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- ■1 l Change In Ea+eries —See Page 4 Crafts Contest Open to GIs — See Page 3 VOL 3, NO. 13 Issued Weekly at Camp Shanks, N. Y. Friday, August 3, 1945 K P CHORES EASED FOR TROOPS Oversea Policy Is Outlined Army Service Forces has butr lined its procedure for carrying out War Department policy on overseas service for qualifred. offr- cers and enlisted men in a mew circular which supersedes and con solidates previous directives on the subject. Provisions of the ASF circular will be accomplished by May 1. 1946. The effect of the order that \ail cjualifled officers and enlisted men without oversea service have the opportunity for such service ” will be strongly felt among officer per sonnel in Camp Shanks, according to authoritative sources, who point out that enlisted men will be little affected since jThost of those quali- — it'H t'i at serv ice have been replaced by those in exempt cate gories. Indications are that the officer shakeup will take place much before the May, 1946, dead line. Exemptions Specified Specifically exempted are those officers and .EM physically dis qualified, enlisted men who have reached their 38th birthday, and returnees with less than six months service in a duty assign ment in the United States. Re turnees will not be shipped over seas again as long- as qualified men without overseas service arc in the ASF. Exemptions for key specialists and critically needed specialists have been eliminated. The release of key personnel, however, is con tingent on the receipt, of qualified replacements and will be so sched uled that the operating efficiency of installations will not be im paired. To implement its. policy, ASF has ordered that all zone of interior positions be filled as rapidly as practicable by civilians, returnees, female military personnel, overage personnel and those physically dis qualified for overseas service. , ‘ Military Efficiency at Best ’ The following letter was received by Col. Harrie D. W. Riley, Commanding Officer of Camp Shanks, from a veteran Infantryman of the 36th Division: ^ July 22, 1945. Dear Sir : I would like to teke this opportunity to thank you for the way my buddies and myself were received at Camp Shanks. I was one of the first soldiers of the 36tb Inf. Division to reach Camp Shanks on the way to a separation cen ter. Upon arriving in Camp Shanks we were received most royally. Every sol dier of Camp Shanks did everything in his power to make our stay as pleasant as possible. The efficient manner in which every detail was carried out met with our hearty approval. We, the veterans of the ETO, saw military efficiency at its best. As a matter of fact there was very little room for improvement. Considering the work and details that had to be taken care of, I still marvel at how I got through Camp Shanks in 24 hours and still had time to drink a few beers On the train ride to Texas we often spoke to each other about Camp Shanks. That was one subject that we all agreed on. Sir, it is a pleasure to commend you on a job well done. Please convey my sentiments to those under your com mand. You have a right to feel proud of what you and yours have accom plished. I trust that the veterans who are still coming from Europe can have the pleasure of Camp Shanks ’ hospital ity. As for myself, I am one of the many soldiers who was discharged un der the point system. I am now a civilian and have been since the first of this month. — r ^ I have made many friends while in the Army. I will never forget them. I trust that. 1 can think of you. Sir, and your able assistants as my friends. Yours respectfully, }\ Augustus R. Crouch Houston 5, Texas Col. Riley Sums Up 3 -Year TC Record By T/4 MICHAEL G. SULIJVAN The prodigious, three-year accom- Muj. Gen. Charles of plishments ot the Transportation Corps, hustling infant of the Army Service Forces, were ’ dramatically outlined by Col. Harrie D. W. Riley, Commanding Officer of Camp Shanks, during ceremonies celq.- brating the third anniversary of TC at the post amphitheatre Tues day afternoon. Quoting a statement made by mmm mu HATPY BIRTHDAY, TC! Col. Harrie D. W. Riley, CO of Camp Shanks, delivers a talk on 3rd anniversary of Transportation Con**. P. Gross, Chjef of the Transportation Corps, upon his return from the Po'isdam con ference, Col. Riley revealed the following- amazing statistics: ,1. In the two months since R-Day, May 12, 636,000 troops have embarked from ETO ports for the U. S. and the ^Pacific. Of this number, more than half a million, 532,258 have debarked in the U. S. The remainder sailed straight to the Pacific. 2. From August until December of this year, more than one million troops will be returned to this country from the ETO. 3. The return home of the re maining 900,000 in the ETO slated to come back will be accomplished in the first four months of 19.46. 4. Since Pearl Harbor, more than- seven million soldiers have been shipped from the U. S. to foreign shores by the Transporta tion Corps. 5. From December, 1941, until June, 1.945, nearly 31 million troops were transported by rail in organ ized-groups in the United States. 6. The personnel of the Trans portation Corps numbers 400,000. of' which 300,000 ate military and 100.000 civilian. Preceding Col, Riley on the stage of the amphitheatre was Major Willard R. Young, Chief of the Adjutant Division, who read the {Continued on Pane Three) Hey Soldidr! Don ’ t Pass Up This Article! Proud of your old and present outfit, soldier? Does your'chest swell when the passing throng sees an insignia on your shirt arid glances again at you with new found respect? , Well, you won ’ t be getting those looks of admiration if you're not v/earing your patch. GIs stationed here now who ’ ve been overseas are entitled to sew the patch of their former outfit on the upper right sleeve. '' And all troops at Shanks must wear the Port of Embarkation insignia on the up per left sleeve. ' Incidentally, in passing, we might point out, too, that MP's will not permit any Station Complement troops to leave post if the insignia is not sewed an. Period. Germa PWsWill Do Work By CPL. EDDIE COHEN Household drudgery for Station Complement enlisted men will be lightened consid erably under a plan involving the fullest utilization of German prisoners of war as kitchen po- . lice, it was announced this week. The work-pian, as evolved by top executives of Station Complement and announced by Major Sol A. Maksik, went into effect on Wed nesday in the Area 6 mess hall. The release of essential . men for the performance of their primary duties during the height of the redeployment period was favorably received by all sections of Station \Complement; “ most of - which hod been previously hard hit by the old KP program. The latest solution of the kitchen police problem will not eliminate the chore entirely, it was stressed in the announcement. It was esti mated that personnel in the lower four grades, who have been bear ing the load, would be assigned to KP approximately once every two months rather than once a month as under the previous program. The tour of duty itself, however, will be shorter and as a genei*al rule will begin at 1800. Returnees Come First The flow of returnees will, of necessity, control the destiny of future KPs. German prisoner per sonnel will be usecT in place of Station Complement men it} the Area 6 mess hall only when 'avail able, and their ability will fluctu ate with the redeployment process. iNo estimate was given as to how many returnees would affect tbe situation, but it was reliably Stated that Station Complement men would be called upon to handle the pots and pans in their own mess only when returned troops took up more than one and one-half mess halls, requiring' the services of more PWs in the Disposition areas. • Sergeants and T/4s who have been used as checkers will con- ’ tinue to perform that duty with out being affected by the new set up. War Department regulations require their use in that job. Buy That Other Bond Now Foreign-Bred Mosquitoes Scoring a Winged Victory breeding T. S. Slip? Ail morning Eddie was grip- i fug. This was wrong. That was wrung. Everything was wrong. And Eddie told them. He told ' everybody. Then he went out. j When he came hack he was still bellyaching. \I almost forgot,\ Drew says I to him. “ There was a phone call wlille you were out. Call exten sion 29.' ’ “ Glaums 29, ” Eddie told the mouthpiece. A pause. A voice. “ — Whaddu ya mean, the Chap lain? — What can you do for me? — Oh. never mind. Wrong num ber. ” Traveling light — without dog tags, identification cards. Class A passes, or even a phony Form 7 -foreign- bred mosquitoes from nearby Rock land and Bergen counties are draw ing blood from sleepless Camp; Shanks GIs these dampish nights, around- mess ha!.I and PX screens Even our vigillant MPs can ’ t stop them. they catch any larvae near the barracks. DDT Gives. 'Em DTs DDT. the highly-publicized ki.lier of Pacific vgrmin, is being used here it was learned, but only Inner post security is as good as it can possibly be, according to Capt. Thomas Fitzgerald, Medical Inspector. Effective detection of mosquito-breeding pools^*ind coun- j ter-attacka by a civilian cfew un der Millard ‘ Crane, of the Sanita tion and Engineering section, have kept the local pests down to a minimum. It ’ s the foreigners, how ever. sometimes winging as many, as five miles to fill their blood banks, who have dorced many GIs to rustle up their mosquito nets or spend the night taking futile slaps at the buzz-bombera. In',self-protection, barracks dwell ers rife urged to spray their domi ciles each night and keep all doors and^screena tightly closed. More nature-minded, haen can also notify the Medical Inspector ’ s office If I as a deterrent to di.sease-bearing flies. A peculiar effect of the in secticide is that it does not kilt fenmedi i!.My but drives the fly crazy for several hours before it finally comes up with a ‘ death rattle. Thus far this year, the anophelpao (Continued on Hope Four) Found, One Shoe Found, _one shoe, low-cut, WAC, The editors of The Palisades have the above item in the Pub lic Relations Office, and in the best Cinderella tradition, will turn it over to the owner if she will call for it and try it on. The lonely brogan was picked up in South Nyack and turned over to a reporter for your favorite newspaper. . I * •-e.i. , .rLL SestufitieJA
