The Apache sentinel., 1943-07-30
Human Interest Abounds
In Our Civilian Personnel
Division That Once Was it and Miss" Now Efficient Mature
Going Concern"

been set up is that on employees re-
lations, whose chief functions Will
be to determine whether sufficient
TRANSPORTATION and recreation are.
provided for civilians on the Post
as we'll as to ''get at the root OF
the reasons for unusual turnoVers
in civilian employment. The office
staff consists of 81 persons not in
Guiding the officer.
Constant changes of orders that
come from national, regional and
local commands, mean that things
are continuously being changed
around the Civilian Personnel Of
flee. Chief headaches of these
changes are those involving the is
suance of bonds and checks, and
VINO regulations relative to en-
ployes going from one Civil Service
job to another.
1t is these regulations that often
add human interest to an other
wise drab day around Civilian Per-
Sonnel.
MdHy,
The family of an electrical en-
gineer is blessed with the arrival OF
bundle from Heaven. The wife is
no longer able to travel to and fro
from Tombstone to Fort Bliss where
her husband is employed. The cleo
trical engineer quits his job in order
to work at Fort Huachuca and
commute daily to and from his home
at nearby Benson. However in quit
ting his job he overlookS one de-
tail, getting clearance from the
Civil Service Board at Fort Bliss.
At Fort Huachuca he can be hired,
there's a need for his services-but
not until he has been cleared. He,
may wait several days or week,
but if she left his former employer
without prejudice his clearance will
come through. That's where Civilian
Personnel comes in.
On lot of Posts, soldiers wives
seeking employment are looked
down upon. Civilian Personnel at
Fort Huachuca, however, tries to
help them. Wives, girl friends visit
ing husbands and SweetheartS come
to the Post to visit for few days"
find themselves at the end of three
days on the verge of being put out
of the Guest House. They learn
that if they are working they can
get some sort of housing accomoda-
tions and be allowed to remain on
the Post indefinitely. That's where
Civilian Personnel comes in.
The Civilian Personnel branch has
only one complaint to air: It wishes
job-seeking wives and stranded
sweethearts wouldn't wait until their
time is up (the third day. at the
Guest House before they come to
the Office to be processed for en-
ployment-and to get an extension
of their time of residence.
Wives Employed Here
Wives of many soldiers in SOU
1922, and the 92nd Division have
been enabled to remain here, their
loved ones because of the quick and
thorough job of processing that can
be done by the Fort Huachuca Ci-
villain Personnel office. Specialized,
clerical, post exchange and laundry
jobs have been made available for
soldiers wives. Whenever and wher-
ever possible soldiers wives are
placed on jobs for which they are
peculiarly suited and in some cases
the office has cooperated to the
extent of arranging for soldiers
wife to be given transfer from a
Civil Service job on another Post or
in distant city to Fort Huachuca
where she can be near her One-A-
in-the-A Army
In order to render the highest
possible type of service to mill
tary officers whose civilian help
must efficiently replace military
personnel, the Civilian Personnel
branch justifies its existence. 1t
receives added justification when it
serves also to keep alive romance
and unite Gf only for brief pc
riod) Var-seperated Army wives
and husbands.
There's plenty of human inter-
est in Civilian Personnel-if you
know where to look for it.-TT.G.
1t. Colonel Ray L. Cecil
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