July-August - Air Defense Artillery School

Ct\RTC TRAI~I:'\G AIDS
An idea is completed. Printing eight-color recoil mechanism charts in the silk screen shop.
ips. Interspersed arc such aids as hundreds of bayonet
rrainingsticks, sighting devices and firing dowels, as well
~s enough portable blackboards, easels and pointers to
Isupplyevery training battery with four of each. \\Torking
!,nodelsof the M I rifle, and such Coast Artillery impro-
(\'isedaids as universal deflection boards, angular travel
t
~mputors,wind component indicators, azimuth difference
mputor, set forward slide rules, prediction scales and
manyothers have been turned out.
~tween cycles, cadremen tour Training Aids, observing
ro.iectsin development. New officers arriving at the center
are conducted through the shops, receiving informa-
.. n on how to obtain and use the aids alreadv made, and
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how to offer ideas for additional ones ..
The procurement division is backed up by Special
eld Exercise funds. But it is only after the salvage yards,
I civilian scrap heaps, regulation issue and other mis-
Ilaneous sources are exhausted is the SFE fund usedn
under close S-3 supervision. Civilians in neighboring
'ns have been extremely cooperative. A juke box dealer
pplied boxes of junk, which finds its way into many of
models. The Red Cross has assisted, especiall~' in
ing. Examples are the repair of salvaged fatigues which
me excellently camouflaged demonstration suits, or the
'ing of salvaged canvas into chart cases. Such sources
e welcome, for no one ever knows what Training Aids
will be called upon to supply. It has been anything-from
chicken feathers to dynamite!
The front office c~rries on a wide correspondence with
other replacement training centers and army school boards,
principally to obtain publications and charts.
This story would not be complete without a notation of
the appreciation the CARTC unit extends to the Training
Aids of the Infantry Replacement Training Center at
Camp Roberts, California.
It was a visit to the IRTC, commanded by Brigadier
General Eugene \\T. Fales, and its excellent silk screen shop
under Captain Sterling Honai, by General Clark and Colonel
Ruddell, which led to the development of the present
CARTC section. Four enlisted men of the CARTC
trained in the Roberts silk screen shop prior to starting
operations at Camp McQuaide. During this training and a
later trip to Roberts, the CARTC men produced many
charts which cover general infantry subjects, allowing them
to concentrate on charts for the 155mm in their home shop.
The two training aid shops exchange latest productions,
and have arranged to produce a sufficient number of charts
for each other should they express need for them.
In closing the story of the CARTC Training Aids shops,
let us note that the shop in its present setup has been in
operation only since the turn of the year-improving and
exploiting to make short cuts along the road to victory.