
co-ordination tests and part
of the physical test and the third
day to the remainder of the physi­cal.
Special apparatus has been in­stalled
for the various co-ordina­tion
tests. Devices range from
square pegs which, when turned,
test a future pilot's finger dexterity,
to a rudder control apparatus that
simulates a plane on the ground
which the "pilot" must control with,
rudder pedals only.
Economy was the reason given
(Continued On Page 7, Col. 5)
Try Barbers
In Bldg. 980
Enlisted men who have found it
necessary to stand in line for ton-sorial
service were reminded they
might have better luck at the bar­ber
shop in Bldg. 980 across from
the Service club.
It has facilities to accommodate
more men at one time than the oth­er
two shops on the post. Capt.
Francis Leyens, exchange officer,
said 20 barbers ^are employed in
980. Both 980 and the shop in the
main PX are open from 11 a. m. to
6 p.m.
The «T" Stands
For "Temporary"
It doesn't signify "trainingr,» it
doesn't stand for "tent;" and it
doesn't mean "technical," nor is it
the T in BTC 10. If you are one
who has spent many of his waking
moments pondering what T in your
barracks number stands for, then
relax—your worries are over!
From the office of the Post En?
gineer this week comes the wel­come
disclosure that the T as in
T-135 stands for "Temporaiy."