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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 9, 1952)
Pag Fo Gil Tm take pion for food Di culti Dep; Gro\ ricul said, Outline Work Military Explains What Is What in Branch Training In a short time freshmen who were in the corps during the summer will be called upon to make their choice of units and branches of military service. The following information on the various branches was prepared by the military science department. They have also warned the men to select a branch they want to serve in, rather than get into a branch because of short range glamour points. Infantry The Infantry is an arm of close combat. In attack it closes with the enemy and destroys or captures him; in defense it holds its position ' and repels the hostile attack. Infantry weapons are rifles, bayonets, automatic rifles, machine guns, mortars, carbines, pistols, grenades, light antitank weapons, recoilless rifles, flame throwers, and tanks. Although the combined coordinated action of all arms and services is essential to success, the role of the Infantryman is still decisive— the efforts of the other arms and services are designed to facilitate his success. Infantry fights by combining fire, movement, and shock action. By fire, it inflicts losses on the enemy and neutralizes his combat .power; by movement, it closes with the enemy and makes its fire more effective; by shock action, it completes, the destruction of the enemy in close combat. It must utilize the t^vrain intelligently to attain maximum fire effect, to conserve personnel, to conceal movement, and to facilitate the maneuver and employment of reserves. The Infantry officer is the key to success in battle. The dis- . pprsion of troops caused by the influence of modern weapons makes control more difficult and accentuates his importance. Leading troops in combat, regardless of the echelon of command, calls for cool and thoughtful leaders with a strong feeling of the great responsibility imposed on them. Infantry officers serve in staff and command posi tions in Infantry, Airborne, and Armored divisions. Those who aspire to be Infantrymen must realize that they are accepting the position of greatest danger and physical and mental demands in time of war. There can be no selfish personal motives for a man electing to serve as an Infantryman. (The experience of planning for and leading men is incidetal). He must be motivated •by the realization that this, the most difficult and dangerous job in war, must be accomplished for national success and that the very highest order of personal performance is necessary to that end. A man should not voluntarily ally himself with the Queen of Battles unless he is convinced that his country is worth dying for, if need • be; nor, if he doubts his own ability. Armor Armor has assumed the historic cavalry role in modern war and is primarily an arm of offense with characteristics and capabilities de signed for that role. It is an arm of mobility, armor-protected fire power, and shock action. It uses its mobility in exploitation of combat successes, in pursuit of a fleeing enemy, in seizing objectives deep in enemy rear areas, in reconnoitering over broad frontages, and provid ing depth and a wide radius of action to lead, accompany, or support infantry in the penetration of enemy defenses, and to destroy enemy counter attacks. It utilizes its shock action to close with and destroy the enemy. Armor is massed in close cordination with other arms and is supported by the tactical air force. The weapons of armored units include tanks, self-propelled guns Counterproposal Rejected By UN, Airfields Argued and howitzers, machine guns, mortars, rocket launchers, submachine guns,, carbines, pistols, rifles, bayonets, automatic rifles and grenades. Of these, the tank is the principal weapon. Army ground reconnaissance usually is performed by light ar mored units which employ rapidity and flexibility of movement, com munication facilities, and fire power. The capabilities of light armored units include both distant and close ground reconnaissance, counter reconnaissance, seizing and holding critical terrain features for a limited time, march and battlefield security, flank security, combat liaison, and delaying and harassing action. Field Artillery Field Artillery is the combat arm which influences battles by its ability to place devastating, concentrated fire power on the enemy. Field Artillery units supports infantry and armor whenever they en- Army security Agency gaged with the enemy. Field Artillery units in today’s Army are equipped with weapons ranging from the light 75mm howitzer to the giant 240mm gun. Highly developed fire control, communication, and transportation equipment enable the trained artilleryman to employ these weapons with max imum effect. training of Army personnel in biological and chemical warfare (offen sive and defensive) and radiological defense; and manufacturers chemical munitions and agents. Some Chemical Corps troops perform combat functions—4.2 inch Chemical Mortar Battalions and Smoke Generator Companies. In gen eral/the tactical mission is to assist field forces by means of chemical operations which cannot be performed satisfactorily by other troops. Through a study of the Chemical ROTC courses the student pre pares himself to function as a unit gas officer, supply officer, platoon leader, company commander, administrative officer, staff officer, property officer, chemical officer, munitions officer, fire direction of ficer, storage officer, inspector, chemical research engineer, and in telligence officer. The effectiveness of artillery of the future will be greatly en hanced when weapons now under development are perfected. Guided missies and atomic artillery will permit destruction of enemy forces hundreds of miles behind the battle lines, expanding tremendously the traditionally powerful role of Field Artillery. Corps of Engineers In the strict military sense the Corps of Engineers has the mis sion of increasing the combat power of our field forces by facilitating the movement of our own troops and impeding that of the enemy. This definition, however does not begin to describe the many jobs done by the Corps of Engineers in an active theater of war, to say nothing of the works performed for both the Army and the Air Force within our countries borders or of the various public im provements assigned by acts of Congress. Because of the all inclusive nature of his work, the engineer is required to become equally as proficient with the weapons of the infantryman as with the tools and machinery of the engineer. These purely military responsibilities coupled with the civil responsibilities such as flood control and the maintenance and improvement of the countries navigable rivers and harbors, make the Corps of Engineers unique among the branches of the Army. Enrollment in the ROTC advanced course, Corps of Engineers is restricted to those students working toward an engineering or scien tific degree, with civil engineering being particularly desirable. Chemical Corps The Chemical Corps is one of the technical services of the Army which operates directly under the Assistant Chief of Staff for Logistics, G-4. It is charged with the investigation, research, design, development, and supply of all chemical warfare items. The Chemical Corps is responsible for procurement and supply of Chemical Corps equipment for the entire Army. It furnishes advise to all elements of the Department of Defense on chemical, biological warfare, and radiological defense; analyses and disseminates information on foreign chemical, biological, and radiological developments and activities; trains chemical staff officers and Chemical Corps troop units; supervises The Army Security Agency, a field agency of the Intelligence Division, has two broad interlocking functions. These two functions are (1) signal intelligence, which comprises the production of intelli gence from enemy communications, and (2) communication security, which comprises the protection of inforation which ight 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, stor age, distribution, and accounting of all cryptosystems employed by the Army; the development doctrine; the monitoring of friendly radio traffic in order to detect and correct violations of communication se curity; the inspection of cryptocenters; and the surveillance of pro grams of cryptographic instruction. Any major academic course is acceptable, subject to the demon stration of necessary aptitudes for Army Security Agency work prior to enrollment as an advanced Army Security Agency ROTC cadet. Ordnance Corps The Ordnance Corps has as it’s mission the provision of ordnance sexwice and ordnance material required for the army and, as assigned, for the navy and the air force. Broadly speaking, ordnance material consists of small arms and automatic weapons; artillery (field, anti aircraft, and mortars); first control equipment (used mostly with artillery)); both optical and electronic, ammunition and explosives; bombs and explosive mines; transport and combat vehicles, army light aircraft; rockets and guided missiles; mobile repair shops; and parts, accessories, and materials, and equipment pertaining to this materiel. Ordnance service is performed by skilled technicians, (enlisted men, officers, and civilians) trained in ordnance schools and training centers to assist other branches of the army in technical use and maintenance of ordnance materiel. Ordnance technicians perform all of the more complicated maintenance and repair services on ordnance materiel. Ordnance has in this country some 80 installations and activities engaged in, research, testing, purchasing, manufacturing, issuing, or maintaining ordnance materiel. In addition to military personnel, over 100,000 civilians, scientists, technicians, and skilled workers are em ployed in these establishments in peace time. The ordnance procure ment program involves more expenditure of funds than all other army services put together. Ordnance research projects require millions of dollars annually, much of it is spent at technological colleges and civilian research institutions. The handling of its material requires the army’s largest depot system. Ordnance officers perform work closely related with business and industry. They must be businessmen but the technical nature of Ordnance Corps activities calls for an engineering or scientific back ground. Quartermaster One of the world’s largest business organizations, the Quarter master 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 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, im porters, exporters, warehouse managers, purchasing agents, and ex pediters. The activities of the Quartermaster are diversified to such an ex tent that students majoring in any of the courses given at this col lege can fit well into the regular or reserve establishment upon grad uation. Signal Corps The mission of the Signal Corps is to operate the Army’s com munications network; to do photographic work; to develop, procure, and repair communications equipment and weather forecasting equipment and to furnish trained signal troops to elements of the Army that quire them. Technically, it is that part of the Army that mainta^F communications, that it, message center activities, down to and in cluding division headquarters. In short, signal communications 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. Any student pursuing courses leading to a degree in engineering, 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 grad uation. However, as a second priority, the PMS&T may admit students pursuing courses other than those mentioned above at his discretion. Transportation Corps The Transportation Corps, one of the youngest of all the services in the Army, has the mission of directing, cordinating and supervision all transportation functions for the Department of the Army and of providing such transportation services or assistance to the Department of Air Force as may be agreed to jointly. Modern warfare on a global scale together with necessity for greater mobility makes even more important the capacity to trans port in relationship to the conduct of strategic and tactical operations. Transportation Corps personnel operate ports of embarkation, debarka tion, inland and coastal waterways, aerial ports in which the Army has primary interest, highway and rail facilities as well as transpor tation helicopter companies. Transportation movement control agencies regulates a systemtatic flow of personnel and supplies from the Uni ted States to our military units in the field. Constant improvement in the movement of men and material throughout the world challenges the initative, leadership and ingen uity of transportation officers in command and staff capacities, most of which are closely allied with civilian occupations. The academic courses which more nearly parallel the mission of the Transportation Corps are Management Engineering and Business Administration. However, transportation activities are so diversified that students majoring in any of the courses offered by this College are eligible for admission to the Transportation Corps. Munsan, Korea, Jan 9—<dP)—The, Communists today submitted a newi counterproposal agreeing to all Al lied terms for supervising a Ko rean armistice except a ban on re building Red airfields. The U.N. command promptly rejected the compromise. The future of Red airfields is the basic point of dispute. “There is no major disagreement still existing except that of air fields,” said Maj Gen. Howard M. Turner, U.N. negotiator. “That has been the major disagreement throughout.” Accepted Allied Demands The Communist counterproposal formally accepted Allied demands for troop rotation, replenishment of supplies, and supervision of the truce by neutrals. Chinese Maj Gen. Fang called these “great concessions.” Turner retorted: “You have not made one single effort to solve the major difference confronting us.” No progress was made in a sub committee meeting on exchange of prisoners. Both subcommittees meet at 11 a.m. Thursday (9 pm. EST Wednesday) at Panmunjom. Each side made strongly worded attacks on he other. « The Reds made theirs in present- |ing their truce supervision coun- fterproposal. A UN. command communique called it an “inflam matory statement” accusing the United States “among other things of imperialism and world domina tion.” The U.N. command made its at tack in a broadcast from Tokyo to Korea. It charged Communist truce delegates “represent only a small clique of power-mad masters in the Kremlin ” The broadcast said the Red dele gates “like Communist leaders ev- eerywhere, do not and never will represent the will of the peeople. The voice of the U.N. command at the conference table is the voice of the Korean people and the people of all free nations.” Vice Adm. C Turner Joy, chief U.N. delegate, expressed hope Communist delegates would give “a working demonstration of good faith” eventually “in spite of their intransigence to date.” In a letter to Robert Eunson, Associated Press Bureau chief in Tokyo, where the Admiral is con ferring with Gen. Matthew B Ridgway, Joy sai dhe was neither pessimistic nor optimistic about the future. Battalion Editorials Hospital Fish Express Views Page 2 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1952 The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions "Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman" The Battalion, official newapaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texee, is published by students five times a week during the regular school year. During the summer terms, The Battalion is published four times a week, and during examination and/' vacation periods, twice a week. 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Classified ads may be placed by telephone (4-6324) or at the Student Activities Office, Room 209, Goodwin Hall. JOHN WHITMORE Editor Joel Austin Associate Editor Bill Streich Managing Editor Bob Selleck Sports Editor Frank Davis : 1 City Editor Peggy Maddox Women’s Editor T. H. Baker, E. R. Briggs, Benny Holub, Bryan Spencer, Ide Trotter Edgar Watkins, Carl Posey, Gene Steed, Jerry Bennett, Bert Weller Staff Writers Bob Cullen, Jack Brandt Staff Cartoonist Frank Scott Quarterback Club Director Dick Staff Photographer Pat LeBlanc, Hugh Philippus, Gus Becker, Joe Blanchette Ed Holder Sports Staff Writers John Lancaster Chief Photo Engraver Russell Hagens Advertising Manager Robert Haynie Advertising Representative g^u] Beck Circulation Manager Forgotten Oath WHILE WITHIN the confines of the ivy covered walls a " person gets to think the Oath of Hipocrates a doctor takes is something special. The person who is shielded from the icy blasts of the world thinks in medicine there is some thing great. In medicine there is a profession set aside for men who are giving their all to the service of humanity. By a code of ethics they are required to render aid in any way possible to a person needing aid. A person in the profession is thought to be just one notch above or below the minister—a friend, a confessor, a doctor. Daily we hear about doctors who in an attempt to do their duty risk life annd limb saving a life or giving com fort. Here, a person behind the ivy walls thinks, is a profes sion not bounded by set rules and regulations. Hats off to the medical profession in general. Now down to cases. Over the Christmas holidays we had a student refused medical attention. While the case was not serious—the man had a cerebral hemorage, which is more often than not fatal and was refused aid. According to hospital regulations a man could only be given aid in the case of an emergency over the Christmas holiday. An emergency is defined by the physician of the college as being a case which there is a matter of life and death. It does not include a case where comfort is considered. This seems to rule out cases of broken legs, broken arms, mangled fingers, and the like, because a person doesn’t die very often from them . Good grief, what does it take to crack into this hospital we have on the campus ? And what is more important, what does it take to get attention from the doctor? While we do not pay much for our medical attention, we do expect to have our health looked after. The Battalion does not feel it should be necessary to go to the hospital in a pool of blood just to gain admission and aid. For their credit, they have a few people in the hospital who seem to put a students needs above their owm pleasure. A goodly number of them worked during the past flu epi demic when they should have been in bed themselves. But all this good is wiped out in one swoop, when the doctor will not at least come out and look over a student and see if the case warrants special care. Moving on to another facet, we do not feel as if the col lege doctor had a right to tell a student to go to another doc tor. The man was a student of the A&M College. He paid his medical fees and we feel had a right to medical attention. It shatters the ideals of a person within the ivy walls. (Continued from Page 1) When asked why the student was not admitted to the hospital, Dr. Marsh said during the holi days the hospital follows the pol icy of only admitting emergency patients. He went on to say he felt as if his staff should be given some time off during the holidays. When asked to define emergency, the college doctor said “When it M r as a case of life or death.” When asked if this also included “Comfort and discomfort,” he said “no.” On Dec. 26, Bennie Zinn, assist ant dean of men, was contacted. He told Dr. Demke he was certain he, Zinn, could get Demke admittance in the hospital. Zinn said Demke refused this offer and decided after some per suasion to go to a veterans’ hospi tal. After making this decision, Zinn made arrangements for the veteran student to be admitted to the VA Hospital in Marlin. When contacted last night Dem ke said he was feeling much bet ter and had regained partial use of his arm and face muscles. Dr. Demke is the son of a for mer board of directors member. ) He is from Stephenville and receiv ed his DVM from A&M in 1941. (Continued from Page 1) “I don’t like it; they don’t belong here. They don’t have enough sense to live with the freshmen.” Melton. Malone, a mechanical en gineering major from Pledger, said, “I don’t like it. No particular rea son; I just don’t like the idea.” | “It may cause trouble because of retaliations, but I don’t believe it will be as rough as everybody is talking about,” said Jack Crab tree, from Beaumont taking busi ness administration. “It will make us learn campusology, but some of the sophomores won’t be capable of correcting because they were fresh men just last year.” “The sophomores won’t be any example to the fish,” said W. E. Meyer, a dairy husbandry major from San Marcos. “Wc may be bad, but they’re just as bad as we are.” Over Half Favor Indications are that a little over half of the fish favor the moving of sophomores into the fish^area, on the grounds that it will make the fish better. Those who are against the idea say that the sophomores are no better than the fish, and therefore will be of no use in the freshman area. And, of course, some of the fish just plain don’t like sophomores. 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