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______________ Camp Adair Sentn __________ Friday, August 27, 1943. Page Four "Men from Mars" Clean Up Some "Hot Stuff" How to Handle An Aerial Hot Foot SGT. ROY S AIA ANO demonstrates the correct method of handling and disposing of an incendiary bomb. He has sprinkled dirt on the area around the born’», and with a shovel has lifted the dirt and bomb together. He will drop the bomb into the pail of dirt on the right, where it will burn itself out without causing any damage. Note »hat th" sergeant is very carefully standing on the upwind side of the b. mb. as the fumes from it arc noxious.—Signal Corps photo. PART OF A CHEMICAL Warfare decontamination squad does its job on a mustard gas shell hole. Things to note: the “shuffle box” in the foreground, the proper mixing of plain dirt and chloride of lime, marking of the contaminated area, and the complete protective clothing on the men working directly by the shell-hole.—Signal Corps photo. Lesson in Decontaminating A Wall A MEMBER OF a Chemical Warfare decontamination squad works on a simulated wall area that has been contaminated by a vesicant gas.. Using the standard three-gallon spray apparatus which contains a slurry of chloride of lime and water, the man is carefully spraying the entire contaminated area. This same treat ment is used on any contaminated wooden surface except floors.— Signal Corps photo. Pretty Slick, These Chinese 'Ng'- That's All, Sir Fine Appearance Of 70th in Port land Wins Praise _______ Under Maj. Armstrong Section Centralizes All C.W.S. Supplies The officers and cadre of the 70th Division created a fine impres sion upon the citizens of Portland when they were in Portland last INSTRUCT NON-COMS I week for the exercises before the i Oregon premiere of “This Is the Though just a small branch of Army.” the Army Service Forces, the Post Major General John E. Dahl- Chemical Warfare Office, under the quist, divisional commanding gen direction of Maj. Earl S. Arm eral, received a highly compliment- strong. does big- things in Camp j ary letter from Mr. D. H. Bates, of Adair. ■ Portland, which was printed in last The principal duty is the receiv Saturday’s daily bulletin. ing, inspecting and issuing of all C.W.S. supplies, including training We reprint it here: ammunition, for the entire Post. “Yesterday I watched a group The C.W.S. Office acts as cus of men parade down Fourth todian and centralize« all th- »ap Street in Portland—the prelim plies, tnus enhancing tne security inaries to the Army Emergency of the Post. This, in, itself, is a Relief’s opening performance of highly specialized at d technical job. “THIS IS THE ARMY.” Another headache, to keep this “Never has such a well- small, five-man section of the sta groomed. disciplined outfit ever tion complement busy, is the pack been on parade here. Officers and ing, marking, and boxing of sur the excellent work of the non plus supplies that have to lie re commissioned officers reflect a turned to the depot after being good staff for your combat unit. turned in by the units stationed in I wish ‘Hirohito’ could see it in Camp. the making.” The Chemical Warfare Section The nucleus of the 70th has es conducts regular, prescribed. 30- tablished a fide reputation for it hour courses for the “gas non self in the short time since the coms” of the SCU and the non Division was activated. With the i division units stationed in Adair. fillers arriving, it is going to take ; The trained non-coms, in turn, con hard training and strict discipline duct 12-hour gas training courses to maintain these standards. for the men of their units. Cooperation with the Office of Civilian Defense is another phase Mess Sergeants Getting Medals thing vital out. The War Department is now But Private George T. Ng, Chin- awarding medals to Mess Serge ese soldier from San Francisco, ants. That’s right, mess sergeants. confirmed the information on his One Army cook recently got the card and insisted that Ng wasn’t Legion of Merit. an abbreviation or anything else, He is S/Sgt. Edward Dzuba of just his last name, and they would Schenectady, N. Y., and the 305th In any event, a recent addition have to take it or leave it. Medical Bn., and was cited for “ex to the Trailblazer Division is going And pronouncing it is easy, he ceptionally meritorious conduct in to find Army life in Camp Adair said, if you have a fair tenor voice the performance of outstanding very amusing or very trying—and or your diction is still in good service. He originated many un all because of his last name. i shape. usual and appetizing recipes for At least he’ll make his company Take any word like griping, or the utilization of left-over scraps. clerk happy whenever his last kissing, or the sound of a bullet as I This ingenuity has greatly reduced name has to be written out or you gratefully hear it ping into food losses from waste and spoil spelled out for any particular rea something solid a safe distance age. His messes have been out son. I away, pronounce it right by stress standing as to economy, appear But when it comes to pronounc ing the last syllable, hang on to the ance and cookery.” Must be some chow! ing it—well, that’s another story. sound and you have the pronun ciation of Private Ng’s last name. When Private Ng—yes, that’s And nothing happens when he But he can smile, amused, too, all there is to his name—came in with a group of fillers from the and so do the Trailblazers who spells it out loud. Maybe he’ll nick- Presidio of Monterey, Calif., last have already heard of Private Ng. ; name him. Friday, he presented a.tough prob But whatever happens is a mat Picture a tough, impatient top lem to the classification experts kick, seeing the name Ng on the ter of conjecture". in the Field House when they tried company roster for the first time In any case Private Ng was in to pionounce his name and even in company formation, not believ troduced to the Infantry and Army when they tried to believe that ing his eyes and trying to capture life when he was assigned to Com someone hadn’t made an error in the sound he should make to get pany I> of the 275th Regiment last typing his name, leaving some- his charge to sound off. Saturday. Maybe he’s used to it by now. Or maybe he’s cursing the fate that was responsible for giving him his last name and for causing him no end of explanations and embar- rassments during his twenty-two years of life. ChemicatWarfareMeri Do Large Job on Post ♦------------------------------------------------ the section have given up more than one Sunday to conduct gas schools for civilian air raid ward ens in nearby towns and cities. With Col. Gordon H. McCoy, Post Commander, putting great emphasis on fire control, the sec tion has added several hours of incendiary bomb-fighting instruc tion to the regular prescribed course in gas mask and gas cham ber drill and gas identification. Maj. Armstrong is the head of | this small, but efficient section, while Sgt. Ray Salvano, a graduate of the Edgewood Arsenal non-com school, is his right hand man and top-ranking non-com. With a minimum cf personnel they do a maximum cf work' in a superlative way anS deserve the praise and cotnniendation of every one on the Post. Chemical Warfare Head, Ninth Service Command, Visits Adair Last Week Col. John M. Morris, Chief of Chemical Warfare Branch. Ninth Service Command, visited Camp Adair last week. Col. Morris was accompanied by Maj. E. F. Armstrong, Post Chemi cal Officer, as he toured the Post. inspecting the preparedness and gas training of the SCU and at- tached troops. From here, the colonel proceeded of C.W.S. work, and the men of to Camp Abbot. THE LITTLE CORPORAL, ... By Dannheiser