US Army Training Center - Armor Yearbook (Fort Knox, KY)

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FOURTH TRAINING BRIGADE fix l' COL John C. Hughes LT COL Robert M. Moulthrop Brigade Commander Battalion Commander CAPT Thomas R. Mac Callum 2LT Phillip Albert Company Commander Training Officer SI XTEENTH BATTALION Commenced Training: Completed Training 21 July 1969 12 September 1969 COMPA Y E

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gg wifi! The First US Army Noncommissioned Officer Academy offers this two-week course to basic training graduates who have dem- onstrated leadership ability. Final selection is based upon aptitude and intelligence level scores ton tests administered at the Recep- tion Stationj, coupled with trainee peer ratings and the company commander's rec- ommendation. Trainees report for the course imme- diately following basic training and sub- sequently are assigned to USATCA's lst and 2d Brigades for Combat Support or Armorf Reconnaissance Advanced Individual Train- ing. In the course they are taught leadership principles and duties as well as advanced training subjects, and they are given posi- tions as platoon guides and squad leaders in their advanced training company. Noncommissioned Officers Academy WQRQ Leadership trainees receive instruc- tion in the .50 caliber machine gun.

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1SGT Willie Gainey PSG Rios Castro First Sergeant Field Training NCO SGT Vernon H. Mc Kinley SSG Charlie F. Gunnells Asst. First Pla toon Sergea nt Second Pla toon Sergeant PSG Ike Davis SSG Otto M. Copeland Third Pla toon Sergeant Fourth Platoon Sergeant PSG Willis Gethers First Platoon Sergeant SGT Joseph Puglisi Asst. Second Platoon Sergeant SSG William A. Butler Asst. Fourth Platoon Sergeant