Word: ordnancemen
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...desert at China Lake, Calif., Army ordnancemen play catch with artillery shells. It is a dangerous and demanding game. For as scientists cram the shells with proximity fuses and nuclear warheads, the ordnancemen must learn how to protect the package on its way from gun to target. Their research requires that they examine shells after they have been subjected to the searing heat and crunching pressures of firing, but before they have been damaged in landing. So the old-fashioned weapon is getting space age treatment...
...buildings were crammed with motor parts, tires, thousands of tons of food. The wood from opened crates, carefully salvaged for fuel and for building barracks furniture, covered a ten-acre field. Everywhere swarmed the unsung workers of the Army's rear-area establishment: quartermasters, engineers, ordnancemen, specialists of a hundred sorts...
After the guns ceased firing, combat troops turned out to help the Ordnancemen sort and pile the spoils. Usable equipment was repaired and cleaned up in the Ordnance depots, which can fix anything from a field gun to a cookstove. But not all captured materiel was usable. Much of it was just plain junk...
...thoroughly committed to its new gadget. Ordnance ordered 17 of the destroyers, to be built by Reo Motor Car Co. at Lansing, Mich., expects them to be ready for test this spring. If they work as well as their designers (Manhattan's Trackless Tank Corp.) and some Ordnancemen think they will, quantity production will be an easy job for the U.S. motor industry...
From other posts the Army got tankers, artillerymen, engineers, cavalrymen, ordnancemen. Signal Corps officers, medical administrative men. And other fresh blood is pouring into the Army. From U.S. colleges this summer have come 8,000 graduates, with four years' R.O.T.C. training behind them-not finished officers but good officer material...
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