United States Military Academy Camp Buckner - Mortar Yearbook (West Point, NY)

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FIRST PLATOON SECOND PLATOON THIRD PLATOON First Company First with First Company was the byword for Reed's Rang- ers. lt could not be said that this crew wasted any time trying to prove it. We moved into the field the first day under Skip MacDon- ald, and the ensuing week went with no let up, and yearling dead- beot seemed to be the figment of someone's imagination. After the third week things let up and we began to enjoy Buckner. After a good start, fate dealt us some bitter blows, and a few compan- ies slipped past us in company competition, but no one ever ap- proached us in spirit or in our ability to make the three second bell at reveille. We tore the Buckner stakes apart with half of the people at the top seemingly coming from our company with Dick Caldwell leading them all, but somehow got edged out. Once we got the drill streamer we held on to it. As Captain Reed said, we had fun, learned a lot, and it was A job well done by all.

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C MP BUCKNER OFFICER STAFF This is Buckner, its reveille runs, PRI, Ranges, Lectures, Demonstrations, Cleaning Details, Water- tront, and Hops. This is two months ot time. Two months during which the Class ot 1957 learn- ed the school of a soldier in the field. This is two months ot weather, rain, winds and every once in the while, sunshine. This is a lot of things, but however you may choose to look at it, these are the men who made it whatever it was-The Tacs.

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Second Company We were the best, and we knew it all the time, even if some of the others didn't get the word 'til late. Patton's Pan- thers set a lot of records in the field, but it wasn't all work. Who can forget the long free hours for swimming, boating, dragging, cleaning details, and cleaning details. With the influence of those two great Italians Scholtes and Miklinski, aided by Des there was a Little ltaly movement which was finally stamped out by those of us who couldn't un- derstand what was happening, only to have a movement to the rear of the barracks where we blitzed everything in sight ex- cept what we painted. With Moon and Jack teaming up to produce the Color Line show what more could you ask except Buddy Bullotta, and we had him too. Ted Jasper found a new popularity in the yearling class thanks to the first platoon who spread the good word, and thanks to our mysterious ways in the field Mr, Karam became the most used cry at Buckner. We had a great company and a swell bunch of guys. FIRST PLATOON L- SECOND PLATOON THIRD PLATOON