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

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O CZ Offlnan . Q P04 tntuio' View O Gicl- Left 'co right: Lt. Col. Koch, Major Rehm, Lt. Knapp, C. W. O Milewski, Capt. Veltre, Capt. Lewis. UHIINANIIE The Post Ordnance Office, since 1942 an important part of the Supply Division, was designated as one of the seven Technical Services in January, 1944. Through this change the Post Ordnance Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Walter D. Koch, who succeeded Colonel G. T. Rowland in that posi- tion on 6 November 1942, became responsible for the su- pervision of all ordnance activities under the jurisdiction of the Post Commander. He supervises the functions per- taining to requisition, storage, distribution, issue, inspec- tion and classification of Ordnance supplies and equipment. lncluded in this category are armament, vehicles, and am- munition. Lt. Colonel Koch is presently assisted by five oliicers and a staff of approximately 350 persons, almost all of whom are civilians. The duties of the Branch as pertains to vehicles and ve- hicle spare parts are carried out by the automotive section under Captain Julian F. Lewis. The automotive needs of all activities at Fort Bragg are supplied by this section. ln so doing approximately 300 tons of vehicle spare parts are used monthly. In the Redistribution Pool, alone, an aver- age of 6,000 vehicles are stored daily, with a monthly turn- over of nearly 2,500 vehicles. This section makes numer- ous shipments of vehicles direct to Ports of Embarkation from which places they will be sent overseas. Properly servicing the vehicles for shipment and properly performing the in-storage preservative maintenance of thousands of vehicles is the tremendous job which is performed by the Redistribution Pool. The armament section, which supplies all types of weap- ons from bayonets to the largest field pieces, has a difficult job to perform. The job is difficult because it has to be done by a small amount of personnel and always in a much too short period of time, and, at Fort Bragg, almost every conceivable type of armament equipment must be handled. Included in the duties of this section is the painstaking job of inspecting and classifying armament materiel-with the thousands of slnall but highly important items which are included under the term armament spare parts. ln a nor- mal month approximately 3,000 tons of armament materiel are handled in this section. Last but not least of the major elements under the Post Ordnance Officer is the Magazine Section where all types of ammunition are supplied to units on the Post. ln a recent month the Magazine issued more than 2,000,000 rounds of small arms ammunition and handled more than 1,600 tons of heavy artillery ammunition. The Post Ordnance Organization by its present and past performances has indicated that it is living up to the tra- dition of the Ordnance Department, which is to uKeep the Troops Rolling and Firingf'

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.-ya, .auf GENERAL XNCXNERATOR want souiiasf W Top left: Whirlpool tub for ailing limbs in Physio-tlwerapy Section of Regional Hospital .... Top right: Eminent American psychiatrists in- spect work done at Regional Hospital .... Center left: Bed patients talce calisthenics at Regional Hospital .... Center right: General lncin- erator and Soalrage Pit at Sanitation Demonstration Area .... Bottom left: Laboratory Staff in Mosquito Control Wort.

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Small arms classification. Partial view of ammunition supply point. Ammunition warehouse, magazines. Armament parts warehouse. ,ILQS Wag wie' WEWM Just a few ot the thousands of vehicles in the redistribution pooi. lnteirior view of automotive parts warehouse. 67 i