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Against some of these criticisms West Pointer Gregory had a fair defense if he had been free to talk. Camp sites are not picked by the Corps itself but by Corps Area boards which have only one Quartermaster Corps member. Picking is almost invariably complicated by pork-barrel politics. Moreover, Congressional dawdling with emergency measures forced the Corps to start its big program much too late, made it take heroic measures for speed. So costs were skyrocketed by high wages, strikes, tremendous bills for overtime...
...same week that he made a civilian a brigadier general, the President broke a prized tradition of the Army-that the crack Corps of Engineers shall be headed by a West Pointer. (West Point was founded in 1802 as a school for engineers exclusively.) Franklin Roosevelt gave the job, vacated by able but aging Major General Julian Schley, to a civil engineering alumnus of peaceful University of Delaware...
...appointment, which most Army men had marked out for Wage & Hour Administrator (and West Pointer) Phil Fleming, engineer soldiers flicked no eyebrows. For General Reybold, even if not a West Pointer, rates high with his fellow officers, and at least his son, Captain Franklin B. Reybold of the Coast Artillery, is a graduate of West Point...
...Slated to be the new G4: Engineer Colonel (and West Pointer) Raymond A. Wheeler...
Boss of Army tank design and procurement is big, blue-eyed Lieut. Colonel John Kay ("Jack") Christmas, whom Army Ordnance rates tops among U.S. tank experts. No West Pointer, Jack Christmas is a mechanical engineer (Lafayette College) who got interested in tanks while he was an artilleryman in France during World War I. From tank testing at the Army's Aberdeen (Md.) Proving Ground, last week he was shifted to Washington, given charge of a new Ordnance section. The new section's province: tanks, other armored vehicles, and the all-important development of self-propelled "tank chasers" (mobile...