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More Phones For Returnees — See Page 3 VOL 3, NO. 9 Issued Weekly at Camp Shanks, N. Y. Friday, June 29, 1945 GEN. KELLS NAMED NYPE HEAD Okay To Promote Few GIs By MySgt. GEORGE BERNSTEIN Gather round me, eager „ beavers, hear my story, which will relieve yers; feel ‘ some good hews, coming from me, the topic will be stripes, and then you'll have no gripes. 'Tis always a pleasure for your scribe to accentuate the positive — ly good news, and the occasion is right at hand. Provided vacancies are avail- ' able, promotions , are once again possible for all enlisted men on post whose allotment is received from the Chief of Transportation via the New York Port of Em barkation. There aren't too many vacancies — just a small number — and Port helped the situation along by providing some more rat ings which will fall to deserving GIs shortly. Lest you forget — and you doubt lessly need not be reminded — all promotions for Port men were blocked for a time while a survey was conducted on post of the num ber of troops assigned and the ratings distributed. Now, with the survey concli.ded and the windfall of a few extra grades provided, Major Albert F. Payton, Chief of the Personnel Division, has flashed the green light for promotions again — if vacancies are available. 2d Service Still Frozen But the red light, the unwelcome stop sign, is ‘ -stiW shining dourly for all troops here whose allot ments are drawn from Second Service Command under the bulk authorization system. The men af fected are on duty with Finance, Special Services, Signal, Public Re-, lations, Inforrpation and ' Educa tion, and Engineer Utilities. Second Service-.Command clamp ed the' \freeze ’ ’ pn promotions about two months ago, and there ’ s been, no hint whatsoever of when we can expect the thaw — even in all this hot weather. I n JFPw , A L I . 'V y- & r-l. 'J ' ■ ■--% V X. . X . 'iip ■ x : x. lx# \T' . L xx-X ir\ ...... ..... .... ................................................. _ — .............. HOME AGAIN! Vets of the 97th Division line the rails of the “ Marine Angel, ’ ’ jTir »t ship front Europe to bring returnees direct to Camp Shanks' Piermont Pier. Truck convoys rushed the men to camp where steak dinners, fresh uniforms and a show awaited them. Stories and other pictures on Page 4. U. S. Army Photo Colonel Riley Away Col. Harrie D. W. Riley. Com manding Officer, left Tuesday night for a Service Command conference at Camp Grant, 111. He is expected to return July 4. Col. John F. Landis, senior colonel on post, will be in command during Col. Riley ’ s absence. 6-Months Training Program Outlined By T/4 RICHARD E. REYNOLDS A new six-month training schedule for Camp Shanks Station Complement units, which will cover basic military subjects over a minimum of 78 hours of instruction — three hours per week for a 26- week period — will be effected Mon day) July 2. it was announced this week by 1st. Lt. B. W. Letson, Station Complement Train ing Officer. .Stressing orientation and dis mounted drill, the training sched ule, with the number of hours to be devoted to the particular sub ject, will include: Orientation, 26 hours; dismounted drill, 13 hours; ' physical condition ing, nine hours; military, courtesy and discipline, six hours (includ ing the regular reading of the Articles of War) ; training tests, six hours; first aid, four hours; interior guard - duty, three hours; personal adjustment, three hours; organization of the Army, one hour; and combat intelligence, one hour. Outdoors In Summer For the most part, the above subjects will be covered at a time best suited by the season and weather, said Lt. Letson. Physical conditioning and dismounted drill, therefore, are just around the cor ner, while such lecture-type courses as malaria control and first aid will probably come during the in clement Fall and Winter months. However, such subjects as mili tary courtesy and discipline and personal and sex hygiene will be spread over the 26 weeks. The training tests, which will be (Continued on Page Two) Turn 'Em In IT WAS QUIET when this picture was taken, but to this Informa tion Booth in Disposition Area 7 came 6,624 men of the 97th Infantry Division with their questions last week end. The booth, as well as the one in Area 6. was oonstrueted by the Post Engineers at the sugges tion of Col. Harrie D. W. Riley, Camp Shanks' conservation-minded Comma itding Officer, from a packing box used to crate a forestry truck destined for overseas. • - -J • < Thln-btobded station Comple- ment GI ’ s will just have to shiver through the summer without their comforters, ac cording to Capt. Charles E. Elton. Station Complement Sup ply Officer. The extra layers of warmth are now in the process of being recalled for the purpose of cleaning and reconditioning for those which need it, under a unit plan which will bring the last comforter into the Supply Room not later than July 19. They ’ ll be re-issued in the Fall, around the first hint of frost. Blankets will -continue to be cleaned each time an enlisted man goes on furlough, twice a year, as previously announced. New CG Is From West Coast Port Maj. Gen. Clarence H. Kells, for the past year Command ing General of the San Francisco Port of Embarkation, has been named Commanding General of the New York Port of Embarkation, it was learned this week. ' v ' He succeeds Maj. Gen. Homer M. Groninger, who for four years and eight months directed the war-winning activities of what the Army terms the Troops Begin Banging Bulls With 03 Rifle Elements of several Camp Shanks units this week began qualification firing on the Camp Smith rifle range with the- bullseye-pottlng slated to begin in earnest next week. Most male troops on post, excep ting TO units, are scheduled to fire the ’ 03 lor record on the Smith range and then move on to the carbine familiarization \ course • on the Camp .Blauvelt 1,000-inch range. Most of the GIs of the var ious QM Truck Companies, which comprise the bulk of the camp ’ s TO outfits, are sleted for carbine qualification with a few men also firing both the carbine and MI for record. The following is a list of '03 fir ing dates to be kep: at Camp Smith as scheduled by 1st. Lt. B. W. Let- son, Station Complement Training Officer: Monday, July 2 — MP 23, Tech nical Service, Headquarters Co. and QM. Friday, July 6 — MP 23, QM, ‘ Ordnance and Headquarters Co. Saturday, July 7 — Ordnance, MP 23T and Operations. Friday, July 13 and Wednesday \and Thursday, July 18 and 19 — Disposition Co. A, Operations, and Police and Prison. Carbine qualification dates are: Saturday, July 7, and Friday, _ July 13—3362 QM Truck Co. Wednesday and Thursday,- July 18 and 19 — 3366th QM Truck Co. Tuesday, July 24, and Saturday. July 28 — 3367th QM Truck Co. Monday and Tuesday. July 30 and 31 — 3368th QM Truck Co. “ This schedule is subject to change depending a great deal on the number of targets available daily at Camp Smith,\ warned Lt. Letson. “No section chiefs should take this schedule as final, al though it will be followed as close ly as possible, ’ ’ he added. For the record, and it is for the record, these are the scores needed to qualify: marksman, 130; sharp shooter, 160; and expert, 172. greatest Port of War the world has ever known. ” Gen. Groninger last week left NYPE to assume command of the San Fran cisco Port. 1 It is not definitely known when Gen. Kells will take over his new duties. Col. Hans Ottzen, present deputy for operations at Port, wiii head NYPE until Gen. Kells' ar rival. Possessing a wealth of exper ience and background in Army transportation procedures. Gen. Kells is ably equipped to face the HP1 Maj. Gen. Clarence 11. Kells task of speeding our homebound, victorious armies through NYPE for furloughs and for deployment against Japan. Headed ATS Gen. Kells ’ transportation exper ience began in August of 1944 when he was appointed Chief of the Army Transport Service — now the Water Division of the Trans portation Corps. The rapid de velopment of the ATS, which quick ly became one of the largest ocean transportation systems in history, was attributed to Gen. Kelts ’ imag ination, initiative and drive. He later was selected Executiv® Officer and then Chief of the Wa ter Division in the Office of th« CContinued on Page Two) Payday Tomorrow Gives New Chance to Get Bonds Rolling along to a high-paced. smashing finale, the Camp Shanks 7th War Loan Drive has passed the half-million dollar mark and bond buying military and civilian personnel of the Post bid fair, to reach a three-quarter million dol lar total. Tomorrow, Saturday, June 30, Is the final red Tetter day of the bond drive and, by a happy coin cidence, payday falls upon the same day, providing a last opportunity to buy another bond, that extra one that will help smash Japan. The next issue of the Palisades will carry the full story of the present War Loan Drive complete with the final figures. In the last week of the drive, Capt. Abraham Marcua, Post Sav ing ’ s Officer urged everyone to speed th e day of eventual victory by buying more bonds, today and tomorrow. How to Shorten the War “ The only way to defeat Japan, ’ * he said, “is to destroy her army and lay waste her productive povyer. ” Money obtained from the grow ing and continued sale of War Bonds is one iof the chief source^ of power behind the pulverizing blows directed against the land whose rising sun is fast being sot by the rising fury of American fire power. “ Camp Shanks has achieved an enviable record in this as in all previous bond drives, ” said Capt. Marcus. “ It can do more. “ The slogan should be, ‘ Buy bonds, buy more bonds, keep your, bonds, keep buying bonds! ’ ”
