European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 31, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes tuesday a 31 units keep troops rolling on Maneu vers fuel food and water keep the 28th inf div moving in the Garrison daring Field Maneu vers members of the 28th pm co pol Section Load gasoline cans on a truck at the 28th div he pol dump while milk is transferred from Boxcar to truck at a 7th army class 1 Supply Point for shipment to division units. At right the filter at Awater Supply Point is checked during a Field problem by sgt Lewis Rush lefti03d engr in wafer Supply Foreman and pvt Samuel Moore to insure a Supply of fresh water. Decker photos Large Complex Supply organisation necessary provide 28th inf of five wit by to Al modern infantry division 6" of a f organization Lii at of depends ii mobility to fur Nieft its striking Power. Day of failure to Supply gasoline alone to the trucks jeeps and tanks of a division could Slowe operation. Dainge Rousky. A. Sec Ond Day of Faure and $6,000,000 Worth of vehicles might be. Jjon the 28th Illif Liv where com Bat readiness is the goal of Eachl Day s operations ammunition equipment and clothing Are a " corded top role in division less important however is the role of the three Supply functions most often taken for. Granted food fuel and Weter. The immensity of. The problem and the need for constant prepare Toni is seen " in fuel Sta titties for past Field problems ,.i last Cample during seven Day Man Euver the pol. Oil and i Brj ants of the 2gtli pm co issued400,ooovgaupnsb� gasoline to the tend its attached units. Post /operations,.is/hiore than 230,000 gallon sin. Addition to the gasoline the pol sects fun May distribute from 500 to so Gallons of Oil and same number of pounds of lubricants a month the three Gas pumps at 28th inf div he in Goeppinger Normal by dispense about 30,000 Gallons of Jas per kerosene aviation Gas and die Sel fuel furnish additional distribution problems. ,.the troops is directly dependent a of an adequate sup ply of fuel. R ,.-,in Garrison trucks travel 275 Miles a Day three times a week drawing rations for the division. Cin Maneu vers the ration break Down requires 20 trucks a Darin. A single meal at a 28th Day mess Hall a Soldier will eat meat and potatoes from. Mannheim vegetables from Frankfurt milk Froni the Netherlands bread from Laid Wissburg and canned fruit Frohna Bollenbach " " although during Post operations each unit draws from a District Supply Point through its Post detachment in the event of an Alert the 28th div pm co would draw rations for the entire division. Food for an infantry division costs 522,000 a Day. When Cra tons in-l rations or the Indi Viduna Assa Talt packet is used the Cost rises accordingly ". R the Cost alone neces3itate.s a High degree of coordination but the Corporal who takes head count in the unit mess is the most important link in the ration Chain. An. Error or an arbitrary figure on his part would be used in the food service request for future rations be cattle in combat or during aged Man Euver too much or too Little food seriously the wrong hamper a timecard fully planned operation a constant Check is Trade by the 28th pm Section cios room briefs. Gay in Totis tank Center gives talk tank and fired the 76 and 90-mm tank guns on the Range after the graduation exercises. March 30 special maj Geh. James m. Gavin Vii corps live red the graduation a Dave s b j and presented plaques to honoured graduates from the tank leaders course at 7th army tank to aiming Center great i n tint a no it Virtu Otto " � Gaviri presented plaques to sgt Royva. Sylvester of to co 12th Iris regt for his outstanding Scho Lastic record and to 1st it Bruce a Ackerson of to co 351st inf regt who won the military stakes Competition. It col Thomas. J Murphy com mandant of the Center presented Gavin with an to honorary diploma. And conducted Hini the cough the training Center g Paivi n drove both the medium and Light a Liesheim March 30 special tie 71st Ord in marked the fourth anniversary of its reactivation decently. A Rith a review and recreational activities. Parade participants were he t Ett list ? Rte Chi depot co 546ui Ord Mam co and representatives from the 8th, 223, 537tli, and 556th Ord my co in a Brief address to the Battal Ion jul col Chester n. Rees 71st co., spoke of the varied missions that the Bat tall ii had carried since its be activation and predicted even Tot go re Obs ahead. However lie said Tarn confident this Bat Talion will continue to do an our standing Job As the years Roll originally activated As the 1st in of the 35th pm regt in ? May 1936,it was later reorganized As the test Ord in. During world War ii the e Battali ii served. In Normandy Northern France a Rhineland Ai Rennes Alsace and Central Europe campaigns it was deactivated in november 1945." the battalion was reactivated in March 1949iatzicndorft and assigned to support of the 1st if div. In april 1951 it was reassigned to 7th army and attached to the 47th or dip in May 1951 it moved to iia. Present location at Ille Shein Holland addresses intelligence my grads Oberammergau March 30 special Brig Gen Jeremiah , Usa Keur Provost Marsh Ali was guest speaker at graduation exercises for 206 students of the Usa eur intelligence and Baitary police school. Winning top Scholastic honors were. Cpl Stanley m. Goldstein of the 502d my co 2d army div inthe my course and Cpl Max t. Gould jr., of the 480th Cid West Ern area come in the criminal investigation course. 127 Complete training in ordnance subjects Eschwege March 30 special a total of 127 students were graduated from seven courses in two commencement e x e r c is e s con ducted at the Usa eur ordnance school Here. R the students completed suppl specialist class no. 115 motor in Spector. Class no 28 parts identification class no. 4 motor sergeants class no. Ill wheel vehicle repairman class no 113 Light artillery repairman class no. 68,and wrecker crewmen class no. 28. M sgt John f. Eganhouse of the 70th of i co was highest ranking student u. Water Supply presents its own Peculiar problems. Water for drinking cooking and shaving is furnished by the Engineer water Supply Section. Normally the four water units of the Section one assigned teach regimental combat team pro Duce about 10,000 Gallons a Day. One unit however with three 3,000-gallon tanks four pump Sand a filter is capable of Supply ing a maximum of 30,000 Gallons of purified water each 24 hour from a contaminated Stream. Under the direction of the Engineer battalion s4 and the immediate supervision of a water Supply Foreman the 12-Man Sec Tion is responsible for finding purifying and if necessary rationing water. Another water Supply Point is operated separate from the Engineer Point by the quartermaster company for its laundry and Bath units. The Bath units can pump 50 Gal Lons a minute to Field weary troops and tie laundry can Wash 150-180 pounds of clothing in a hour. Their use in a Field Situa Tion requires a constant Survey of the water problem. Based Tagbo in Over Quiberon March 30 z based personnel set a unloading record last week in the latest Over the beaches exercise they transferred 916 tons of cargo from ship to Shore in one Day. It col Gordon d. Cornell dirt Stor of the exercise and co at Mobile support of the 7703d m port called Oder 10" one of the smoothest exercises of the favored by exceptionally sex missionary trades Atlas for med Book schwe1nfurt, March 30 Spe Cial a Globe trotting missionary turned Supply clerk Hen is hang ing up his Rand Mcnally and re turning to Gray s Anatomy this month at the University of Utah rotating Home for Cpl Raymond c. Weaver assistant Supply clerk in co of 2d in i inf regt who said Goodby to Australia s Sydney Harbor Bridge cow do you like our Arf two Bridge two years ago whee i was greeted by his government a army service. Preached in Australia Weaver a missionary in the i Mon Church four years ago it paid his own Way to where he preached before be tog called into the service in 1951at missionary there he served Irr Sydney and in the Island state Tasmania. B before entering the army had attended premed Al school the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. He intends to reims to his studies under the Korea a Fec Erans Bill of he gift Back to the starting Point of i travels. Two be units get safety award trophies theme heaven March 30 Cial two safety trophies we awarded recently by col it Magill Bremerhaven port Mander to be Del of and base port office for having the safety record for a Sfx-0 period. " the trophies Are awarded annually to the troop unit and to port operating division that & attained the Best safety record a six month period scrambled eggs a la shape pfc Eugene Sochor checks on 39 different Hinds of Caps sir than 250 top officers from 13 countries attending the Rand Post exercise at shape. The headgear most of a pfc longed to generals and admirals was splashed with All Watt thicknesses of Gold Brssi and Leaf trimmings. Shape my hoary news m
