European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 23, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Bull session on replacements they should be taught that most fighting is Only scouting and patrolling on a Large training for according of veterans in should be a hell of a lot More realistic and a of a lot More by William Regan yank Field correspondent with the 88th division in ought learn them Guys is the favorite beef you hear from combat veterans when they talk about replacements who have just joined their like Vicenzo a Rifle platoon sergeant in the 350th feel that replacements should get More training in night i know they get night Marino but they dont get they ought to be made to see that almost everything they do Over Here will be done at they should know How to move up on reliefs in the line arid How to go into new and they should get More training on night patrols and How to see and listen on outpost when its pitch they should know How to do at night every Damn thing they do in roman Klein of a Rifle platoon sergeant in marinos added that while most replacements have had enough scout ing and they should be taught that most in big Only scouting and patrolling on a Large he would help not just on patrols but every minute there at the front because Page 8 they would automatically take advantage of All cover and concealment they always be Alert and watch where there somebody pointed out that a scouting and patrolling problem was usually a favorite time for a trainee to pick out a Nice quiet spot for a couple of hours id take care of snapped id have the problems last two or three Days and the patrols scrounge for their food and id give them maps and make them reach certain Points where rations and water would be another thing Klein mentioned was that the average replacement Doest know enough about the weapons an infantryman he usually knows enough about one or two Klein but he should know them he May know How to use and take care of the my or car but if you need a Barman or machine gun Ner Quick youre up a William Cashman of chief of a Small arms agreed that most replace ments dont know enough about their weapons How to use them and How to take care of when the Small arms come in for Cash Man All that most of my men can find wrong is that they need cleaning and every replacement ought to know How to clean and Fields trip every Small one recent re placement asked Cashman How to Load his and he was on his Way up to the a lot of replacements Are trained with the 03 and never see the my until they hit a line outfit in put in t5 George Brooks of Phila a member of the Small arms and the gis Arent the Only ones who dont know their i remember the look on one lieutenants face when he came Back from patrol and found out that the Tommy gun he was carry ing was missing a firing pin combat veterans should be returned to the states to train in the opinion of Albert Waidelich of a Rifle company Supply and Guys on cadre should be shipped overseas to do some of the he in not saying that to get Home because it will be some time before in but i know what in talking i was a cadre Man three years in the for very few of the men training replacements at Camp Roberts had been in com the Only ones i remember were a couple of Fellows who had been at Anzio for five Days before being wounded and sent and two others who came Back from fighting japs in the gis sent Home on rotation would be a lot More valuable As with All Treyve than if they were sent Back to Vernon Martin of a 60rrim mortar Man with the 349th regiment during the push from the Garigliano took a crack at the by the numbers systems of training employed in replacement training they taught us to drop a Shell in with the right hand from the right Side of the he and that was the Only Way they let us do when i joined the 88th last i found the Best Way for me to feed by the left hand from the right Side of the Martins criticism is an Oft heard one like other combat the Kentucky redhead feels that dry runs Are overworked and that in some cases they hinder operations because some men cannot quickly adapt themselves to Field sex Walter Roehrkasse of who drives an ambulance and weapons Carrier for the 313th medical complained about inadequate Battle he joined the 88th As a replacement just after the May 11 offensive opened and served As a litter bearer in the push to when i came Over i thought All of Italy was a he i figured it was dangerous everywhere All the not just in areas very close to the Roehrkasse put another twist on the need for More night he pointed out that the like the operate chiefly at in he medics should practice More night evacuation of wounded and especially blackout driving Over poor Roger Milot of a Rifle company communications suggested that All infantrymen should know some thing about that one of the most important things in running a he but the Doest allow enough equip ment and you cant find enough men who know anything about running a radio or i have to train my own but when something happens to your communications Man you play hell getting another George Measer a 19yearold former machine gunner from would have More fir staid training and instruction for conduct under the company medic cant be everywhere when the stuff starts he and if everyone knew More about first Aid some lives and a lot of arms and legs might be and there should be some Way to give re placements a preview of what its like under Shell few bygones sailing Over their Heads and hitting in a nearby Impact area might do i remember my first time i  Tell an incoming Shell from one going and i didst know whether to stand hit the dirt or of i soon a lot of Guys get hit before they have that somebody remarked that since the time for training replacements is limited to 17 to 21 the period might have to be lengthened to include All these but that was solved give them less Garrison training and More practical work under Field Marino if you Cut some of the Clos order manual of sex morality military articles of War and a lot More stuff that Doest help in combat there be plenty of time left to give replacements training in things that might some Day be the difference Between life and