US Army Training Center Fort Ord - Yearbook (Fort Ord, CA)

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CPT Donald W. Stewart Company Commander LTC John Q. Arnette Battalion Commander COL Frank E. Burgher Brigade Commander COMPANY C Started Basic Training: 16 January 1967 FIRST BATTALION FIRST BRIGADE Graduated: 11 March 1967

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MAJOR GENERAL ROBERT GEORGE FERGUSSON Commanding General General Fergusson was born In Chicago, III., on 20 May 1911. He attended Beloit College in Wisconsin and in 1932 entered the United States Military Academy from where he was graduated in 1936, being commissioned in the Cavalry. His first assignment was as a troop officer in the 11th U.S. Cavalry, Monterey, California. He served with the Pacific Coastal Frontier, San Francisco, and later in Hawaii with the Artillery Command. A few months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, he returned to the Mainland and was Commander, 7th Reconnaissance Squadron (Mechanized), 7th Motorized Division at San Luis Obispo, California. Shortly after the redesignation of the 7th as the 7th Infantry Division, Gen¬ eral Fergusson—then a Lieutenant Colonel—was assigned to the Division ' s General Staff. He transferred his commission from Cavalry to the Infantry and accompanied the Division to Fort Ord for later employment in the Aleutian Islands. General Fergusson participated in the Aleutian Islands (Attu), Central Pacific (Kwajalein), and Philippine (Leyte) campaigns. Subsequent assignments included G-2 of the Central Army Pacific Base Command in Hawaii, and later, as Deputy G-2, Headquarters, United States Army Pacific. After attending the Strategic Intelligence School he became an instructor at the Command and General Staff College where he served until January 1948 when he attended the Armed Forces Staff College. From July 1948 to July 1949 he was Chief, Dissemination Branch, Intelligence Division, Department of the Army. Other tours included Army Representative on the Staff, First Task Fleet, United States Navy, Coronado, Calif.; Commanding Officer, 3rd Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, Fort Ord; Korea where he served as Deputy G-2 in charge of Combat Intelligence, Headquarters, Eight Army, from July 1950 to July 1951; student Army War College, Carlisle, Pa., and graduated in June 1952; Chief, Southeast Asia Branch, Foreign Military Affairs, Office of the Secretary of Defense; Deputy Chief of Staff, Headquarters, United States Army, Pacific, Hawaii; Commanding Officer, 14th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. Following the Army ' s adoption of the Pentomic Division Concept, he was named Commanding Of¬ ficer, 1st Battle Group, 14th Infantry. In August 1957 he was assigned to the Naval War College as Chief of the Army Advisory Group. On July 12th, 1961 he was assigned as Assistant Division Commander, 24th Infantry Division in Augsburg, Germany. On November 1, 1962 he was promoted to the grade of Major General as Chief of Staff, Headquarters, Central Army Group (NATO), Seckenheim, Germany. He assumed Command at Fort Ord on July 1, 1965. BRIGADIER GENERAL WILLIAM E. SHEDD, III Depiity Commanding General Brigadier General William E. Shedd was born in Washington, D. C., on 20 January 1920. He was graduated from the Fishburns Military School at Waynesboro, Va., in 1937 and commissioned a 2d Lieutenant in 1942 upon completion of the U. S. Military Academy. Brig. Gen. Shedd joined the 14th Armored Division when it was activated in 1942. He served as a tank company and headquarters company commander during the division ' s training period prior to entering combat in Europe in World War II, where he was in three major campaigns. After the war he remained in Europe on the staff of the 3d U. S. Army and U. S. Forces Austria, returning to the U. S. in July 1948, being assigned to Fort Knox with the 3d Armored Division. He also attended the Advanced Armored Course there. Other assignments include a tactical officer at West Point; the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.; U. S. Military Assistance Group, Republic of Philippines; commander, 44th Tank Battalion, 82d Air¬ borne Division. During this tour he became a qualified paratrooper. After serving three years (1956-59) on the faculty of the Command and Gen¬ eral Staff College, he attended the Army War College and from there became G3 Plans Officer with Headquarters, U. S. Army Pacific and Hawaii. He next served first as aide and later executive officer to the Commander in Chief, USARPAC. In 1964 he was Brigade Commander and later Chief of Staff of the 2d Armored Division, a position he held until June 1965 when he became Senior Advisor to the Capital Military Region, Viet Nam. He reported to the U. S. Army Training Center, Infantry, on 15 May 1966, as a Colonel. He was promoted to brigadier general on 1 September 1966.

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2LT Forrest E. Mueller Training Officer 2LT Joseph L. Soczek, Jr. Training Officer 1LT James N. Schmit Training Officer E-8 Charles Majors PSG Leonardi Trevino PSG Gibson PSG Vera SSG Alford First Sergeant Senior Drill Sergeant Drill Sergeant Drill Sergeant Drill Sergeant SSG Huey SSG R. S. Matsumoto SGT Klein SGT Parker SGT Martin Drill Sergeant Training NCO Drill Sergeant Drill Sergeant Drill Sergeant Drill Sergeant