Page Four
Mission of Soldier
Told by General Cook
Commander of Timber Wolf Div.
Stresses Importance of Unity
Last week marked the closing the best combat unit in the Timber
»f the first series of orientation Wolf Division.
¿ourses in the Timber Wolf Divi-
Your squad, section, platoon and
sion. A part of the talk delivered company must be, and is, the finest
>y Major General Gilbert R. Cook and best in the Army. Likewise for
■ ver radio station KOAC in Cor your battalion and regiment. Your
vallis follows:
unit can be no better than you
When 1 first spoke to you, last make it and no better than you
Lir ary, you had begun your train- think it is. Good combat units don’t
ng in "How to Fight.” If I re- just grow, they are made by the
nei.iber right it was raining, and soldiers belonging to them. If you
low. It seemed that the howl of put your heart, soul and body into
Timber Wolf was becoming making a good unit you will have
tinged with the “quack, quack” of one. If training is just something
.he duck. But rain, mud, or snow, to play at, and get over with, your
you trained. No obstacle prevented unit is just a boarding house and
raining. Now you are no longer a poor one at that. Ten cents worth
»i ginners. You have advanced and of efforts makes a ten cent unit.
Know much about “How to kill” Who wants to serve in a five and
and “How not to be killed.” You dime unit?
The members of a good fighting
Know your weapons. You are ex-
ellent shots. You can march. You unit, think, talk and live for their
re hard physically. You are begin- unit. They design team plays,
ing to appreciate the value of learn signals and practice issuing
eam-play of weapons, of indivi and obeying orders. They know the
duals and of units. You are becom- capabilities of each individual and
ng efficient fighting soldiers. I component unit—their strong and
lii proud of you. The nation will weak points. They try to strength
jc proud of you. You are, how- en both.
ver, not yet fully trained. You
A unit is good, because its in
Ion’t- know all your leaders and dividuals are good.
cam-mates and what other indivi-
Third Job, and of equal import
luals and units in and out of the ance. You must make the Timber
1 ¡vision can do to help you, your Wolf Division the finest fighting
;nit and the division. You don’t unit of combined arms in the Army.
ct know tactical team plays.
The Timber Wolf Division, in
In other words you have not yet addition to fighting with its own
nrpleted your training program. weapons, will often fight with oth
>. fact you are just now well under er divisions, with tanks, with avia
way. You are, however, in the tion, with tank destroyers, with
• >st important phase of training. anti-aircraft units, with the Navy,
T u are being taught to operate the Marine Corps and units of
company and battalion teams, allied nations.
Enemy Strong, Too
ou are being taught to fight in
It will be fighting against enemy
i ge packs. The Timber Wolf
!vision can be no stronger than units similarly organized and
equipped.
packs of wolves.
To operate with such units and
The nation, your communities,
is made up its mind to win this against such enemy units means
ar. Unconditional surrender of that the division must be good. To
ie enemy. This means that he have a good fighting division means
ust be defeated in battle. The job that you make it so. To make it so,
the Timber Wolf Division, then, you must study, learn and teach
to help defeat the enemy by de- each other, how efficiently to de
ti eying his fighting strength, stroy all types of enemy.
What you have been taught as
■ >ur jobs are derived from this
individuals
and are now being-
nission.
taught as units are the foundation
The Job to Do
upon which correct methods of
The jobs of the American soldiers fighting any type of armed enemy
n the Timber Wolf Division are is based. Learn what is being
5ew.
taught you thoroughly and we will
First Job, and foremost, you have, as we now have, the finest
hi ust make yourself the best sol division in the Army.
tier individually in your unit.
The Timber Wolf Division’s creed
Proud and confident of your abil is “Stalk and Kill” and its battle
ity, your uniform and your com cry is “Rally the Pack.”
pany, troop or battery.
Fourth Job. and of the greatest
A good soldier does nothing that importance. We must not play at
will bring discredit on himself, his learning “How to Kill” and “How
family, his company or his Army. not to be Killed.” War is a costly
He is a good soldier in camp, in game, particularly to us soldiers.
adjacent communities, in training Our cost is measured in killed and
wounded. Time or effort wasted
and in battle.
A good soldier keeps himself fit during the training period must in
at all times; he is neat in appear evitably be paid for on the battle
ance; and salutes promptly and field by you and your comrades.
with snap.
You are responsible for the battle
A good soldier is respected by welfare of yourself and of your
other good soldiers.
comrades. This is a heavy respon
A soldier is no better than he sibility. It cannot be shifted. Train
~hinks he is; if he thinks he is a ing is an investment as well as an
poor soldier he probably is, because insurance. The soldier who does
:io one should know better than not take it seriously is a menace to
himself.
good soldiers and a detriment to
A poor soldier is one who can his unit, his family and his country.
not be trusted. He can’t he trusted
Training Appreciated
to even scare the enemy he shoots
Many soldiers telling of their
at, to keep his weapon and ammu first experience in battle in Tu
nition clean, to be present for duty, nisia, New Guinea and Guadal
to be on time, or even to fight well canal charge themselves with neg
:n battle with his team-mates. He lect during the training period.
jften causes good soldiers to be They say, “If we had only known
killed uselessly. He should not be and appreciated the value of train
tolerated in a company.
ing.” This is particularly true of
Second Job, and of greater im non-commissioned officers. They
portance, you must make your unit found that they had lacked imagi- I
Camp Adair Sentry
Thursday, April 29, 1943.
It is the direct responsibility of written by Enlisted Men.
nation and initiative, that they had
the
officers and non-commissioned
In the Service Club libraries are
either avoided responsibility or had
officers
to
make
this
knowledge
hundreds
of new books, many of
been given none. In battle, respon
available
and
to
see
that
it
does
which
are
directly related to the
sibility was thrust upon them, it
reach
the
men.
The
officer
must
present war. These are well worth
was either accept it, and do some
assume
the
role
of
the
teacher,
an
hour or two of your time.
thing, or be destroyed.
ready
at
all
times
to
discuss
cur
In training, a good soldier car
Second Series
ries on his person or in the truck rent news and explain the signifi
Following this initial series of
everything that he needs in battle. cance of each new phase of the war. Orientation Programs will be a
But it does not stop there; such
He gets in the habit of doing it.
second series, presented by the
responsibility
falls not only on the
He does not make exception. When
Timber Wolf Special Service office.
he does he knows he’s playing at officers, but on each and every This series will give you, each
individual soldier in the Timber
war.
week, a half-hour dramatic pre
Wolf
Division. Every man must
Good individuals and units prac
sentation of the outstanding war
tice constantly only those activities make it his business to follow the news of the preceding seven days.
that are useful in combat. They progress of the war, to know what Let your radio help you keep your
don’t kid themselves by saying, is going on and to interpret the self oriented.
“Oh, we know how to set sights I news in terms of what it means to
Before closing I desire to thank
or level the bubble. Why keep him as a fighting soldier.
and compliment Captains Barnes
doing it over and over. We’ll do
War Concerns All
and Gridley, Lieutenants Bowen,
it in combat.” They know if they
No man can say, “What do I care
start skipping this important step what happens in Africa or Russia? Buckley, Madigan and Black, Ser
in training that they will skip it in That doesn’t concern me.” It does geants O’Neil, Vaka and Stegeman,
and Private, now Corporal, Chap
the excitement of battle.
concern you. You are a part of
The Orientation Program, ex the whole conflict; you are in man, for outstanding work in con
plaining the background and prog volved in everything that happens nection with the preparation and
ress of the war, is finished. But —because from the lessons which presentation of the Orientation
that does not mean that keeping experience teaches others you must Talks during this series.
A Timber Wolf likes to howl be
up to date on the war is finished, learn how best to do the duty ahead
cause
he knows the value of the
The war isn’t finished, it’s still of you. Who knows where the
going qn.
Timber Wolf Division is going to pack. Timber Wolf and Good Sol
dier are the same.
fight ?
Know Your Enemy
Learn now while you have the
It is the constant duty of every
opportunity.
It will not he so easy J ust When We Planned
to
keep
abreast
of
world
soldier
to
learn
when
the time comes for To Run for Cover
events, As I said in my first talk
with you, keeping oriented means, us to go into battle.
There are several methods by The army has just issued an
simply, to “Know where we are,
which
you can inform yourself of order to stop Army men from run-
why we are there, and where we
the course the war is taking. Readning for public office. Last No-
are going.”
A foreknowledge of the enemy, the newspapers. Study the Daily vember dozens of soldiers were
how he fights, is almost as im- Orientation Bulletins posted on elected to all kinds of jobs from
portant to every member of the your bulletin boards. Find the time county sheriffs to congressmen,
Timber Wolf Division as skill in to read the several magazines Now with another election already
the use of his weapon. Without which concern themselves with in- being talked of the War Depart-
that knowledge we go into battle terpretation of the week’s events, ment says soldiers can’t be in the
Read YANK, the Army weekly Army and politics both.
only partly prepared.
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however, will be open for business as usual,
each day. Come in, soldier!