Camp Adair Sentry
September 10, 1942
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man victory, provided that enough Trees in Tent City?
military pressure is brought to bear
against the Axis.” He beliexaa that Who's Kidding Whom?
political ambition may lead the
The cherry trees which bounded
German state to over-extend to the
the Tent Area on the east have
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point of collapse.
been chopped down and George
Repairing
Enlarging on the statement that
military pressure must be brought Washington had nothing to do with
We guarantee both work­
to bear against the Axis, General it. The engineers did it, in accord­
manship and materials.
ance
with
camp
plans,
and
if
the
Kramer said:
pioneers
are
sorry
to
hear
it
they
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“Although the strong and able
at
least
may
be
glad
that
they
ate
and shoe laces.
German army has been weakened
by military action, it still is power­ all of the cherries they could reach,
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ful in the field and is capable of when the trees were heavily bur­
dened,
in
June.
winning many tactical victories. It
Water is being piped to the tent
is true, of course, that such victories
in themselves do not win wars. De­ area now. and will run soon in
kitchens and new showers, and the
spite the good condition of the Ger­
man army it must be kept in mind tents have floors.
A striking feature of recreation
that we have all they have and
among
the colored troops in camp
WEDDINGS
more.”
is the choir of 40 voices, recruited
While General Kramer is un­
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familiar with the nature of today's from the tents and from elsewhere
training within Germany, he re­ in the camp, and led by Cpl. Hurley
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members the pre-war training as V. Grissom.
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being extremely intensive.
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“undertakes a vigorous and ex­
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ceptionally thorough program of
training from the day he enters the
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army. For a year he has basic train­
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and so designed that the process
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appointment-
year's end. Also every soldier has
if not con­
between 30 and 60 days in the field
venient other­
for combined maneuvers.
wise.
"In the second year, following a
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furlough of one or two weeks, the
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soldier helps to train new men and
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has more strenuous training him­
self. In summer this goes on from
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autnmobile insurance policy is sold
eight to twelve hours a day, with
only once—thereafter it renews by
a great deal of night work, prac­
mail, like life insurance, TAis elimi­
tical more than academic. The sol­
nates repeated sales cost paid yearly
for ordinary insurance.
dier is not only trained as an indi­
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vidual. but also to do his part as
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a member of a team.
“Even at the end of the first
year of training the German sol­
dier is toughened to endure un­
precedented marches. He soon
learns to expect a marching day
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that begins at 2 o’clock in the
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morning and ends at 7 o’clock that
night. He marches 35 miles with
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light pack and gas mask and nights
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and days are the same to him.”
General Kramer cited the im­
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portance of this intensified train­
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ing “since the infantry must he able
to stick with motorized units and
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exploit their gains." He told of be­ ■
ing on one march with infantry
when not a man fell by the way, but ,
six horses, used in the transport,
were lost.”
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German army discipline is firm,
said General Kramer, yet it pro­
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motes a sound relationship within
the ranks. Incidentally, a soldier
salutes every other soldier, as well
as his officers.
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model, was named "Miss Western Pennsylvania.”
General Kramer Tells Impressions of
German Army From Long Service as
Military Observer With Nazi Troops
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Oh Craig, Oh Craig!
What's in That Bag?
Last week this paper expressed
curiosity as to what Tch 5 Charlie
Craig transported in that bag of
his from barracks to camp head­
quarters every morning. Curiosity
killed the cat and the solutions we
are receiving are about to kill us.
There is but one thing that keeps
us on the subject. Craig, himself,
refuses to enlighten a palpitating
world with a personal reply Break
down and tell us, Craig. Well stand
by you even if it's a bottle of hair
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Although General Kramer was
unwilling to say. for publication,
how long he thought the war would
last, he indicated his own idea as
to how the break would come. Like
a rubber band that has been ex­
panded beyond its stretchability,
Germany is likely to snap, he sug­
gested. The General feels that "eco­
no mu conditions and political am­
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knowledge Although he granted
this interview in his office at the
llMth division headquarters- where
as assistant division commander he
helps to direct a bee hive of activ­
ity incident to that division's ap­
proaching activation
he spent
nearly two years studying and ob­
serving the German military
chine
In cast you have an overdue copy
of' "The Rover Boys And Their
Mechanical Yo-Yo” and haven’t
been able to find the library to re­
turn same — there's a reason. The
Camp Adair library has moved
from the Special Services building
to Service Club No. 2, building 309.
The Service club is on Club ave­
nue between 1st St. North and 1st
St. South. The library will be open
from 6 until 10 p. m. on week
days, and on Sundays from 1 to 5
and from 6 to 10.
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By Cpl Henry Beckett
General Staff Academy for nearly
Brigadier General Herman Fred­ two years 1937 through 1939- he
erick Kramer has given an inter­ hail occasion to participate as stu­
view to the Camp Adair Sentry, dent observer in troop and field
evaluating German military train­ I exercises of the German army, even
ing as he himself observed it at following the invading army into
the outbreak of war. and predict­ | Poland ami passing some time
ing that the Axis forces will be de­ there. After completing his school­
feated only if the United State« ing. he passed several months on
matches that training and equals duty with the Military Attache at
Berlin.
the enemy in sacrificial effort.
"The Germans will lose and we
It was General Kramer's first
interview since his recent eleva­ will win,” General Kramer said,
tion from the hank of colonel and "if we build up a will to win and
at the request of the Sentry he if we care enough about it to ex­
talked about a subject that he is pend the same amount of energy
peculiarly equipped to discuss— and make as great an effort and
German army training and what sacrifice as much as the Germans
it will take to crush the German do. We can win if we work hard
and long. And if we really want
war machine.
For General Kramer is in a posi- to get it over with we must go
ion to speak from first hand into all-out training now.”
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