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

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Top: Personnel of Budget and Accounts Branch .,.. Center: Personnel of Disbursing Branch .... Bottom: Personnel of Audit Branch. 5l

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WAR BOND SECTION FISCAL DIVISION OFFICERS Left to right: Col. D. R. Nimocks, C. W. O. Pendley, W. O. IJGj Patterson, Major Calpestri, Major Pettway, Lt. Myers, Major McNeill. FISCAL HIVISIIJ The Fiscal Division, whose Director is the ofhcial pay- master of the Post, was established during the reorganiza- tion of Post Divisions in January 194-4. Colonel Moses Alexander. the Finance Officer, previous to its establish- ment, was the first Director of the Division. The present Director is Colonel David R. Nimocks, a veteran of many years of service, in this country and abroad. The Division consists of three branchesg these branches, with their chiefs, areg Receipts and Disbursement, IVIajor l. H. Mc- Neillg Budgets and Accounts, lVlajor Richard W. Pettwayg and Audit, Wairrant Oflicer Wa1'cI Pendley. The Receipts and Disbursement Branch receives and dis- burses all appropriated funds pertinent to the Post. the Fayetteville Quartermaster Market Center, and State Selec- tive Service for North Carolina. The Budget and Accounts Branch prepares estimates of appropriated fund require- ments for all elements of the Post and accounts for all ap- propriated funds allotted the Commanding General, Fort Bragg to meet budgetary requirements. The Audit Branch audits all appropriated and non-appropriated funds on the Post, for which expenditures the Commanding General is responsible. 50 Besides paying the oflicers and men of Fort Bragg. the Fiscal Division pays out large sums to the civilian em- ployees of the Post and through the commercial accounts section makes payments to commercial firms for goods or services rendered to the government at Fort Bragg. Every effort is made to promptly pay these commercial accounts, as in the case of payment to enlisted men. The Division has achieved such success in this held that a letter from the Quartermaster General was received, commending the Division for its cooperation with the Fayetteville Quarter- master Market Center. Farmers of this area have been paid so promptly that they have the greatest conhdence in and desire to deal with the Market Center, thus facilitating the procurement of subsistence for the Army and Navy. Disbursements of approximately fz'5I50,000,0I7tI and 2,000,000 payments to military and civilian personnel i11 two and one-half years attest to the magnitude of the work carried on by this Division. Total War Bond sales through payroll deductions and cash sales, supervised by the bursing Agent, who acts as Bond lssuing Ollicer, have to- talled well over a million and a quarter dollars since May, I942.

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SUPPLY DIVISION OFFICERS L to R: Lt. Bashford, Capt. Nauman, Lt. Col. McCartney Isittingj, Capt. Mulcbay Istandingl, Lt. Col. Goodman Isittingj, C.W.O. Hudson Istandingj, Capt. Puckett, Capt. Stennah, Capt. Messman, Ca pt. Jones. 5 PPLY From Pearl Harbor until August, 1942, the S-4 of the Post Commanderfs Staff had responsibilities which corres- pond in general to those of the present Director of Supply. The organization of which he was head operated all central- ized supply and maintenance activities at Fort Bragg. When the first Supply Division was organized on August 20, 1942, Lieutenant Colonel Landon C. Rosser, Post Exe- cutive Offlcer assumed the additional duties of Director of Supply. Three major reorganizations have been made since then. The first Supply Division comprised seven branches. These branches, and their Chiefs, were as follows: Quarter- master, Lieutenant Colonel William K. Dickson, Ordnance, Colonel Garland T. Rowland, Signal, Major Marlin S. Moody, Chemical Warfare Service, Lieutenant Stanley F. Scholl, Post.Exchange, Major Warren S. Miller, Trans- portation, Lieutenant Eugene V. Fisher, and Engineer Property, Lieutenant Joseph E. Stannah. The Quartermaster Motor Maintenance District was organ- ized and put into operation on October 1, 1942. On March 28, 1943, the designation 'of the District was changed to Fort Bragg Motor Transport District, and on August 1, 1943, it was transferred to the Ordnance Department. The first major reorganization of the Supply Division was made in November 1942. Lieutenant Colonel Horace L. Johnson was named Director of Supply on that date. The reorganized Division consisted of the following branches: Control, Service Detachment, Automotive, Com- munication, Distribution, Subsistence, Maintenance, Trans- portation, and Army Exchange. OFFICE OF PURCHASING BRANCH HIVISIU The Supply Division was designated Supply and Service Division on February 9, 1943, with Lieutenant Colonel Johnson as Director. The constituent branches, and their Chiefs, under the new plan were: Quartermaster, Lieutenant Colonel Dickson, Ordnance, Lieutenant Colonel Walter D. Koch, Ordnance Motor Transport, Colonel Jacob H. Spangler, Signal, Lieutenant Colonel Moody, Chemical Warfare Service, Captain James B. Costello, Engineer Property, Captain Stannah, Transportation, Captain Earl N. Ziegler, Supply Detachment, Captain Virlyn Y. Jones. On October 20, 1943, Colonel Dickson was named Director of the Division. Other appointments made at this time included: Lieutenant Colonel Calvin H. Burkhead, Chief, Signal Branch, Lieutenant Colonel Joseph A. Rozell, Chief, Ordnance Branch, Major Earl Loden, Chief, Supply Detachment Branch, and Lieutenant Charles DeBrell. Chief, Chemical Warfare Service. On December 1943, Lieutenant Colonel Burkhead became Director, Combined Maintenance Branch, Captain Francis M. 'Mulchay, Chief, Storage Branch, and Lieutenant Andrew H. Warlick, Post Signal Officer. Lieutenant Colonel Koch became Chief of the Ordnance Branch later, in December, 1943. Integration of maintenance activities of the Supply Branches was accomplished, at this time, when all main- tenance shops were combined. ln the execution of their work the Combined Maintenance Shops of Fort Bragg have since done some repair work for other military installa- tions. The Post Engineer Heavy Maintenance Shop was merged with the combined shops in July, 1944.