Word: g3
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forrestal had already acted. The story around the Pentagon was that he telephoned Steelman and told him that the wording of the order was unthinkable. He sent the document to Major General Harold Bull, deputy director of G3, with instructions to take out the "unthinkable" passages and write an order which could be issued without scaring the wits out of the whole nation, if not the world. When General Bull finished his draft it was forwarded to Harry Truman on his campaign train...
...four-engined Andy Andrews was too valuable to keep on any Army shelf. When General George Marshall became Chief of Staff he brought Andrews back as his G3, the first airman on the General Staff. His war assignments next took him to the Panama defense command, then to command of all forces in the Middle East, finally to London and the European theater...
Last week the U.S. people got two reports on the state of their new Army. One was from Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall. The other was from Brigadier General Harry Lewis Twaddle,† who last week took over the General Staff division (G3) in charge of Army mobilization, operations, organization and training. Gist of both reports: the Army is over the hump. It is far better off than was the U.S. Army of 1917. It will soon be the first Army-in-being, ready to fight, which the U.S. ever had before entering...
...G3. For end results, most important man on the General Staff is G3. His job is training the Army and operating it in the field. When George Marshall was appointed Chief of Staff, he set the conservatives of the Army back on their heels by picking for G-3 the first Air Corps officer ever to head a General Staff division: deep-chested, friendly Frank Maxwell Andrews. Onetime cavalryman, Frank Andrews was the first head of the GHQ Air Force as temporary Major General, went back to a colonelcy when his tour of duty was over, came back...
Besides the Chief, the General Staff consists of six Brigadier Generals. They are the Deputy Chief, the head of the War Plans Division, the four "Gs": Personnel (G-1), Military Intelligence (G-2), Operations & Training (G3) and Supply (G-4). Unlike their boss, V. M. I.-man Marshall, all of today's General Staff's Division Chiefs are West Pointers. All are field soldiers, two have had diplomatic service in Europe or Asia, all are young as U. S. general staffs go (the youngest 55, the eldest 60). Caught between wars, soldiers of an army which was largely...