Huachuca Illustrated: Buffalo Soldiers at Huachuca, Part III

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Camp Stephen D. Little, Nogales, Arizona, Spring 1918. Large building to the left-rear is the commanding officer’s residence. Left-front building is BOQ. Photo courtesy Lt. Col. John Healy, USA Retired. 56 Camp Harry J. Jones at Douglas, Arizona, in about 1918. Photo courtesy Dick Ross, 17th Cavalry. In the Army reorganization of 1921, the 25th lost its regimental Machine Gun Company HUACHUCA ILLUSTRATED
to demobilization and had Rifle Companies D, H, and M changed into Machine Gun Companies, with the old regimental machinegun soldiers distributed throughout the newly designated units. New headquarters companies were formed in two battalions as were two howitzer companies. The name of the old Supply Company was changed to Service Company. Under the reorganized Tables of Organization, the authorized strength of the regiment was 61 officers and 1,546 men. The actual strength was 33 officers and 1,464 men, with 145 men becoming surplus by virtue of the fact that they were in excess of the number authorized in their grade. On June 29, 1921, the Chief of Infantry in Washington saw fit to commend the regiment on its low desertion rate. He wrote: A study of comparative desertions among Infantry regiments for the four month period from December, 1920, to March, 1921,...shows the desertion rate for your regiment during the period mentioned to have less than one-half the average rate for the Infantry as a whole. The low rate maintained in your regiment is very gratifying to this office and shows an appreciation, by yourself and your officers and non-commissioned officers, of the importance of reducing the desertion rate in an organization. It is desired to extend you and the members of your command the thanks of this office for your efforts in behalf of a lower desertion rate. 163 The Chief’s comments are ironic because the major source of worry in the 25th for black men who had chosen a military career was not how to get out of the Army but how to stay in it during this year of drastic reductions. Company E, 25th Infantry, Stephen D. Little, Nogales, Arizona, in 1924. A further reduction was ordered by Congress and, by July of 1921, the actual enlisted strength of the regiment was 1,145. In October their numbers were further reduced when a modified Table of Organization was circulated by the War Department. Now they were only authorized to have 1,312 men and their actual strength by the end of the month fell to 1,023. By the end of the year the actual strength had dropped to the point where 276 men were transferred in from the 10th Cavalry to fill vacancies. Year-end strength was back up to 1,322. On September 4, 1922, the 25th underwent another reorganization, this time losing its Battalion Headquarters Companies and the Howitzer Company. This reduced the strength of the regi- A MAGAZINE OF THE FORT HUACHUCA MUSEUM 57
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4 the mountains. We also have a wir
Page 6 and 7: 6 Garrison Flag at halfstaff on Mem
Page 8 and 9: 8 Hu Blakemore Myers, commanded For
Page 10 and 11: day, but there is no salable value
Page 12 and 13: World War II. Looney was the son of
Page 14 and 15: the Commanding Officer’s Quarters
Page 16 and 17: 16 “Fort Huachuca, Arizona, 1933.
Page 18 and 19: 18 Original enlisted barracks. From
Page 20 and 21: 20 Railroad siding with warehouses
Page 22 and 23: 22 Mexican laborers’ camp. From t
Page 24 and 25: 24 View of Fort Huachuca in 1920. V
Page 26 and 27: 26 View of Fort Huachuca around 191
Page 28 and 29: 28 Fort Huachuca in the 1920s. Note
Page 30 and 31: 30 A view of Fort Huachuca in 1924
Page 32 and 33: 32 “Parade Grounds and Buildings
Page 34 and 35: 34 A 1929 aerial view of Fort Huach
Page 36 and 37: 36 Post Exchange in the 1930s. Look
Page 38 and 39: Officers’ quarters, 25th Infantry
Page 40 and 41: 40 Fort Huachuca in 1933. Photo cou
Page 42 and 43: 42 Keeping a crap game honest. From
Page 44 and 45: 44 A Markel boy on his pony. From t
Page 46 and 47: 46 the instruction of a CMTC [Citiz
Page 48 and 49: afternoon the treaty became a reali
Page 50 and 51: A Fort Huachuca trooper with machin
Page 52 and 53: 10th Cavalry Machine Gun Troop at s
Page 54 and 55: colored non-coms from a squadron of
Page 58 and 59: ment to 1,150. Personnel affected b
Page 60 and 61: 60 patrols. * * * The staff was pro
Page 62 and 63: 62 views. U.S. Army photo. Regiment
Page 64 and 65: 64 Company G, 25th Infantry, at Nog
Page 66 and 67: 66 Parade at Huachuca in 1938 of th
Page 68 and 69: The massed standards and colors of
Page 70 and 71: 70 HUACHUCA ILLUSTRATED
Page 72 and 73: mas Wolfe finished Look Homeward An
Page 74 and 75: The commander at Huachuca in 1932,
Page 76 and 77: Colonel Robert S. Knox (left), comm
Page 78 and 79: interesting to me, since I always w
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Page 82 and 83: 82 The 25th Infantry Newspaper The
Page 84 and 85: 84 that came the march by, first ti
Page 86 and 87: 86 States Army.” 184 Golden State
Page 88 and 89: “The American Soldier, 1938: Cava
Page 90 and 91: 90 The gas station at Huachuca in t
Page 92 and 93: ody apparently had ever figured on
Page 94 and 95: Colonel John F. Franklin, commandin
Page 96 and 97: 96 lifestyles of families stationed
Page 98 and 99: 98 was home and I had a relatively
Page 100 and 101: Huachuca’s Changing Landscape: Wo
Page 102 and 103: military accessory schools. Followi
Page 104 and 105: Fort Huachuca, Arizona in 1934, hom
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Post theater (bldg. no 41305) about
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108 View of the Old Post from Reser
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South end of Old Post area, Bonnie
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112 July 19, 1938 view of the post
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Airfield at Fort Huachuca’s main
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Pacific. Japan went to war with Chi
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118 behalf of the education and wel
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Beach, E. Merrill. From Valley Forg
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Printing Office, Washington D.C., 1
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155 Betancourt papers in FHM files.
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