July-August - Air Defense Artillery School

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the tourney will be held sometime in Iulv to determine the
tug-of-wa/champion of the post. Tea~ls ~ust pull their opponents
half the length of a fifty-foot rope t\\'O out of three
times in order to win a round. Four officers. two from each
competing unit, act as round judges.
Speedball is the latest physical innovation added to
Stewart's strenuous physical training program. It's three
games rolled into one. with the fastest and best features of
each. It is an amalgamation of soccer, basketball and football-and
the troops are finding that it is aptly named. Only
well-conditioned troops can stand its pace. the AAi\ TC
Ph~'~ical Training Section points out. As a rule there are
eleven men to a side. although it can be played with fewer
men to a side if desired. Its value is in the interest it maintains
throughout and in the varied skills it calls for, such as
kicking and running-as in football; heading. dribbling and
trapping-as in soccer; and passing and guarding-as in
basket ball.
The Centralized Troop School, virtually a University in
itself, early in June expanded its judo and bayonet instruction,
enlarged its motor transportation courses and added
additional courses in ordnance.
The "CamouAage Area" also opened early in June. Involving
a quarter of a sCjuare mile, it contains numerous
exhibits that capably demonstrate all the latest techniques
and tactics of antiaircraft camouflage, for the edification and
instruction of Stewart's thousands of antiaircraft troops.
It also features valued exhibits on booby traps, road
blocks, and dummy mine fields.
Insofar as possible salvage materials were used in all
exhibits, even to use of dummy AA guns, so that critical
materials might be left free for more vital uses.
In June the airborne battalion under i\lajor 'vVilliam P.
Pope won the hearty commendation of General Spiller for
its superb physical efficiency rating, highest ever made at
Stewart. The battalion made 98 per cent on its advanced
physical conditioning tests.
1\ colored battalion received three citations in one da\'.
one for its excellence in antiaircraft firing, one for its s~periority
in antimechanized firing and one for its tidiness.
Lieutenant Colonel Lawrence i\. Strobel is its commanding
officer. The battalion under Lieutenant Colonel L. A.
Corkan was commended for its "superior firing" on the
antimechanized range. On the antimechanized range, the
colored unit made 29 per cent of hits, and Colonel Corkan's
battalion had one battery which registered -+7.5 per cent
hits and another which made 35 per cent hits.
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BRIGADIER GENER,\L C. D. Y. OSTROl'l. COlll/llmlding
. The Army's Coast Artillery Replacement Training
Center completed its first year of operation on 12 July
1943. Since that day in early July one year ago when its
initial cadre consisted of only a few officers and enlisted
men. the Center's personnel has been greatly increased. its
There is but one goal of training at Camp McQuaide.
facilities have been expanded and improved considerabh
and thousands of trained replacements have graduated frO~l
its courses of instruction to take their places in the several
Coast Artillery organizations far and near, or to continue
their military training in specialized or advanced fields.
i\ Ia jor General Hazlett, Commanding General Arm\
Ground Force's Replacement and School Command, visited
the center to note its progress during this first year of ib
existence. This was the General's first visit since assumino to
command, and numerous outstanding features of the
Camp's training program were observed.
In keeping with the training center's motto, Strive for
Perfeetioll, is the introduction here of many adjuncts to
training. Between training cycles, all officer and enlisted'
training cadre attend a comprehensive refresher course, the
purpose of which is to review and standardize methods of
instruction, to educate instructors in current practices in tht I
i\Iobilization Training Program subjects to be taught, and
to afford an opportunity
of new instructors.
for applicatory training on the pan
I
The construction of trammg areas
basic principles in sonie of the subjects
for demonstratinQ
taught has been al
major aid to training. In a Camouflage Area, students see
common installations properly and improperly camouflaged
here they also use standard tools and materials for camou
Aage operations. In another area devoted to antimechaniz
defense, many different types of antitank obstacles and roa
blocks have been constructed for purposes of illustration
Field fortifications for seacoast installations and for in
vidual
area.
protection are demonstrated in another appropriat
A Special Order commending the outstanding accO
plishments of YVOJG Sam Horowitz as Officer in Charge
the Library of Training Aids was .published by Gener
Ostrom. Newest of the Library's contributions to the trainl
ing program is a series of colored charts on map readin.
showing various conventional signs and symbols greatly e
larged to make classroom instruction in the subject roO
impressive. The library has also provided all elements of I
Command with a large scale map of the reservation which
of particular assistance to the administrative staffs and trai
ing batteries. Frequently used training areas are clear
outlined and identified bv a code number, so that in
preparation of training schedules and directives, refere
to appropriate areas can be made briefly and accuratel~
code number. A grid system has also been provided. so t
those locations which cannot be described adequatelr
code may be identified rapidly by the use of a small o\,erla
~ lore than a hundred officers and enlisted men who h
returned from o\'erseas duty ha\'e been assigned to
various units of the CARTC. As a result of their obsel'
l