Armored Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, March 20, 1970 Page: 1 of 18
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VOL. 28 NO. 10
By SPEC. 5 ROD NORMAN
Information Specialist
The military uniform and
the way it's worn is one of
the most important aspects
of our military service. Next
to military courtesy the
uniform stands out as a vital
clue to character and attitude.
Common uniform violations
are those involving local
policy but a quick look at
Army Regulation 670-5 will
provide an adequate guideline
to uniform rules.
Along with listing all the
parts of uniforms the regula
tion specifies that Army uni
forms are not to be worn when
engaged in off-duty civilian
employment.
No jewelry watch chains
or similar civilian items
should appear on the uniform.
Protective headgear design
ed for use while operating
a motorbike motorcycle or
similar vehicle is allowed as
is any protective headgear
wherever required by law.
Installation commanders are
provided with the option to
prescribe the uniform for
wear within the limits of the
installation—insuring that a
neat uniform appearance is
presented.
Perhaps the greatest thorn
in a soldier's side is the con
stant comment he receives on
his appearance. Every man
doesn't dress or wear his hair
SENTINEL SHORTS
Happenings
SPECIAL SERVICES has opened anew Arts
and Crafts Center located on 303rd Street near
the new 1st Armd. Div. area. The center has
facilities for photography sculpture pottery
lapidary and leatherwork. A store is currently
being stocked and will soon be in operation. The
center is closed Mondays and Tuesdays but is
open 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and
12:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
MAKE-UP DATES begin this Saturday as
the post "Brush-In" moves into its final phase
providing decay preventative treatments to those
dependents who missed their treatment dates. The
treatment is available beginning at 10 a.m. in
Sports Arena No. 1. Make-up treatments continue
March 28 and conclude April 4.
"JAZZ ON THE ROCKS" a musical series
of the entertainment division of Post Special
Services is featuring "The New Citilimits" tonight
in the 141st Sig. Bn. classroom and Saturday at
the Entertainment Center (Bldg. 3403 near the
intersection of 162nd and Brigade Ave). Both
performances begin at 7:30 p.m.
TEN POST PERSONNEL received one dollar
each this week from the military police for having
their seat belts fastened when stopped for routine
courtesy checks. They were Walter Amacker
Mark Howey Luis Alverez James Down James
Marsch Cranston Colbert Patsy Shields Roberta
Pearson Charles Calhoun and Gary Hendricks.
THE ANNUAL MILITARY ACADEMY
Founders Day dinner will be held tonight at 6:30
at the Officers Open Mess. All former West Point
Cadets and graduates of the Naval Academy and
Air Force Academy are invited. Gen. Hamilton
H. Howze (Ret.) will be the speaker.
TWO ARTS AND CRAFTS displays one of
watercolor paintings the other of woodcarvings
will be on display until April 18 at the Arts
and Crafts Center Bldg. 33. Most of the trans
parent watercolors painted by Staff Sgt. Deimis
Zacharias Hq. & Hq. Co. 311th ASA Bn. are
done from sketches made in the Ft.Hood area.
The woodcarvings the personal collection of Mrs.
Ralph Hervey of Temple include carvings from
Brazil Jerusalem Europe and Africa.
ALABAMA VOTERS wishing to apply for
absentee ballots for the May 5 primary election
must indicate on their applications (SF75 Federal
Post Card Application) the political party for
which they want to place their votes. Voters are
allowed to vote in only one of the primaries.
Did You Know?
DID YOU KNOW that Project MASSTER
is separately funded and does not draw funds
from other Ft. Hood activities? The project's
presence here has brought an estimated 3 million
additional dollars to Ft. Hood's economy this year.
Inside Story
Ft. Hood photographers captured 30 of 99
awards presented in the Fourth Army photo con
test. Lt. Alan Vogel led all entrants with eight
awards including two best of show finishes. De
tails on Page 11.
Classified 17 Editorial 4
Movies 16 Sports 15
Social Notes 6 7 Eye Catcher 11
Do You Wear Your Uniform Properly?
the same but a look at the
unit standard operating pro
cedure (SOP) will provide
some clues to the unit's pre
ferences.
Sgt. Maj. Q. W. Hawthorne
2nd Armd. Div. sergeant ma
jor pointed out some of the
more flagrant uniform viola
tions.
"Too often soldiers will mix
if or it iv a
clothes—especially the field
jacket" he commented. "The
field jacket can never be
worn with civilian clothes.
Although there is no adequate
rule of thumb to mixing
clothing other than the
regulation one rule might
keep you out of trouble. If
The Department of Defense
has announced that it will be
closing Fifth Army Head
quarters at Ft. Sheridan 111.
and combining the head
quarters operations with those
of Fourth Army at Ft. Sam
Houston Texas.
Disclosure was made during
the announcement that 371
on so id at on
realignment or closure actions
of military installations will
be made as part of Defense
Department budget reductions
The 366th Sig. Bn. Fourth
U.S. Army NCO Academy and
the 13th Spt. Bde. have achiev
ed their unit goal of 100 per
cent participation in the Na
tional Health Agencies (NHA)
and the International Service
Agencies (ISA) joint fund-rais
ing campaign. The campaign
will continue until April 10.
One of the many agencies
covered under the campaign
is the American Cancer Socie
ty-
It has been estimated that
this year cancer will take the
lives of approximately 40000
children under the age of 15.
Almost half of them will die
of leukemia a cancer of blood-
forming tissues. More school
children will die of cancer
than from any other disease.
Today there are over 300000
Men of Co. D 2nd Bn.
52nd Inf. 1st Armd. Div. got
an unusual reception when
they moved into the vicinity
of Copperas Cove on a routine
field exercise.
"There were snakes
everywhere we looked" said
Pfc. Earl Barnes "They were
on the rocks in the grass
and brush the whole place
you're not sure ask or don't
wear it."
When asked about is
greatest concern with
improper dress he readily
admitted that the field jacket
was the ordinary soldier's
Achille's hieel.
"The field jacket stands out
on a soldier and there are
more things liable to be
wrong" he noted. "Gloves are
mandatory with the field
jacket and the opposite is
true. No gloves without the
jacket."
Lt. Col. Victor A. Cullen
iv is on os a a
dealt with appearance and
cleanliness.
American children under 18
who have lost their fathers
from cancer. Over 250000
have lost their mothers.
Startling figures aren't
they? Yet 10 years ago they
were even worse. Research
education concerning detection
of cancer have proven very
fruitful.
Cancer typically begins as
a "localized" disease. At the
start just one of the tiny
cells of the body (or perhaps
a few cells) undergoes an un-
fortunate change it
becomes a malignant cell
cancer. The cancer cell
reproduces itself by dividing
into two cells which in turn
redivide and so on. All the
descendants of the original
cancer cell are themselves
cancer cells. Thus the cancer
grows.
Snake Charmers' Field Day
was literally crawling with
them!"
The unit was there to
establish a firebase however
and refused to be intimidated.
With typical infantry ex
pedience the men began to
dispatch the reptiles with
sticks stones and entrenching
tools. The final score after
a two-hour search-and-destroy
Chute Rigger
Folds Life
In His Hands
ARMORED SENTINEL
FORT HOOD TEXAS FRIDAY MARCH 20 1970
Gentleman At Right Does Not
"Haircuts are a constant
problem" Cullen pointed out.
"The military uniform is only
part of a complete pic
ture—and that picture includes
appearance."
Although not admitting to
an pa a a
Cullen did express his concern
over the repeated misuse of
the fatigue cap.
"A good rule of thumb might
be that the cap should never
be worn in any way that would
not facilitate a respectful
salute" he noted.
Other violations covered by
both the division headquarters
and the provost marshal's of
fice included field jackets
4th 5th Army Headquarters
Will Combine At Texas Fort
for Fiscal Year 1970 and an
ticipated reductions for FY71.
The combined Fourth and
Fifth Army Headquarters will
become known as Fifth Army
a or in to A
a civilian newspaper in no
way connected with the U.S.
A N of a
however has been made. The
Defense Department has said
that further details will be
made available before July
1. It has disclosed information
concerning the fate of Ft.
Sheridan however.
The present Fifth Army
Headquarters located on the
outskirts of Chicago will close
its operations by mid-1971
a vi a he or a a
defense command unit some
family housing some officers
dealing in reserve matters and
"other functions oriented to
the Chicago area."
The Department estimates
that from 1500 to 2000 civilian
jobs may be affected at Ft.
Sheridan.
The great majority of
cancers originate on the
surface of some tissues such
as the skin the inner surface
of the uterus the lining of
the mouth stomach in
testines bladder or a bron
chial tube the lining of a
duct in the breast prostate
gland or elsewhere. For a
time such cancers typically
remain at the site of origin
and are visible only under
a miscroscope but later
growing into a mass that can
be seen with the naked eye.
After a time some of the
cancer cells penetrate beyond
the surface and "invade" the
underlying tissues. This is "in
visible cancer." After in
vading the cancer continues
to grow but for a time the
cancer cells may remain more
effort was snakes-0 Co. D-ll.
The snakes were identified
as venomous copperheads.
The Co. element was still
in the process of "securing
the area" when orders were
issued changing the location
of the base camp to a different
site. The company departed
without objection.
By PVT. LLOYD LA CUESTA
Information Specialist
For six Ft. Hood personnel
every day of work must be
perfection because anything
shorter than perfection could
in at or
unsuspecting soldier.
Every time a soldier of the
Fourth Army jumps from an
airplane and feels a reassuring
tug and sees a billowing
parachute canopy above him
he can thank the four men
and two women of Ft. Hood's
Parachute Maintenance Shop
for his safe float to earth.
The profession is called
"rigging" ... the packing
and inspection of parachutes
to ensure their performance
when called upon. There is
little glamor to the job but
one of the riggers feels that
like the medical profession
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unzipped and unsnapped
jungle boots worn in the
states bright colored T-shirts
and extreme taper on fatigue
uniforms.
Hawthorne added his con
a
decorations.
a a ad
Airborne insignia worn on the
cap and braid all are subject
to assignment to an active
unit" he remarked. "The
braid is subject to infantry
units and the airborne badges
to airborne units."
Capt. Richad T. Sandlin
os a a
expressed the attitude stressed
(See UNIFORMS page two)
The nationwide installation
actions will reduce ex
penditures by more than $914
million annually and eliminate
approximately 35300 military
and 58600 civilian positions.
Other actions involving
Fourth Army installations or
activities include the reduction
of Ft. Wingate Army Depot
Gallup N.M. to reserve
status and the inactivation of
two Hawk missile battalions
at Ft. Bliss.
or less together as in intact
as a
spreading irregularly. So long
as all of the living cancer
cells remain where the disease
started it is said to be
"localized."
The more dangerous phases
of cancer are the later ones.
Some of the cancer cells
eventually become detached
and are carried through the
lymph channels or blood
vessels to other parts of ih
body. This process is known
as "metastasis." But the body
has a protective mechanism.
This stage of the disease is
known as ''regional in
volvement."
If left untreated the cancer
cells eventually spread to
many parts of the body. This
is "advanced cancer." Death
is almost inevitable although
not necessarily quick.
The problem then is to
detect cancec before it has
spread so that it can be
removed by surgery or
destroyed by radiation.
For unknown reasons some
an an a
slowly while others grow and
spread rapidly. Some types
spread with such rapidity that
they are incurable at the
present time. Fortunately
(See CANCER page two)
his job also carries life and
death responsibilities.
From Ft. Sam Houston to
the south Ft. Sill to the north
a a A
detachments between Albu
querque to the west and Little
Rock to the east the Ft. Hood
Parachute Maintenance Shop
supplies some 1500 chutes.
This is the sole source of
support for all Fourth Army
National Guard and Army
Reserve jumps.
The shop is supervised by
CWO Eugene Bumblaough.
is it a a
Sgt. Charles Smith Spec. 4
Edward Roberts and Spec. 4
Gary Coombes. In addition
two civilians aid in the daily
at on
Rivers and Mrs. Marie Den-
nard who both began packing
parachutes during World War
II hold "Master Rigger"
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NAME RANK AND BRAND OF
HAIR TONIC? Do you look like
this? Or even remotely resemble it?
Perhaps it's time for you to review un
iform regulations before you're
snowed under with DRs. An interview
licenses from the Federal
Aviation Administration.
Each chute that clears the
shop is carefully inspected and
followed. All parachute packs
have individual records as to
their whereabouts when
packed when last used and
serial number. Through this
carding system the shop
always knows where any one
parachute is. Also each chute
carries a card listing the
names of the last packing rig
ger and inspector.
The process may seem
tedious but the checks and
re-checks are never too few
when dealing with parachutes.
Should any chute malfunction
occur both the FAA and
military authorities can im
mediately trace the problem
back to particular individuals
•responsible for the chute.
"With all the checks" said
Smith "parachuting is just
as safe as walking across the
street the only trouble
is go re
curbs."
Just as doctors have their
Hippocratic Oath to practice
their profession by riggers
also have a similar code to
live by. The "Riggers Pledge"
is a list of rules that riggers
must always keep in mind.
The responsibility and
consciousness needed in this
work is reflected by a sampl
ing of their code:
"I will keep constantly in
mind that until men grow
wings their parachutes must
be dependable."
"I will pack every parachute
as though I am to jump with
it myself and will stand ready
to jump with any parachute."
"I will always keep a whole
hearted respect for my voca
—18 Pages
liyliliill
with Sgt. Maj. A. W. Hawthorne 2nd
Armd. Div. sergeant major and Lt.
Col. Victor A. Cullen division provost
marshal revealed some guidelines to
uniform regulations. (U.S. Army Pho
to by Spec. 4. Theodore Ashton)
tion regarding it as a high
profession rather than a day-
to-day task and will keep in
mind constantly my grave
responsibility."
"I will be sure always."
The military rigger is not
a very wide-spread Army oc
cupation. It is estimated that
there are only between 800-850
such men packing chutes for
the Army world-wide. For
Smith the NCO in charge of
Ft. Hood's parachute shop
rigging was exposed to him
while undergoing training at
the Army's jump school at
Ft. Benning. Somene sug
gested riggers school and
Smith signed up for the three
month course.
"Since then" said Smith
"it's become a way of life.
Every time I pack a chute
I feel that I'm saving a life
(See RIGGER Page two).
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