The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-13
FIFTH ARMY IN
 WIDE PROGRAM
 OF ORGANIZATION

With 5th Army, Italy - (U.P0- An intensive post-V-E Day inform ation, orientation and education program of eight weeks duration, leading of with an army-wide showing of Two Down and One To Co.," War Department film on re- deployment of forces is now in full swing throughout the 5th Army area.
 Weekly orientation periods for all units, formerly single hour each week, now have been length ened to two non-consecutive hours weekly. A breakdown of the the- ater-Wide eight-week orientation program includes the exhibition of Two Down and One To Co., for one hour for the first week and for the second hour, an explanation and discussion of the film.
 Distribution of the film was a triumph of speed and organization. Within 60 hours after the receipt of the film in the 5th Army, more than 72,000 troops or almost half Of the 5th Army, had seen it.
 Discuss Readjustment
 The second week of the program will be devoted to discussion of the readjustment program and how 1t affects the individual soldier. Tho third and fourth weeks of the program will be for the soldier review of a subject he knows well from experience the North Afri- can campaign. This will not be rehash of facts the soldier already knows, but will place emphasis on the soldiers individual contribu- tloa to victory in this longest of all Allied campaigns against Ger many.
 In the fifth and sixth weeks of the program, the soldiers attention will be turned toward an enemy still undefeated - Japan. He will discuss and hear talks on the war In the Pacific from Pearl Harbor to the Philippines and Ryukyu in- vasions, the nature and character 1stics of Japan and the Japanese and the relation of the China Burma campaigns to the United States Pacific war effort.
 The seventh week of the program will be devoted to a discussion of the home front and its political and industrial developments in SUD- port Of the war. Further discus sions of the home front, particu- larly on domestic problems caused by the war, will be taken up in the eighth and last week of the pro- gram and final discussion subject will be further information on what is required of each soldier in the redeployment plan.
 Unit Schools Planned
 Now, with VIE Day behind them and either new military tasks or discharge facing them, many sol- diers in the Mediterranean theater and in the 5th Army are looking ahead to the Army education and school program. designed to im- prove the efficiency of the individ- ual man as a soldier and to afford him useful work and further edu- cation while he is awaiting rede- ployment.
 Between 45 and 50 officers a week from the 5th Army units are now attending training school for off, cers who will teach in unit schools. These officers are chosen by their respective commanders on the basis of merit and most are unit infor- nation and education officers. These unit schools have a proposed curriculum of 2 subjects, including courses on personnel management, business, advertising, agriculture and how to manage and organize a small business. Also included are some strictly academic courses in literature, languages, mathe- matics and many others.
 At present available for educa- tonal and general information are about 1,500,000 textbooks issued by the United States Armed Forces Institute.