september - october - Fort Sill

THE FIELD ARTILLERY JOURNAL
through the Sierras and over the plains of Wyoming as it did over the hills
of France, and the caissons will go rolling along as merrily as they have
done since 1776. New soldier, what you will get out of all this will depend
upon what you put into it. Your mess-mate will give you the glad hand, and
your superiors a square deal, but if you don't get into the Spirit of the
Seventy-sixth you will see only the work and not the play, the grooming
and not the thrill. To make good you will need willingness, muscle and
guts, particularly guts!"
Award of Jeff Feigel Medal
On Friday morning, August 13, 1926, Major General C. P. Summerall,
at Regimental Review, pinned the Jeff Feigel medal on the breast of First
Sergeant William Casey, Battery "D"; the best Artilleryman in the Seventh
Field Artillery.
Colonel Fred Feigel, of New York City, gives each year an individual
medal in memory of his son, Lieutenant Jeff Feigel, to the best artilleryman
in the Seventh. Lieutenant Feigel was a member of Battery "F" of this
organization and the first artilleryman to meet his death in the American
Expeditionary Forces.
Each year a candidate is selected from each unit in the regiment to
compete for this medal. Candidates of over five years' service are chosen
for their particularly soldierly qualities, their technical knowledge of
artillery, length of service and character. Having attained this priceless
reward a soldier is no longer eligible to compete, but the medal remains in
his possession.
First Sergeant Casey, the winner of the 1926 Jeff Feigel medal, and
First Sergeant of 1924 Knox Trophy Battery, has an enviable record of
twenty-five years straight service. At the end of his first enlistment in 1904
he was discharged as a sergeant; the same grade was on his discharge for
each succeeding enlistments until 1917 when he became first sergeant—the
grade he holds at the present time. In his entire service Sergeant Casey has
never had any form of disciplinary action—his whole career is
characterized by outstanding loyalty, faithfulness to duty and love of honor
and country.
In being recognized as the best artilleryman in the Seventh Field,
Sergeant Casey receives a just reward for his long years of excellent service.
A Reserve Officer's Impressions of the Field Artillery School
Under the heading of "Impressions of Fort Sill," by Second Lieutenant
N. F. Gill, Field Artillery Reserves, the following appears in the June,
1926, issue of the Ohian, Bulletin of the 83rd Division:
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