US Army Training Center - Yearbook (Fort Bragg, NC)

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MILITARY INTELLIGENCE The primary function of the Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2, is to keep the commander informed regarcl- ing the enemy's situation and capabilities. His work concerns intelligence and counterintelligence, and with the assistance of liaison officers of units under his control he is able to collect, compile and evaluate all information of the enemy's capabilities. He super- vises the collection of information by radio position- finding and intercept methods. He is responsible for the reproduction and distribution of all maps and co- ordinates requests for aerial photographs. He super- vises the activities of all newspaper correspondents, photographers and broadcasters accompanying the troops, He is responsible formal! censorship, both of postal matters and the work of news correspondents, and supervises the preparation and use of codes and ciphers. He makes plans for the reception of visitors at headquarters and the escorting of the same. And he is charged with the dissemination of false informa- tion to the enemy, obstruction of enemy propaganda, and takes measures to refute enemy propaganda among the troops or the civil population of the theatre of operations. PAUL S. REINECKE Lieutenant Colonel Ci-2 PERSONNEL The function of the Assistant Chief of Staff, G-I, concerns the personnel of the Division. Both in com- bat and in garrison his responsibility is the soldier as a person. He supervises all functions of the Adjutant General, replacement of personnel, awarding of deco- rations and citations, in addition to other rewards and punishments. He is responsible for leaves of absence and furloughs, religious, recreational and welfare work, the Army postal service and strength, casualty, prisoner of war and other reports. He advises the commander on the morale of the personnel and is charged with the collection and disposition of strag- glers and prisoners of war. He is responsible for the internal arrangement of headquarters, sanitation, maintenance of law and order. He supervises relations with civil governments and civilians in a theatre of operation, including initial establishment and opera- tion of military government or martial law. He super- vises matters concerning personnel who are prisoners in enemy hands. And he is responsible for graves registration service and burials. CLIFTON H. FORBUSH Lieutenant Colonel Cv-I ri ' 34 1 :

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. r . .6 H I, f .J A f if We ' Fi Ar i it Q. to - ARK cCL RE coiowii U. S.A. CHIEF OF STAFF, 'I00th INFANTRY DIVISION Colonel Mark McClure was born in Anderson, Indiana, on February 6, l898, and attended DePauw University before he was a ointed to the United States Military Academy in l9l8. Upon his graduation from West Point in l922, he was PD commissioned a Second Lieutenant of Field Artillery and assigned to the 2nd Field Artillery Brigade at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. He was later transferred to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and in l926 was promoted to First Lieutenant. An assignment at Fort Meyers, Virginia, preceded his appointment to the faculty of the United States Military Academy. In l935 he was promoted to Captain and transferred to Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, where he remained until l938, when he returned to attend the Command and General Stalf School. He was then assigned to the Office of the Chief of Field Artillery and in July, l94O, he was promoted to Major. Re- maining in Washington, D. C., he was promoted in December, l94l, to Lieutenant Colonel. When this office was absorbed by the Headquarters of Army Ground forces in May, l942, he was selected to attend another course at the Command and General Staff School. He was later assigned to the 95th Division as G-3, where he remained until August 22, I942, when he was promoted to Colonel and transferred to the lOth Division as Chief of Staff.

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G-3 0PERNHONS AND WHHNING The Assistant Chief of Staff, G-3, is responsible for organization, training and combat operations. He coordinates and prepares plans for the organization and equipment of units and individuals, organization of schools of instruction, selection of training sites Gnd firing and bombing ranges, the publication of training directives, programs and orders. ln combat, he is charged with supervision of all operations, in- cluding tactical and strategical studies and estimates. He must study the tactical situation continuously, in- cluding location, morale and capabilities of the troops, needs for replacements, terrain and weather condi- tions and the status of equipment and supplies. He Prepares recommendations and reports based on the tactical situation. l-le is responsible for reconnais- sance and security measures, troop movements, tac- tical employment of units, defense of communication lines and tactical measures to preserve secrecy and effect surprise. KENNETH E. ECKLAND Lieutenant Colonel C-3 , g, ,Q . l ' - SUPPLY AND EVACUATION The Assistant Chief of Staff, G-4, is charged with the preparation of policies for and the supervision of execution of arrangements for supply, evacuation, transportation and other relative matters. He is responsible for advising the commander relative to the extent of the administrative support that can be given to any proposed strategical or tactical line of action and for recommendations as to the necessary decisions concerning supply and evacuation. He is also responsible for the procurement, storage and dis- tribution of all supplies, the location of supply, evac- uation and maintenance establishments, transporta- tion of supplies by land, air and water, construction and maintenance of roads and trails, docks and air- clromes, maintenance of equipment, recommendations for allocation of small arms, ammunition and anti-tanla mines, traffic control, construction, operation and maintenance of utilities and other facilities relating to supply, shelter, transportation and hospitalization, but exclusive of fortifications, evacuation and hos- pitalization of men and animals, salvage, collection and disposal of captured supplies, funds, and priority of expenditure. ROBERT M. STECMAIER Lieutenant Colonel C-4 ,M