Seward daily gateway., 1926-01-13
CAREER OF BUCK PRIVATE IN US. 
 ARMY ISLAUDED
DESCENDANT OF VIKINGS SLOW. " CARVING OUT CAREER
 IN UNITED STATES

NEW YORK, Jan. IS. (P-Kiplins
 didn't invent his gentleman ranker'
 for in the armies of the world ther,
 has always been a sprinkling of mer
 of genius, birth, and fortune-lured tt
 the company of more humble souls by
 the magic of soldier life.
 1 And perhaps no mediaeval men-at
 arms or proud battalion of a pagar
 emperor ever boasted a more talented
 or pedigreed arrar of rear-rank bucks
 than does the present day army oI Uncle Sam.
 As witness the latest doughboy ex traordinary, Private Kristain Brandt
 U. s. A.-direct descendant of fierce
 Vikings, his father major-general in the Norwegian army, himself once a distinguished cadet in the West Point of his own country and later an Arc tic explorer, big game hunter, and ra. dio engineer. Brandt has just been discovered among the soldier students of the Army Signal School at Fort Mammouth, N. J.
 A mapped-out military career prov ing too tame, this intrepid young globe girdler had followed frozen trails in the South Polar regions and adventur- ed within the Arctic Circle, with many thrills between the two, before the new and fascinating science of radio intrigued his eager interest.
 It was while hunting whales in the Antarctic that his knowledge of radio first proved it's worth to the expedi- tion. Facing possible death from starvation, Brandt, after all other ways of communication had failed to bring relief, built his own radio station and brought the party in touch with out posts of civilization. Later this same station received recognition in the net of the International Radio Union, and since has become known as the larg- est floating station in the world.
 Although an explorer, whale hunter, and radio engineer, Brandt naturally had to be first soldier, his family having been connected with the Nor wegian army for more than three hun dred years. His father, Major-Gen. F. o. Brandt, now commanding the First Division, Norwegian Army, with visions of his own stars on his sons shoulders, sent him to the Military whle he was yet a boy.
 But young Brandt eft it all and joined an exploring expedition into the Far North. That was in 1920. Short y after passing Spitzbergen, the party got caught in the ice. Yet they did set up chain of food depots before returning, and for this Roal Amundsen he loPar Flyer of 1925, who used at east one of them, had cause to be thankful
 Back in Norway again Brandt now became interested in radio for the | irst time. This marked a turning point in an adventurous career. It vas his Antarctic experiences, howev- IT, that whetted his appetite to learn nore of the new science and he final y decided to come to America for ad- 'anced radio training.
 For ten months after his arrival in he United States he worked in the laboratories of the Radio Corporation America, at New Brunswick, N. J. his position he later resigned to en- CT the U. s. Army Signal Corps. His commanding officer at Fort Noun 1outh today said Brandt is showing imself no less a student than he was n explorer.
 In comparing life in the armies of orWay and America he finds cause regret that the American dough oy does not receive the gratitude of le Norwegian soldier who is invari- ply supplied with complimentary ckets to the best theatres and car es passes for the trolley cars, rail- 'ads and the steamship lines of the 'untry. Yet the American army man IS educational advantages far in ad- ance of those of any other soldier of 0 world PriVata Brandt ho1invac