Armored Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, March 19, 1965 Page: 3 of 28
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Friday March 191965
Providing wind and tempera
ture information for Division
Artillery gathering weather data
for the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration and
providing data on radiological
fallout in this area for the Radio
logical Center of Fort Hood
are some of the duties of the
meteorological section of 2nd
Armored Division Artillery.
Whenever Division Artillery
goes to the field you can be
Two 'Texans'
Very Happy
To Be Back
Saturday will mean far more
to Maj. Gen. Ralph E. Haines
Jr. than taking over the ar
mor-packed III Army Corps at
Fort Hood.
It's also homecoming for the
general and his wife Sally both
born elsewhere but a pair of
people who "have completely
adopted the Lone Star State."
They'll come to Fort Hood
for the change of command
ceremony after spending their
leave time in Texas with rel
atives in San Antonio since de
parting the general's last duty
station in Washington's Penta
gon.
"Feeling about Texas the
way we do quite obviously Sal
ly and I are very happy to be
back in our 'home state' the
general commented to a friend
by telephone from San Antonio.
The general is quick to point
out that his birthplace in New
Jersey was a circumstance
created by military service
there of his parents Brig. Gen.
Ralph E. Haines now retired
in California and the late Mrs.
Haines.
But otherwise his past is
steeped in Texas:
He graduated from Texas Mil
itary Institute in San Antonio
in 1930 and entered the Army
via cadetship at West Point
from Texas. The upcoming as
signment as III Corps comman
der at Fort Hood is his third
duty station in Texas his
first Army service was at Fort
Bliss at El Paso and from
1960-June 1963 he had been on
duty at Fort Hood departing
here as commander of the 1st
Armored (Old Ironsides) Divi
sion.
He and his wife were married
in Texas and her family is
the late Maj. Gen. and Mrs.
Innis P. Swift of San Antonio.
Their first son Palmer now an
Army lieutenant was born in
Texas and a second son Wil
liam was appointed to West
Point last year by Texas Con
gressman W. R. Poage.
Even part of his family is
presently in the Fort Hood area
—Lt. Henry S. Cherry (San An
tonio) stationed at adjacent
Killeen Base.
And one more thing he's like
ly to ever remember: on Sat
urday morning he'll swap the
two stars he received here sev
eral years ago as a major gen
eral for the three stars of a
lieutenant general in a cere
mony prior to accepting com
mand of the III Corps and Fort
Hood.
MEDAL FOR COLONEL
Lt. Col. Paul N. Wimert Jr.
(Westminster Md.) comman
der of Fort Hood's 319th Mili
a I el
Army) has been awarded the
Army Commendation Medal.
Col. Wimert was presented the
medal by Maj. Gen. George R.
at he I I I or an
Hood acting commander Mar.
17.
TWO ON ONE Out of less than a half dozen holders of the Distin
guished Pistol Badge in the 2nd Armored Division two are in the same tank.
Lt. Geoffrey S. Moakely (New Haven Conn.) platoon leader and tank com
mander and his gunner Sgt. Thomas J. Blake (Annapolis Md.) both have the
award and both are on one tank in Co. of the 3rd Brigade's 1st Bn. 66th
Armor. (U.S. Army Photo)
Radiological Center
Aids DivArty Guns
sure that this "weather" sec
tion knows what Mother Na
ture's forces are doing. The ar
tillery units use this informa
tion when they calibrate their
big guns.
CWO Elmer Zahornian (Cleve
land Ohio) is a ballistic meteor
ology technician at the station.
He and his men send up bal
loons every day which provide
the necessary weather informa
tion.
However whenever the artil
lery units are more active the
section needs more reports. For
example in January it sent
up some 155 balloons.
CIIITC
s69"
The balloons are made of neo-
phrene and carry approximate
ly 2y2 pounds of equipment
They are filled with 6000 grams
of helium which expands them
to 6 feet in diameter.
When the balloons are releas
ed they soar skyward expand
ing ultimately to 5 or 6 times
their original size. After they
reach 80000 feet they explode
because of the low atmospheric
pressure.
As they rise they are observ
ed visually and by instruments.
This then provides the data
needed.
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NEW G-3 OFFICER
Maj. Floyd C. Gober (Besse
mer Ala.) has become the new
executive officer of the 2nd Ar
mored (Hell On Wheels) Divi
sion's G-3 (operations) section.
Major Gober succeeded Maj. C.
B. Emery in that position.
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Armored Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, March 19, 1965, newspaper, March 19, 1965; Temple, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth254829/m1/3/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Casey Memorial Library.