The Fort Hood Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 1, 1982 Page: 8 of 32
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By ROSA ROSENBERG
THE FT. HOOD SENTINEL hu rsd ay April 1 1 9 8 2
The 528th Trans. Co. 169th Maint.
Bn.. 13th SUPCOM performs the
highest level of aircraft maintenance
on post normally working in airfield
hangars large enough to place four
football fields.
It isn't always easy to find a time
and place for the company’s 245 per-
sonnel to get together to “soldier.”
With the a ’s A E
By ROSA ROSENBERG
A popular marching “jody” says
“the Army took away my old blue
an I ‘m a in A
greens.”
March 21. more than 60 soldiers of
1st Personnel and A dm inistration
Bn.. 13th SUPCOM traded their
jeans and greens for 13th SUPCOM
Gym’s blue and white shorts socks
and T-shirts and boarded buses to
Austin where it seemed everyone
else was wearing green the color of
this year’s Capitol 10 kilometer run’s
T-shirts.
It was the second consecutive year
that 1st P&A entered the Capitol run.
Lt. Col. John Lundberg’s reasons for
having his battaltion enter in run-
ning formation included: it’s a good
way of having fun it contributes to
the battalion's esprit de corps and it
shows the civilian community that
today’s Army is in good physical con-
dition and enhances the military’s
image.
Many soldiers who ran last year re-
em bered the outstanding recep-
tion they received in Austin and en-
couraged others to experience it.
The applause from the thousands
of civilians along the route wras con
IlilllO O FM 440 SOUTH.
FTX helps SUPCOM unit
approaching in May the 528th re-
cently resolved its dilemma by mov-
ing its soldiers out of hangars and
into tents during a four-day field
training exercise. The soldiers re-
moved from their daily time press-
ures and obligations concentrated
on hands-on training in basic soldier-
ing and survival tactics according to
Maj. David M. Capouya company
commander.
The unit marched five miles from
Unit’s running formation
cheered at Capitol 10 run
STORE
tinuous and contagious. They yelled lion and the jody calls inspired each
“Go Army!” Cameras clicked. runner to “hang in there” until the
Enthusiasm built on enthusiasm finish.
The spectators’ cheers the civilians
who chose to run close to the batta- No one dropped out.
IN THE RUN During the Capitol 10 kilometer run in Au-
stin the 1st P&A Bn. 13th SUPCOM running in formation
caught the attention of thousands of spectators and were
joined by several running civilians.
(Photo by Carol Stephens)
THE LARGEST FURNITURE STORE IN KILLEEN
(R-Mart shopping center) 10-8 10-6
their hangars to the FTX site off East
Range Road near Engineer Lake. An
avionics platoon had arrived in adv-
ance to set up the communication
networks for the unit. The soldiers
established the field site and peri-
meter positions and began classes in
NBC and map reading.
Platoons were divided into five
groups with each group attending
different classes. No soldiers were
exempt from the training.
SUPCOM NEWS
having \0 FOOLING SALE
Thnrs. APRIL 1st THRU Sat. APRIL 3rd
SUPER VALVES
Throughout
$ :■THE ENTIRE
Mon.-Fri. Sat.
The unit’s field dining tent served
hot breakfast and evening meals
while C-rations were distributed for
lunch. This enabled the food service
personnel to train with the rest of the
company during the daylight hours
according to 1st Sgt. Hayden Gibson
Jr.
The culmination of the training
was a tw o-m ile compass course
which was designed to build the sol-
diers’ confidence in their knowledge
of land navigation map reading
NBC training and the use of the len-
satic compass. Small groups of sol-
diers were directed from one stake to
another by sets of coordinates. Each
of the 10 stakes was tagged with a
different set of coordinates.
At one point the compass course
led the soldiers to Engineer Lake
where the soldiers were required to
track a line across the lake.
At the 10 points along the course
the soldiers were given instruction
on a variety of subjects such as first-
aid disassembling the gas mask and
changing its filters light anti-tank
weapons and cardiopulm onary re-
suscitation.
The course also included a con-
tam inated area with NBC stations
where soldiers were required to per-
form different tasks. The NBC signs
included those used by NATO and
Soviet forces. The leader of each
group submitted a special NBC re-
port.
Many soldiers were able to relate
the training to their jobs in aircraft
maintenance. Sgt. Gary W. Langstaff
a helicopter repairman said the land
navigation skills taught were closely
related to the 528th’s mission of re-
covering downed aircraft. “It’s also
an excellent chance to give the youn-
ger troops the experience in map
reading they need” Langstaff said.
“This map reading and land navi-
gation training is more extensive
than what soldiers receive in basic
training” said Sgt. Edward D. Trapp
an aircraft arm am ent repairm an.
“The soldiers straight out of basic
picked up where they left off.
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THAT AWAY Sp5 Grant Brewer (standing) an aircraft
navigation repairman points toward a coordinate destina-
tion while Sp5 Rodolfo Marquez Jr. an aerial surveillance
sensor repairman kneels at the stake to shoot an azimuth on
his compass. The soldiers both of the 528th Trans. Co. 169th:
Maint. Bn. 13th SUPCOM were participating in a two-mile
compass course during their company’s recent field training
exercise. (Photo by Rosa Rosenberg)
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The Fort Hood Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 1, 1982, newspaper, April 1, 1982; Temple, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth309546/m1/8/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Casey Memorial Library.