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Army Medical Department Profilesand other German cities. I told him I would contact one of my VeterinaryCorps friends in Frankfurt and have a male sent down. He recoiled as if I hadslapped him and said, “No, Monsieur, we will never accept a German RatonQui Laver (rat which washes), but only an American one!”I got him an “American one” and several years later was pleased to see a brassplaque on the cage in the La Rochelle Zoo crediting the U.S. Army. The cagecontained twelve raccoons.The next time the two M. P.s came for me, we again went to a bar in LaPallice. An American soldier had been badly bitten by a monkey belonging tothe chief of a touring Gypsy circus tribe. The French Gendarmes were thereand there was much excitement. I did not want to quarantine the monkey, andafter much discussion we all agreed the chief would advise the localGendarmerie whenever the monkey moved during the 14-day quarantine, andI would check with them to learn where his circus was and go there every otherday to check the monkey. The monkey was always in the top of a high tree, sothe chief would clap his hands and call “Singe” and it would come down, jumpon his shoulder, and eat my peanuts.The chief was one of the circuses aerialists and one day I found him in aleotard with shoulder straps practicing on their high bar. He noticed mestaring at the two large, open, healed scarred holes under his collar bones. Hegrinned, touched them and said, “Le Boche, Dachau, meat hooks, two dayshanging.”New Offshore Discharge Exercises (NODEX)In 1955, ‘56 and ‘57, the United States Army conducted a number of NODEXexercises along the French Atlantic coast, usually one in the summer and onein the winter. Because the Southern and Northern District Veterinarians wereon TDY to Spain or Yugoslavia, I was fortunate enough to be designated asthe NODEX Veterinarian for four consecutive exercises. Four to six cargofreighters would come from CONUS and their cargoes would be unloaded12
Frank Allen Ramseyover-the-beach, simulating wartime conditions when all ports would have beendestroyed.During these exercises, for the first time, a number of newly developedtechniques and items of equipment were field tested. Among them were the DeLong Floating Pier, the Rough Terrain Forklift (capable of unloading barges insix to eight feet of water and carrying the pallets ashore), the Overhead AerialTramway (which carried pallet loads of supplies from a ship suspended fromoverhead cables to a De Long Pier, the way buckets of concrete weretransported during the construction of Boulder Dam in Nevada), Perforated-Steel-Platform panels to firm up sandy beaches and Deep Sea Landing Bargesto transport supplies from ships to shore or the De Long Pier.At least one of the four to six freighters would contain subsistence, sometimesmore than one. Our job was to board the ships on arrival and inspect the holdfor water leakage and/or damage, to supervise the unloading, to conduct astatistical sample inspection of the subsistence, and supervise the loading intotransport trucks, and then a final receipt inspection when off-loaded intodepots or warehouses.On two exercises, I accompanied an Engineer officer, while he performed preexerciseroad route-reconnaissance, to document the condition of all roads andbeaches to determine their pre- and post-exercise condition to be used insettling post-exercise lawsuits with the French.The total exercise usually lasted three weeks for me and the VeterinaryService enlisted men and NCO’s who participated. We lived in tents and hadone hot meal per day in field kitchens. Going aboard the ships was always apleasure as they always invited us to eat in the ship’s officer’s mess. Based onthe exercise reports, these items tested were modified as required and all ofthem soon were used in Vietnam very successfully. These were multinational,NATO type exercises and there would be American, French,German, and English military units and personnel participating, and invariably13
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