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These student officers, ranging in rank from Second Lieutenant to Captain, have been selected from various Quartermaster Corps units throughout the country for training in higher echelon supply work...
These student officers, ranging in rank from Second Lieutenant to Captain, have been selected from various Quartermaster Corps units throughout the country for training in higher echelon supply work...
...last echelon handles selected cases brought all the way home-those requiring long convalescence before they can return to duty. And going home is often better than medicine for those who are able to make the trip...
...Warden of Cambridge zone 2, followed Mrs. DeRoth, speaking from the American angle in civilian defense. The main difficulty in the American setup at present, according to him, is that there are no nationwide principles of civilian defense. Central authority has been ineffective, and each lower echelon of administration has issued its own attempt at regulations, most of which have contradicted each other, he said...
...machine guns firing through ports guarded by revolving steel discs synchronized to the guns' tempo, each manned by one officer or non-com and one private. Of these, five made a squadron, three squadrons a company (plus the unit leader's car, radio car and reserve echelon), three companies a battalion, three battalions to a 135-tank regiment, plus reserves. Two regiments of breakthrough and two of assault tanks made a 400-tank armored division...