Milford chronicle., 1958-07-11
Local GuGrdsnten
Leave ArnlOry Sunday

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by performing appropriate staff
duties or as directed by section
schedules. The operation and in
telligence section under Major Will
liam Short, Jr., training officer,
and assisted by 1t John Bennett,
Jr., M/SGT Augustus Lindale, and
M/SGT Joseph Emory will set up
safety points at the south range
and be responsible for fire control
and selection of units to fire. SP3
Orville Arnold, SP3 Ralph Tucker,
and SP3 Daniel Pearson will be
safety lookoJIts for planes flying
into the firing zone when the 75mm
Skysweeper guns are firing.
The administrative section under
Major Donald Robinson, the Adju-
tant, will be responsible for all re-
ports required by Second Army,
distribution of mail, and getting
the troops paid at the end of camp.
CWO Edward Knight will take
charge of all special details, guard
duty, officer of the day roster, and
direct the message center. M/SGT
Herbert Jump, Sgt. Major, and
M/SGT Laurence Carey, Person
mel Sgt, will be responsible for
strength reports of all personnel
at Camp and will publish the daily
bulletin every day. SP3 Alexander
Pierce, PFC Nelson Gray, and PFC
William VOTERS will 90 the typ
ing, filing, and act as mail order
lies for the Bethany Beach base.
The supply section under CWO
Carter Minor and assisted by
M/SGT William Marvel will take
charge of assignment of buildings
at Bethany Beach and that all or
ganizations have sufficient sup
plies.
! 16Oth AAA Group Meteorolgist
Section, under command of CWO
Clement Nevins and assisted by
SIC Cecil Maloney, Chief of Sec,
ton, will be set up at the south
range at Fenwick Island This sec
tion is an electronic section that
provides certain data to the 75mm
gun crews. Data furnished consists
of wind speed and wind direction,
temperature, relative humidity.
This data is plotted and computed
into ballistic values, which in turn
are transmitted to the operations
section, who transmits it to the
guns where it is set in radar COM
puters to offset the effects of these
elements of the projectile in flight
in order to make hits or kills on
the target. The section is made up
of two teams-a winds team in
charge of SP1 Lee Dodd with SP2
George r. Roe and SP3 Robert Aus
tin as computers; a temperature
density team with SP1 Wayne V.
Vanauken in charge, SP3 Wayne
Harrington and SP3 Joseph Grit
fifth as cOmputers. The power is
supplied by large generator
known as a PE-95. This equipment
is in charge of PFC James Abbott.
At present, there is one vacancy in
the meteorologist section for an
assistant computer. Any young man
interested in this type training
should apply at State Armory, Mil
ford, Del, for further information.
The 160th Group communication
section directed by Major Wilbur
Frying, Jr., Commo Officer and
assisted by CWO Edward KINNEY,
Radar Officer, will be responsible
for all communications at Bethany
Beach, Base Camp and at the South
Range. The Commo Section is made
up of two teams with SGT Frank
Reed, Communication Chief. The
Radio Section, directed by SGT
John Prettyman will set up SCR
1873 radios and SCR SAB radios. at
the South Range. The operators are
PFC James Morgan, PFC Robert
Green, and PFC Orville Hammond.
SGT Charles Spicer, Wire Team
Chief, will take charge of laying
wire at the South Range for field
telephones from each 75mm gun to
the Safety Tower; SP3 Ormond
Porte, PFC Laurence Greenlee,
Jr., and PFC Richard Argo will
assist in laying of the wire. SP3