Frank Allen Ramsey - Office of Medical History - U.S. Army

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Army Medical Department ProfilesQ: So you went to D.C. then, packed it in, put it in a trailer?A: Went to D.C. Arrived there, a country boy in the big city, and that was quite anawakening. Our general then was General George Kuhn, and he was awonderful general. He was a dead ringer for George Patton. In fact, they hadbeen at Fort Knox together in the horse cavalry, and he was the Fort Knoxbase veterinarian when George Patton was there, and George Patton inventedhis famous saber there at Fort Knox. They were very close friends.Soon after I received my orders to report to OTSG, I received a phone callfrom Col. Martin Oster, the man I was to replace. He spent a lot of timebriefing me on the job, the office, and on Washington. He gave me aseemingly endless list of people and activities I would be in contact with. I wasgreatly impressed by his knowledge and his call made me very apprehensive. Idid not think I could ever have his phenomenal memory. It was months later Irealized he had been reading names off his Rolodex and his phone roster, thenI felt a little better. I overlapped with Colonel Oster for about a week and hewas a great help and went out of his way to orient me.Colonels Lorenz L. Beuschel, Hayward G. Brown, John Powell, and TomMcChesney were in the Office of the Chief of the Veterinary Corps in OTSG.All of them were extremely capable and experienced. Colonel Beuschel wasparticularly kind and helpful to me and perhaps more than the others, served asmy mentor. I could discuss assigned actions with him and he would review mydraft papers and always had constructive comments. After some months, Col.(later BG) Wilson M. Osteen replaced Colonel Powell as Deputy CorpsChief, and Col. Wallace L. Anthony replaced Col. Tom McChesney. Col.Mylo Hagberg came in later during that tour and became a lifelong friend andadvisor.General Kuhn was on terminal retirement leave, and I don’t know how longthat was—30, 60, 90 days. At the end of that leave, he was going to retirewhen General Russell McNellis, who was then the Chief of the Veterinary50
Frank Allen RamseyCorps, retired. So when General McNellis retired, General George A.Kuhn—his name, his file—was submitted to a general officer selection boardto select a new chief since technically he had not retired yet. He was selectedto be the next chief, and came to Washington and took over. This was while Iwas here in San Antonio at the Medical Service Agency.Reorganizing the TO&EsLater on we had a meeting somewhere, and I was told to give a briefing on theveterinary activities at the Medical Service Agency, which I did, and youasked if we had any indication of the need for new items of equipment whichhad developed out of Vietnam. We did, and when I presented this briefing, Italked about redoing the TO&Es, and the sets and kits, and the other things—the functions of the medical service agency, overall functions and all that—gave the agency briefing, and then talked about the veterinary portion of theagency’s activities, and in that mentioned that there was a need for some newitems that we didn’t have.When I arrived in Washington, I hadn’t been there very long and GeneralKuhn called me in and told me that he wanted to have a veterinary R&D effortto develop these new items that we needed, and to determine whether therewere any other items that we needed that we didn’t have. So at the nextmeeting of Veterinary Corps officers here in the United States, whichoccurred soon thereafter, this was brought up and discussed at length, andworking committees came up with a tentative list of things that the veterinaryservice needed in order to do its job better. Some of these were regulationchanges, some of them were TO&E changes that they were discussing. Someof them were new items of equipment that were needed in these TO&E setsand kits. Some of them were things that were needed by CONUS veterinaryunits in doing their functions.We initially identified about 100 items—I don’t remember the exact number,but approximately 100 items that it was believed by individuals were needed.Then we started working to refine that list. We finally reduced it to 25 items51
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