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Army Medical Department Profilescurtain, and she hung vertically, and she’d stay there all day. When they’dcome and have inspections, they’d open the curtains and look. They neverfound her, and so the cadets got a tremendous kick out of that. We kept Sheilain a big cage there in our office for the rest of the year. Then when the yearwas over, the cadet took her home with him. That was humorous.Tulip BedsAt the same time, we had a surgeon who had been the SHAPE surgeon inBelgium, and his wife and he lived there on the academy. While in Belgium,they had become avid collectors of tulips, and when they left to come back tothe states, they brought with them hundreds of tulip bulbs. The horticulturistshad drawn blueprints of how to set out the beds, and each bulb was numbered,and you followed the blueprint in setting it out. Then when they bloomed, youhad these colors that would make up crests and different things, beautifulintegrated colors, heights and colors, and some had smooth blossoms andothers had frizzled blossoms, and they were just beautiful.At their quarters they set out all these tulip beds. Their tulips started growing,and he called me one day and he said, “This is a little outside of our area, Iknow, but I’ve got a problem. My tulips are dying.” Well, I had a civilianfriend with the Post Engineer who handled horticulture matters on the post,and he and I went over there to look at the tulips. Before we got out of the car,he said, “There’s the problem.” There was a great big boxer dog walking bythe tulip bed, and as he walked by, he lifted his leg, and several dead tulipsresulted from that.Well, the boxer belonged to the chief of staff, and they had a rule that no dogswould be permitted at large there on the academy. But several times, when thecadets were having a review there on the plain, this boxer would get out. He’drun up and down in front of the companies, and the chief of staff thought thiswas the greatest thing that ever happened. Well, there was his boxer. So Icaught the dog and went to see the chief of staff. I said, “Sir, my career is in44
Frank Allen Ramseyjeopardy. You’ve got to keep this dog tied up or in your yard at home. If anymore of those tulips die, I’m out of here.”So sure enough a couple of days later the dog got out again; the surgeon calledme—his wife would call him and he would call me. That was the great tulipfiasco. But we tried all sorts of scents. We tried screening them. He justjumped over, you know, building a little screen. Well, that obscured the viewof the tulip bed, so that didn’t work. We tried copper screen wire and hookingan electric cord to it and plugging it into the house. Nothing worked. Wewracked our brains, but we never did come up with a good way to control theproblem. So we started going by every day to check and make sure the dogwas fastened in properly. That’s enough of that. Go ahead.Command & General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 1964 to 1965Q: Okay, Command and General Staff College.A: Command and General Staff College. I went there. I attended Command andGeneral Staff College, met a tremendous number of good fellow officers,enjoyed it very much, spent 10 months there in the school. I was “lucky” inthat that was the first 10 month course. It had been shorter before that, and theylengthened it. I met a lot of officers that I continued to meet thereafterthroughout my career, and I guess to me as a veterinarian that was probably thegreatest benefit from it. We studied infantry tactics, and armor tactics, andeverything else. Two of my classmates had been instructors at the ArmorSchool for four years, and we had one of our tests on “The Armored Divisionin the Attack in China.” They both flunked the test, and I did extremely wellon it, and I had a lot of fun teasing them about it after that. All I knew was byrote what they taught us there, and these men were encumbered by theirknowledge and experience. So they tried to interpret more into it than theschool intended. But I had a lot of fun out of it. That stands out in my mind.Q: Were you the only Medical Corps officer there?45
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