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Shortage of magazine storage
space for ammunition now on hand
has led the Ordnance Department
to develop a process of burying
bombs "alive" to preserve them.
This project, still in the expert
mental stage, but giving every
promise of being completely sue
cessful, can result in substantial
savings. 1t will eliminate the need
for new magazine construction and
Il will reduce surveillance costs to
q minimum. At present, bombs
are stored in igloo magazines and
in outdoor barricaded sites. There
are now too few magazines, and
the outdoor site exposes bombs to
weathering.
About ESQ gross tons Of bombs
are being buried alive in each
"grave" at the Savannah Ordnance
Depot in northwestern Illinois.
Bomb parts and shipping bands
are taken off and stored elsewhere,
leaving only the bomb body, a
metal container filled with TINT.
The nose and tail fuse cavities are
filed with preservatives. Band
ages and grease cover threaded
sections. Finally, the entire bomb
is thoroughly coated with special
type Of preservative.
Each pile of bombs is covered
with earth to a minimum depth of
three feet at the center and tapered
to the sides to give drainage.
After the earth has settled, it is
covered with blacktop.
INTELLIGENCE Five univer-
stiles will train R0TC students
in military intelligence. The stu
dents must volunteer for such
study. The schools are the uni
versities of Missouri, Illinois, Me-
braska and Wyoming and Michi-
gan State College.
STRENGTH: "America's
strength" says General Eisen-
hover, sis the sum total of the
moral, economic and physical
strength of its citizens"
STANDARDS: "Would it sur
prise you," Maj. Gen. Leslie r.
Groves, head of the Armed Forces
Special Weapons Project, recently
asked an audience of veterans,
ITO know that only about 80 out
Of every 100 volunteers for our
new Regular Army and Air Force
can measure up. to today's high
enlistment standards 7"
an spite of our acute need for
manpower to raise and maintain
a volunteer Army of one million
men, we have had to raise the
standards" he added. "A truly
modern Army requires a higher
type of soldier than ever before.
The wide use of scientific material
resulting from the broad program
of research necessitates a superior
soldier"
METAL: The Army hopes to
uncover half a million tons of
scrap iron and steel at military
installations in the United States
by next July. In the year ended
last July 1, the Army salvaged
100000 tons of iron and steel and
thus helped to alleviate the seri-
GUS shortage of such metal.
MEAT: Only 90 per cent of the
nations meat production was pro-
cured for the armed forces in the
first half of 1947. Total produc-
ton during that period was H.
522,O00,00 pounds, and the Quar-
termaster Corps bought 25A,016,-
032 pounds of it. The Army's
Quartermaster Corps buys meat
for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps,
Coast Guard, the Maritime Com
mission and the Veterans Admin
istration.
MARRIAGEABLE: The Regular
Army's new second lieutenants will
be free to acquire brides along with
their gold bars. The restrictions
which would have prohibited the
marriage of second lieutenants
commissioned after July l, 1949
for q year after date of original
commission have been suspended
by the War Department.
The marriage ban was author
lied by Congress in 1889, with
the stipulation that it would be
put into effect in 1912. 1t was
waived by the War Department in
March. 1912 for the duration of
the war. Regulations forbidding
the marriage of cadets at West
Point remain in effect.