The Fort Hood Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 1, 1976 Page: 2 of 32
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P.C.S. Those three intials familiar to every
military family mean a lot of things besides
the standard military phrase “permanent
change of station.” They mean packing mov-
ing house hunting searching for schools for the
children leaving old friends and neighbors ex-
changing the familiar and comfortable for the
strange and unknown. They mean uprooting the
whole family lock stock and barrel and mov-
ing across the country or around the world.
They mean shots and shot records passports
packing cases furniture storage shipping
crates for the family pets and hundreds of de-
tails to be taken care of insure that ever-
ything and everyone gets to the appointed place
at the appointed time.
As you sit among the boxes and crates that
coitain the family’s worldly goods you may
feel that you’ve been handed a dirty deal that
nobody ever had it so tough. You would be very
very wrong.
The families of soldiers who made up the Con-
tinental Army had it much worse. In the begin-
ning when the enthusiasm for the idea of In
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dependence convinced the then cocky colonists
that their war against the English King would
be over in six months very few families
followed their men as they marched off to bat-
tle. Later though as the struggle for freedom
dragged on many wives and children packed
their few belongings and left their homes to
share the hardships and privations of the Con-
tinental Arm y’s cam ps. Soon George
Washington’s baggage trains were trailed from
place to place by these families. They had no
money. They had no medical care no schools
for the children little to wear and less to eat.
The lucky ones had wagons and carts or a pack
animal to carry their possessions. They lived
where they could as they could rarely seeing
the husband and father they followed but they
stayed simply to be near him.
In the wars that followed fought to protect a
hard won freedom the soldiers’ families rarely
had the chance to be with their men until the In-
dian War era of the 1800s. The cavalry “yellow
legs” patrolled the western plains from their
sin baked sand scoured isolated garrisons
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Here though things were still rough and social
niceties rare the soldiers’ families did follow
them. Their furniture was loaded into heavy
cargo wagons packed in and around supplies of
equipment and ammunition their dishes and
other fragile belongings stuffed into barrels of
flour the cWldren piled in on top of clothing
trunks pots and pans and they moved west.
Often broken wagons or lost draft animals
caused the family’s possessions to be aban-
doned beside the trail but still they came mak-
ing homes wherever they went with whatever
they had to be with their soldier.
Except in time of major conflict the soldier’s
family has followed him to remote stations all
over the world. Even while the nation was at
war forces stationed in garrison areas staging
ports training posts or debarkation stations
have been followed by their families. The
homes they had were often cramped poorly
furnished and usually far away from parents
and friends but they were homes. They proved
to the soldier that he was important was loved
and cherished by someone and served as an
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Today’s military family has it easy by com-
parison. There are guest houses and temporary
quarters available for them at most posts
throughout the world. Personal belongings
from the grandfather’s clock to the family
pooch are whisked away by the movers and ap-
pear not much the worse for wear at the new
address in a matter of days not months or
years as was usual in time gone by. There are
agencies to help the family move provide in-
formation on housing availability on the kind of
clothing needed at the next post help ranging
from money to advice and information pertain-
ing to the core of the “little things” that mean
the difference between an orderly move and
chaos.
P.C.S. It means that the Army stays alive and
fresh and never grows stagnant. Each new as-
signment means new enthusiasm new ideas a
fresh look at a problem an interchange of ex-
periences and knowledge that contributes to the
of the Army missions.
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Fort Hood Sentinel
Published in the interest of military and civilian personnel at Fort Hood. Texas every Thursday bv Bell Publismng
Company Tem ple Texas. Policies and statements reflected in the news and editorial columns represent views of the in-
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