Word: g3
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Earning his passport, Craig served well as a divisional staff officer (G3) with the 80th Infantry Division, which landed on Utah Beach and was in combat for 239 days in Europe in 1944-45. With the 80th Craig picked up administrative experience under heavy pressure, learned to shave with toilet soap (which he still uses instead of shaving cream), and made an important acquaintance. One day, when General Dwight Eisenhower visited the division's headquarters in the basement of a brick school building in the Saar, Major Craig was assigned to brief the general on the division...
...manpower quotas without drafting 18-year-olds through a universal military service and training program, the Army announced that it was closing its doors on the most obvious source of available manpower. Unless the world situation suddenly worsens, said Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, the Army's new G3* (assistant chief of staff for operations), the Army will call up no more National Guard divisions or major units of its Organized Reserve...