Attention: Freshmen and Sophomore Cadets
Seven Army Service Forces Represented in ROTC Here
T ODAY’S installment concludes The Battalion discussion
series covering the various Army and Air Force branches
in which ROTC training is offered at A&M.
Freshmen cadets now taking first year military science
will have an opportunity to select their service and branch of
study at drill tomorrow afternoon.
This presentation has been published as a service to
our Freshmen cadet readers and to our Sophomore readers
in the process of deciding in what service and branch they
wish to take a contract—The Editor.
Army Service Forces
Corps of Engineers
T HE Corps of Engineers has a war time mission “to facil
itate the movement of our own troops and to hinder the
movements of the enemy.” Within this simply stated mis
sion operates one of the most important and complicated
branches of the Army. The Engineers also contribute great
ly to the combat effectiveness of troops by constructing and
maintaining such facilities as hospitals, field shower units,
and rest centers.
Officers in the Corps of Engineers have a never-ending
parade of projects before them, come war or peace. They
help to pick sites for new buildings, prepare plans and esti
mates, direct construction and repair of fortifications and
airfields, install and maintain utilities, make maps and sur
veys, and lay land mines. These are only a few of the many
Engineer projects.
In peace time, the Corps of Engineers also has many
continuing jobs such as maintaining and improving our
navigable rivers and harbors, protecting various communi
ties from floods, and increasing the use of water power.
These civil responsibilities, added to those which are purely
military in nature, make the Corps of Engineers unique
among the branches of the Army.
Students pursuing any course in engineering are permit
ted to enroll in the Engineer branch advanced ROTC at A.
and M. College, provided the course is approved by the Engi
neer Society for Professional Development. Civil engineer
ing or mechanical engineering courses are recommended for
students who plan to enter advanced ROTC in the Corps of
Engineers.
Signal Corps
T HE mission of the Signal Corps is to operate the Army’s
communications network; to do photographic work; to
develop, procure, and repair communications equipment and
weather forecasting equipment; and to furnish trained sig
nal troops to elements of the Army that maintains commun
ications, that is, message carrying activities, down to and
including division headquarters. In short, signal communica
tions in the Army are like the nerves of the body, nerves
that enable the entire Army or any portion of it to act as an
integrated unit.
Battalion Editorials
Page 2
TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1951
Right Choice
F RESHMEN Military science students must
make an important decision tomorrow
afternoon.
They will decide, for the most part, how
and in what capactiy they will serve their
country when called into the armed forces.
Cards will be distributed so that each
man may indicate his choice of service and
the branch he wishes to study within that
service.
There is a considerable tendency for stu
dents to choose a unit on the basis of its
Fight Crime
With Local Opinion
rrHE LATEST issue of U. S. News and
World Report devotes eight pages to an
interview with Senator Estes Kefauver. This
long interview gives a very interesting and
enlightening report of the findings and real
purpose of the Senate crime investigating
committee.
Senator Kefauver gives a good picture
of all the ways now used to prosecute big-
time gangsters. The same legal maneuver—
prosecution for income tax evasion—that
was used to break the big names back in
prohibition days is being used against the
national crime leaders today.
But time after time Senator Kefauver re
turns to the essential principle discovered by
the recent crime investigation—unless local
public opinion is aroused against crime, laws
can do no good.
The person who sadly cries, “What can
I, an ordinary powerless citizen, do to pre
vent organized crime?” should consider this
statement by Kefauver:
“If you go to a city where you have good
churches and schools and interest in govern
ment, you don’t have any big-time organized
crime.”
standing at A&M and according to the peo
ple who are to command it and live in it.
The imminence of military service today
makes evident the necessity for making a
right choice in the selection of a service and
branch of study. It was to encourage a
right choice that The Battalion yesterday
and today published a discussion of all mili
tary science courses offered at A&M.
That right can hardly be based on wheth
er a best buddy is going to be living in the
outfit, or on whether it is expected to win
some award next year.
The three years in a military unit at
A&M will seem short and unprofitable in
deed to the man who finds himself in a
field of military service unfitted to his tem
perament and training.
These freshmen will do well to read and
study carefully the mission and activities of
each of the courses of instruction offered.
They may profit by discussing their choice
of service and branch with their military
counselor or present military instructor.
It will be wise for each of them to care
fully consider how his personality and his
field of study will best fit into military ser
vice.
He might ask himself:
• How will I like commanding a tank
platoon or artillery unit, or being responsible
for aircraft maintenance, or communica
tions, or what have you?
• Will my course of study be profitable
to me when I am called in ?
• Will what I do in military service be
profitable to me when I return to civilian
life?
These questions, not “Roommate what
are you going to get into?” are the ones he
should ask himself.
Some active thought will produce a
choice that will make military service val
uable to the individual and the individual
valuable to his country in time of emergency.
The Battalion
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CLAYTON L. SELPH, DAVE COSLETT Co-Editors
John Whitmore, Dean Reed Managing Editors
Andy Anderson, Bob Hughson Campus Editors
Fred Walker Sports Editor
Joel Austin City Editor
Vivian Castleberry Women’s Editor
Today's Issue
Joel Austin
Managing Editor
Bob Hughson . ,
Campus News Editor
Fred Walker
... Sports News Editor
Allen Pengelly
City News Editor
T. M. Fontaine, Carter Phillips Editorialists
Leon McClellan, Jack Fontaine, Ed Holder, Bryan
Spencer, Bob Venable, Dale Walston. Bee Landrum,
Frank Davis, Phil Snyder, Art Giese, Cristy Orth,
James Fuller, Leo Wallace. W. H. Dickens, Fig
Newton, Joe Price. Pete Hermann. Wesley Mason.
B. F. Roland, Ivan Yantis. Sid Ragsdale. Bill
Aaberg, Ide Trotter, John Hildebrand. Chuck Neigh
bors, Bob Sejleck, JSill Streich, Curtis Edwards.
Howard Heard Staff ’Writers
Dick "Kelly Club Publicity Co-ordiaator
Allen Pengelly Assistant City Editor
Jimmy Ashlock, Joe Blanchette, Ray Holbrook. Joe
Hollis. Pat LeBlanc Sports Staff Writers
Sam Molinary, Bob Alderdice Staff Photographer
Sid Abernathy Page Make-up
Joe Gray Photo Engraving Shop Manager
Tom Fontaine. Johnny Lancaster, Charies McCullough,
R R. Peeples. R. D. W itter Photo Engravers
Autrey Frederick -Advertising Manager
Roissell Hagens, Bob Hayme Advertising Representatives
Doctor Draft
May Fill Call
For Medics
Washington, April 24—
(AP)—Twelve hundred doc
tors will be drafted into the
armed forces in July, August
and September unless volun
teers fill the gap in 10 weeks.
The Defense Department issued
a draft call yesterday for 1,202
priority one doctors. These are
medical men who have received
their scientific education at gov
ernment expense or were deferred
during World War II to attend
medical school, and who have
served less than, 90 days in the
armed forces.
The requisition will not be ne
cessary, the department said, if
enough doctors come in vqluntar-
?ly to meet the growing needs of
the Army, Navy and Air Force.
A draft call for 1,522 physicians,
dentists and veterinarians was is
sued last Oct. 10, but subsequent
volunteering made inductions un
necessary.
Twenty-one thousand medical
men of all categories registered
last October 16. They included
12,845 doctors, of whom 2,910 have
volunteered.
Enlisted Air Force volunteer re
servists (those who do not get
drill pay) were promised today re
leases from active duty after 12
months service.
Harold C. Stuart, assistant sec
retary of the Air Force, reported
to a House Armed Services Sub
committee the bulk of men in this
category will be released in Aug
ust if they do not wish to remain
on active duty.
For the time being, he said, the
Air Force plans to hold all its
reserve officer and airmen of the
Organized Reserve for the full 21
months of active service allowed by
law.
Stuart said nearly all the Air
Force Organized Reserve will have
been recalled to active duty by
July 1. Seventy-one per cent of
active Air Force officers today are
reservists, he said.
Open House
(Continued from Page 1)
take place. At 8:40, the Best
Drilled Sophomore Award will be
given in each unit. And five min
utes later, the commanding offi
cers will receive their apprecia
tion gifts from outfits.
The Cadet Corps will strut its
stuff before parents and guests at
9:20 on the Main Parade Ground.
Two hours later, a special program
honoring mothers and dads will be
gin in Guion Hall. Master of cere
monies will be David Haines. Roddy
Peeples will give the prelude, and
Ken Wiggins will supply the invo
cation. President M. T. Harrington
will then welcome the guests in
an address, followed by a talk en
titled “To Our Parents,” present
ed by Cadet Colonel of the Corps
DeLoach Martin. Allan Eubank
will then present the Aggie Moth
er of the Year.
Bill Turner is to direct the Sing
ing Cadets through a prepared se
lection, and Corps Chaplain Cur
tis Edwards will offer the medi
tation. Ken Wiggins will end the
program with a benediction.
Lunch will be supplied in Dun
can Mess Hall at 12:30.
The Awards and Merit Day
Program will begin at 1:30 p.
m. The Ross Volunteers, half
an hour later, will provide an
exhibition of precision drill on
the Main Drill Field.
From 2:30 until 4:30 p. m.,
President and Mrs. Harrington will
hold an open house reception in
their home. And at 3 p. m., the Ag
gie Band wdll furnish a concert
on the lawn in front of the pres
ident’s home.
Any student pursuing courses leading to a degree in en
gineering, electronics, or physics may be admitted to a
senior division Signal Corps ROTC unit by selecting and
completing one or more courses in electrical engineering as
requirements or electives prior to graduation. However, as
a second priority, the PMS&T may admit students pursuing
courses other than those mentioned above at his discretion.
Chemical Corps
T HE Chemical Corps is charged with the investigation, re
search, design, and development of chemical warfare
items. It is concerned with smoke and incendiary materials,
toxic gases, all war gas defense appliances, and all biological
warfare and radiological defense activities.
It furnishes advice to all elements of the Department of
Defense on chemical and biological warfare and radiological
defense. It is responsible for the supervision of training- of
the army in chemical and biological warfare and radiological
defense.
Ordnance Corps
T HE Ordnance Corps provides the Armed Forces of our
country with material for firepower and mobility—rifles,
machine guns, artillery, ammunition, tanks, and trucks.
Ordnance material ranges from time pieces to radar con
trolled automatic antiaircraft guns; from jeeps to ponder
ous tank transporters; from pistol cartridges to twenty ton
bombs, pyrotechnics, and guided missiles.
A large part of this type material used by friendly for
eign armies is supplied by the Ordnance Corps.
The Ordnance procurement program involves more ex
penditure of funds than all other Army services put together.
Ordnance research projects require millions of dollars an
nually. The handling of its material requires the Army’s lar
gest depot system.
Ordnance officers perform work closely related with
business and industry. They must be business men but the
technical nature of Ordnance Corps activities calls for an
engineering or scientific background.
Mechanical and industrial engineers particularly will
find a large amount of related work in the Ordnance Corps,
and all engineers, physicists, and chemists will find Ord
nance a fertile field in which to utilize their regular col
lege courses both before and after graduation.
Quartermaster Corps
O NE of the world’s largest business organizations, the
Quartermaster Corps supplies over 70,000 items to a
million men all over the globe; and in time of war this may
be expanded to 85,000 items to ten million men.
Quartermaster officers of outstanding executive cali
ber and sound business sense design, produce, test, and
supply clothing for every climate, food for every mealtime
situation, and petroleum products for all purposes. These
officers are at once merchants, importers, exporters, ware-
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house managers, purchasing agents, and expediters.
Activities of the Quartermaster are diversified to such
an extent that students majoring in any of the courses giv
en at this college can fit well into the regular or reserve es
tablishment upon graduation.
Transportation Corps
,NE of the youngest of all services, the Transportation
Corps, performs transportation functions for the Army-
and provide such transportation service to the Air Force or
Navy as may be agreed to jointly. Transportation officers
are the Army’s traffic managers as well as highway and_
railroad executives.
Constant improvement in the movement of men and
supplies throughout the world challenges the initiative, lead
ership, and ingenuity of transportation officers in command
or staff capacities, many of which are closely allied with
civilian occupations.
The academic courses which more nearly parallel thi§
type of work are industrial engineering and business admin
istration. However, no special academic course is necessary
for admission to this branch.
Army Security Agency
T HE Army Security Agency, a field agency of the Intelli
gence Division, has two broad interlocking functions.
These two functions are signal intelligence, which comprises
the production of intelligence from enemy communications,
and communication security, which comprises the protection
of information which might be derived by others from our
own communications.
To accomplish the mission of communication security,
the Army Security Agency is responsible for the preparation,
publication, storage, distribution, and accounting of all
crypto-systems employed by the Army; the development and
maintenance of cipher machines, the promulgation of com
munity security doctrine; the monitoring of friendly radio
traffic in order to detect and correct violations of communi
cations security; the inspection of cryptocenters; and the
surveillance of programs of cryptographic instruction.
Any major academic course is acceptable, subject to the
demonstration of necessary aptitudes for Army Security
Agency work.
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the hills, from whence cometh
my help. My help cometh from
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