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Physical requirements are lower than for the Air Corps. Eyesight: 20/40 correctible to 20/20. Age: under 30 from civilian life, or under 32 from Army personnel. Graduates become staff sergeants and learn to sing verses to the tune of the Caisson Song...
...bullets into a wood and earth bunker at Buffalo. In the Army's first public demonstration of warplane firepower since Pearl Harbor, the gas-pipe-like guns threw more than 387 Ib. of lead and armor-piercing steel per minute, clattering like a dozen riveting hammers inside a caisson...
...command "Press in review," given by Cadet Colonel James G. Hayes. Regimental Commander of the Army ROTC, the long times of field artillerymen. Quartermasters, Naval Reservists and Naval Supply units moved out of their positions. The band struck up the field artillery "Caisson Song" as the massed batteries paraded across the field toward the spectators, then wheeled to the left to pass before the reviewing stand. The 3000 onlookers stoop up in the stands to view the massed columns, with flag dipped and eyes right, pass before the reviewing stand
...been ill for several months. His column was on taxes and prices. It began: "There appears to be no end to the lack of frankness and coordination among high government officials. ..." A few hours later, Death, as it must to all men, came to Old Ironpants. A caisson carried General Johnson to Arlington cemetery, where he was buried with full military honors. The newspapers did not say so, but he was buried with full civilian honors too. For, above all things, all Hugh Johnson ever asked of his country was a chance to serve...
Changes hitting the Mil Sci Department last week featured the opening of a new Regimental Headquarters in Grays 39-40. This space is to be used as an assembly hall, the Headquarters for the Caisson Club, and the military library. It was announced at the same time that First Lieutenant Kenneth L. Booth '39, instructor in Mil Sci 1 and assistant professor in Military Science and Tactics, will be transferred to an armored division by the middle of the week...