US Army Training Center - Yearbook (Fort McClellan, AL)

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4 Q 96 1 N 4 v s .bw 'WM R - Q ' 53 '51 f fre' .9 '5 q v fr'5' .5 5 r 'I llllll 1 Q' .. wh COLONEL CALEB J.AHCHER Colonel Caleb J. Archer was born in Lindsay, Oklahoma, on 22 December 1933. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1957 and was commissioned a Regular Army Second Lieutenant in the Military Police Corps. Colonel Archer's military assignments include: Launcher Platoon Leader and Battery Executive Officer, 3d Missile Battalion, 43d Artillery lNike Herculesl, Clementon, New Jersey, Operations Officer and Executive Officer, 570th MP Company, Frankfurt, Germany, Chief, Physical Security-Missile Site Security Division, US Army Military Police School, Fort Gordon, Georgia, Company Commander, 212th MP Company fSentry Dogl, Chief, Physical Security Division, US Army, Vietnam, Author-Instructor and Military Police Corps Special Representative, US Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Provost Marshal, 3d Infantry Division, Wurzburg, His civilian education includes a MA degree in Police Science and Administration from Washington State University. Colonel Archer's military education includes completion of the Command and General Staff College and the US Army War College. His awards include the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star Medal, Meritorious Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, Army Commendation Medal, General Staff identification Badge, and the Army Parachute Badge. Colonel Archer is married to the former Jacquelin Shaul of Woodward, Oklahoma and they have three children: Jill, 18, who is a student at Cameron University, Jamie, 15, and Jack 12.

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1942 WAAC formation at Fort Dea- llolnea, Iowa 1943 Obstacle course at an Army Alr Corps base Arrlvlng at cmm, ltaly i 1944 Waco landing on a Norman- dy beach E, i 4 1944 O 1945 A finance office in New Somewhere ln England. Guinea Leaving billets for work i-usronv QF THE On 14 May 1942 Congress enacted legislation creating the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. On 1 July 1943, by a' subsequent act of Congress the WAAC became the Women's Army Corps, a component ofthe Army of the United States. The first Director was Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby. During the first year of its existence the Women's Army Corps opened five 'training centers. The first was at Fort Des Moines, Iowa. Others were established at Daytona Beach, Florida, Fort Oglethorpe, Geor ia, Fort Devens, Massachusetts, and at Camp Ruston, Louisiana. WORLD WAR ll A WAAC contingent arrived at Allied Forces Headquarters in North Africa early in 1943. In November of the same year the 1st WAC Separate Battalion was sent to Caserta, Italy. Other WACs were sent to England and as far away as Cairo, Egypt. January 1944 marked the arrival of the first WACs in the Pacific, ln New Caledonia and in May 1944 a WAC unit was assigned to Sidney, Australia. LSTs landed WACs on the beaches of Normandy in July 1944, just a little more than a month after the invasion of Europe by allied forces. At the same time other members of the Women's Army Corps were assuming duties in the China-Burma-India Theatre of Operations. The women of the corps served where they were needed from Europe to China. THE POST-WAR YEARS 1 With the termination of hostilities in 1945 it seemed that women were no longer needed and in August 1945 enlistments in the Women's Army Corps were closed. However in February 1946 the War Department announced plans to utilize WACs to meet the critical shortage of skilled personnel. The Army also announced the preparation of legislation to make the Women's Army Corps a permanent 'part of the Army. By October 1946 the strength of the Corps had dropped from a peak of 99,000 to approximately 11,000 women. REGULAR ARMY STATUS On 12 June 1948 President Truman signed into law the Women's Armed Services Integration Act. In July of that year the first WACs enlisted in the Regular Army and in December of the same year the first WAC officers were appointed in the Regular Army. Enlistments to civilians were reopened and in September 1948 the WAC training center at Camp Lee was opened. With the beginning of the Korean War women were again needed in great numbers. Many of nthose who had served in world war II responded 'to the eau. New WAC detachments were established and those already in existence were doubled in size as women assumed duties in Okinawa and Japan in support of the Eighth US Army in Korea. A ' ln 1950 the Army initiated action to establish a' permanent center for the Women's Army Corps. Fort McClellan was selected and by August of 1954 all