Armored Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, June 17, 1960 Page: 2 of 12
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Published in ibe interest ol the military ana civilian personnt. ai curt Hood.
Texas every Kriday by the Temple Sales Circulai Company iemple. lexas.
Policies and statements reflected in the news and editorial columns represent
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Capt. Richard A. Larson
cently joined Headquarters Com
pany 37th Armor 2d Armored
Division after attending the ar
mor school at Fort Knox.
Box 419. Temple. TeaiM
re- 149th ORD. CO. NAMED BEST
UNIT IN 185th ORDNANCE BN
The 149th Ordnance Company
has been named best company
of the 185th Ordnance Battalion
for May. It's the fourth consec
utive time the unit has received
the award.
Lt. Col. Lionel A. Malsbury
battalion commander presented
the plaque to Capt. Louis Wins-
man Jr. commander of the 149th.
A Minuteman Award recently
went to Company C 51st In
fantry 2d Armored Division for
its percentage of 76 in the pur
chase of savings bonds. Lt.
George Robinson company
commander accepted the award
for his officers cadre and train-
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Manager
Advertising
Killeen Representative
Billy Will Never
Be President
It wasn't your fault soldier.
We're sure that it happened just
the way you and the witnesses
said it happened. Billy ran from
behind a parked car and you
couldn't stop in time. Billy
dead.
We don't blame you Billy's
mother and I. Perhaps if you
had been thinking that is was
summer vacation and the young
sters were not in school per
haps if you had been driving
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had a grand aggregate of 2605-
89X out of a possible 2700 to
eclipse the old record of 2603
set in 1956. Blankenship's score
however was 2650-123X. The win
ner also won the National Mid
winter Pistol Matches individual
championship with a grand ag
gregate of 2649.
Service ammunition was used
in the Army matches and com
mercial ammunition in the Na
tional Midwinter.
In placing second Horton
earned himself a niche in the
select circle of American
marksmen who've exceeded
the 2^00 point mark— "the
four-minute mile" of pistol
shooting. He has been parti
cipating in Army competitive
shooting for four years.
Horton was also a member of
the winning Fourth Army team
at Fort Benning. He shot a score
of 287 His team mates and their
individual scores were Sgt. Har-
land Rennolds 290 SFC Henry
Weinbrecht 288 and Major Ken
neth P. Dunn 275. All are mem
bers of the Advanced Marksmen-
ship Detachment Headquarters
Fourth Army with the exception
of Sergeant Rennolds who is from
Fort Bliss.
Team captains for the Clover-
leaf shooters was Capt. Paul
Bloxom Fort Bliss while the
team coach was M-Sgt. Thomas
Cook member of the Advanced
Marksmanship Detachment
NO CLOUDS IN YOUR SKY WITH A
USED CAR FROM KRANER MOTOR CO
slower below the speed limit.
Except for the awful reality
that it "did happen the accident
was impossible. Billy and his
horse Thunder were on their way
to get help for a wagon train
under attack by Apaches but
you couldn't know this nor could
you see the pursuing Indians.
You were driving today. Billy
at the moment he died was liv
ing a hundred years ago.
He had almost won through to
the fort and the colonel of cav
alry by some intuition was ex
pecting him and had made a
sandwich and poured milk. But
he didn't 'make it. He died un
der the wheels of an impossible
intruder from another age.
But it wasn't your fault. In
deed a part of our hopeless sor
row is for you. We did not hear
his scream nor feel the crush
ing impact of his body against the
car. We were spared the panic
and horror you must have known
when you realized you could not
stop in time. And we know that
you must a thousand times re
live the moment your car killed
our son over and over again
as long as you live. We grieve
for you.
Billy's mother and I of course
grieve most of our future. Billy
was our future you know. He
was to do the things I was never
able to accomplish—play fullback
for Texas A&M become a doc
tor President of the United
States. Now Billy will never be
President.
It wasn't your fault soldier.
But Billy's mother and I look
at the now empty years of our
future without Billy and feel
hopelessly as one with all old
broken things.
(This is fiction the product of
a fearful parent's imagination
But it is true in substance. Thou
sands of school children will be
killed and maimed -by automo
biles during the next several
months. It is an inescapable
moral obligation of Fort Hood
drivers to exercise extreme care
during the coming summer
months to make a in
that this editorial does not be
come a true story at Fort Hood.
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THE ARMORED SENTINEL FORT HOOD TEXAS
Bcti
The USA Advanced Marksman
ship Unit's SFC Antonio Miranda
became the Army's 1960 idividual
rifle champion when he fired a
blazing aggregate score of 992-87V
out of a possible 1000 points in
seven matches. The new cham
pion shattered the standing record
for the course—979-102V. In sec
ond place was the AMU's Sgt.
Raymond E. M. Campbell with
989-72V while Sp4 Willie Jordan
of the USAREUR team placed
third with 989-93V.
Rifle—The winner of the off
hand championship was the
AMU's SFC Robert McCaullev
with 198-12V. USARADCOM's Sp4
Michel Dunia followed with 198-9V
and Fifth Army's 1st Lt. Donald
K. Schessler took third.
Rifle—Individual rapid fire
championship was won by the
AMU's 1st Lt. Willis Powell
with 399-34V. Second and
third places were won by the
AMU's MSGT Alfred O'Neill
and Sfc. Miranda with 399-33V
and 399-26V respectively.^
Rifle—600 yard championship-
won by Third Army's Sp5 Edwin
Howell with 398-53V. Sgt. Miranda
took second with 397-49V and Fifth
Army's SFC Bryant Shuler won
third with 396-59V.
Editor)
Pistol-Service pistol slow fire
match—20 shots at 50 yards won
by the AMU's SFC William B.
Blankenship with 194-5X. In sec
ond place was USARAL's Sgt.
Merriweather Jones with 192-7X
and in third was SFC William
Horton of Fourth Army with 192-
5X.
Pistol-Service pistol timed
fire—20 shots at 25 yards-
won by Sgt. Blankenship with
199-12X followed by Third
Army's SFC James Dean with
199-11X. Third place went to
Major Kenneth Dunn of
Fourth Army 199-9X.
Pistol—Service pistol rapid fire
—20 shots at 25 yards—won by
Sgt. Ralph Beal of USAREUR
with 198-3X. Second place was
taken by Second Army's Sp-4
James Bratcher with 197-11X and
Sgt. Blankenship placed third with
197-9X.
Pistol—Sendee pistol national
match course—won by Sgt. Blank
enship with 293-16X. USAREUR's
Cpl. Elgin P. Carter took second
37th Armor Unit Trainees
Score 92.5 In AIT Test
Trainees of Company C 37th
Armor 2d Armored Division re
cently scored a 92.5 on the Ad
vance Individual Training Profi
ciency Test.
Two men Pvt. Robert C. Col
lins and Pvt. Jere L. Lindstrom
finished the test with a 100 per
cent average. Pvt. Charles D.
Carkhuff received a certificate
and Letter of Achievement and
the company expert gunner's tro
phy for his work in the tests and
Pvt. Melvin S. Clay received a
certificate for the highest possi
ble score on the gunner's practi
cal examination.
Company is commanded by
Lt. Leo A. Ardizzione.
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THRIFT SHOP—Lawnmowers baby cribs and back yard barbecues were among scores of items
that could be found this week in the Fort Hood Thrift Shop. The shop sponsored by the Offi
cers' Wives Club will try to resell almost any article submitted by military personnel.
SFC Miranda Wins Army's
1960 Rifle Championship
with 289-11X and in Third was
Capt. Richard A. Decatur with
289-4X.
Gen. Sutton To
Address NCO
Academy Grads
Brig. Gen. William J. Sutton
assistant division comander 90th
Infantry Division will address
graduating students of the Fort
Hood NCO Academy today (Fri
day) at 1 p.m.
The graduating class will be
composed of 90th Infantry Divi
sion Reservists. Approximate
ly 120 students will receive diplo
mas from the Academy's Leader
ship School and another 90 will
graduate frtim the Ordnance
School.
The special classes are part
of a program which will send
more than 500 Reservists and Na
tional Guardsmen from the Fourth
U. S. Army area to the Fort
Hood Academy this summer
Units receiving the special train
ing besides the 90th are the 49th
Armored Division and the 36th
Infantry Division both of Texas.
Gen. Sutton who has been co
ordinating the work of his men
attending the academy as well
as assisting with the command
of the rest of the 90th now train
ing at North Fort Hood will
present honor graduate certifi
cates to the top three graduates
of each class.
Gen. Sutton entered the mili
a vi in 1 9 2 6 a
served in every component of the
Army as a private and corporal
in the National Guard and as an
officer in the active Army and
the reserve. His decorations and
awards include the Silver. Star
the Bronze Star with Oak Leaf
Cluster the Purple Heart the
ETO Campaign Medal with three
battle stars the Combat Infantry
Badge and the Distinguished
Marksman Badge.
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Thrift
Shop
News
Persons interested in buying a
pair of ice skates an officer's
dress uniform short wave radio
or refrigerator this week could
find all four items at the Fort
Hood Thrift Shop. And at bar
gain prices too!
For a 10 per cent commission
the shop will sell just about any
thing except firearms.
The shop is run by volunteers
and sponsored by the Fort Hood
Officers' Wives Club. The com
mission on items sold goes into a
fund that is often used for such
things as purchase 'of curtains
for hospital wards toys for hos
pitalized children and baseball
uniforms for little leaguers.
The shop will try to resell any
article submitted by military per
sonnel.
Eight volunteers currently are
working in the shop. More are
needed.
The shop is located in Build
ing 2209 on Headquarters Ave
nue. Hours are 10 a.m-2 p.m.
Wednesday Thursday and Fri
day and the first Saturday of
every month.
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Saturday June 18th. Registration begins
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Saturday June 18th. Be Sure To Register!
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Register for your unit too—Win a YAZOO
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Hood Units
Fight Belton
Brush Fire
Teamwork by two units fromj^
Fort Hood this week helped calm|port
All together some 50 men two
helicopters two tractors and sev
eral radio equipped jeeps from
Fort Hood were engaged in the
battle. The military disaster team
worked side by side with the
Killeen Fire Department Texas
Highway Patrol and Civilian De
fense personnel.
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Beach Combers
Cabana Sets
Swim Wear
Swim Wear
Bermudas
Friday June 171960
Because of the intense dark
gray smoke that clouded the area
the civilian firemen were unable
to find the source of the fire.
The Army helicopters quickly
located the inferno and the huge
tractors began to cut paths
through the brush to break up
the fire's route. In less than two
a(ter the Fort Hood
arrived)
a raging brush fire that threat-(der control.
ened to engulf four homes north
of Belton Lake.
Alerted by the Killeen Fire
Department a fire crew from
Combat Command A 1st Ar
mored Division combined forces
with the 46th Engineer Battalion
Monday afternoon to stop a fire
that had spread over more than
200 acres.
FATHER'S DAY IS JUNE 19th
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Brush Sets
Traveling Kits
Men's Toiletries
the blaze was un-
Working with the Combat Com
mand A was Capt. Richard D.
True Lt. Rodney S. Beasley and
Capt. William D. Ray. SFC Willie
J. Thomas headed the operators
of the tractors from the 46th En
gineer Battalion—SP-4 Crayton
Whaley and PFC Russell Pyle.
Jose Sastre-Cintron Company
"C" 1st Cavalry (CC"A") was
promoted to Private First Class
last week.
Lt. Charles W. Philipp is new
communications officer for 67 th
Armor 2d Armored Division. He
was a platoon leader in Com
pany C.
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