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8/17/2019 The Pershing Cable (Spring 1986)
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PERSHING
CABLE
Vol. 23
No
. 2
Quick Reliable Accurate
SPRING 1986
56th Brigade gains
new na~e
status
Haddock commends command s progress
• .
rig. Gen. Raymond
E.
Haddock, commander of the 5eth Fie
ld Anlllery
Command,
and
CSM Thaodont Jackson, eommancl Hrgeant major
of
the command, eeM the
brigade colors during the redealgnatlon ceremony on Herdt K ne.
Story and
photo
by Stephen
S e h r ~
The
S6th
Field Anilleey Brigade
was
rede
signated the S6th Field Artillery Command
and it's firing battalions were inaccivated and
re-activated as
uniu
of the 9th Field Anil
lery R,gimcnt during
.a
ceremony
at th•
Hudt
Kaseme Gymn nium, in SchwiibiJch
Gmiind, Friday January 17, 1986.
According
to
the Command Resource
Manag,mcnt Office th•
d«ign
ation of bri
gade did not completely describe the unit's
funciions, mponsibilines and capabilities.
Rcdc
s
ignation
as a command occured speci
fic.J ly
to
implement new doctrine, remedy
prior organ1utional dcficicnci« and en
hance survivability and combat effectiveness.
With the implementation of the Regimen
tal Synem
came new
names for
th
e firing
battalions. The 1st Battalion, 81st Field
Ar
tillery,
louted
in Neu Ulm,
is
now the 1st
Batulion,
9d,
Field Anillery Regiment the
1st Ban.Jion, 41st Field Artillery, in Schwa
bisch Gmiind has become the 2nd Ban,lion,
9th Field Artillery Regiment and the )rd
Banal.ion,
84th Field Artillery, stationed
in
Hcilbronn, was red«ignucd the 4th Batta·
lion, 9th Field Anillery Regiment, The 4th
Infantry Regiment was also activated. It
consisu of only one bar ulion, the 2nd Bat·
talion, 4th Infantry Regiment, whose head
quarters uc in Neu-Ulm.
ln addition, the )8th Signal Battalion was
welcomed into ,he command when it
was
activated
as
the newest a
nd
one of the largest
signal battalions in the U .S.
Army
Also,
Echo Company, SSth Maintencnce
Ban.Jion, ...bicb recently moved
10
Goppin·
gen, is now the 193rd Aviation
Co
mpanr a
sepcratt unit directly under the contro o
the Command.
The event ..,as reviewed by Lt. Grn. Tho
mas 0 . Ayers, deputy commander in chief,
U.S. Army, Europe and Seventh Army and
Brig. Gen. R.aymond E. Haddock, comman
der, S6th Field Anillory Command.
The uremo ny, which was executed in
tn ·
ditional military style, begin with a presen
tation
of
honors and colors and proceeded
with the 84th United States Army Band
per·
forming the national
An
thems
of
he Fcdtral
Republic of Germany and the United Satu
of America.
Following the introduction, the colors of
the Command
1
J uniu were cased and new
ones symbolii.ing their activation
or
redes
ignation were unfurled,
The last event on the agenda was the re
d«ignation of the Brigade. With the casing
of
the old colon and the present.anon
of
the
new ones the unit stepp~d into the future a.s
the
S6ch Fie ld
Artillery Command.
Recently, Haddock discussed the well
being
of
the unit
in
his firn
Sme of
the
Command Address since the unit's rcdes·
ignation. The evrnc took pla
ce in
Rodman
Theater
on
Bismarck Kaseme,
"Just
as
corporations
get
together with
their stockholders 10 discuss the condition
of
their businesses, we need to talk about
the state
of
the command
,•
H~ddock told
the aud
ience of
senior
NCOs
and officers
from around the command. "We
as
seni
or
leaders need
to chc k
ourselves,• he contin
ued. ·The most important thing we can
leave bohind us
is
• trained capable leader,•
ho
sai
d,
Haddock then spoke on issues that cover
ed the several key areas
of
combat readiness
- training, maintaining, practicing discipline
and having fun.
Haddock cited facto and figum in his
speech
that reflected the quality
of
Pershing
soldiers. Some
of th
ose
faru '•re
:
- six out
of
every 10 soldim earned awards
in
1
98S.
- the
S6rh
F.A. Command had
die
best re
enlistment program in Europe for
I
985.
- the 193rd Aviation Company hu the best
a
vi
ation safety record
in
Europe.
- the percentage of soldiers who had posi
tive
urinalym
was
far below the Unittd
Stat« Arrny Europe's average of S per
cent.
Haddock also nid that support of
ch
e
fa
mily was extremely imponan1. •
It's our
community, and can only
be as
good
as
we
malt, it. We need
to
make sure that our sol
diers
get
rime off (
to
,hue with their funi
lies).•
·our com bat
readiness
is
moving in the
right direction.
I commend you,• Haddock
told his audience,
in
the conclu,ion of his
addreu. "We have leaders who
a.re
1 .
ing
weU and we have the best soldiers I've ever
stcn ..
New battalion s signal growing stronger
Story
by William Coffey,
Jr.
Since it's inception, )8th Signal Batulion
ha, grown from , handful of personnel co a
force of over nine hundred. During that
time, it
has
been able
10
organize from the
ground up and uilor itself to
fit
the combat
missjon .
The lnittal
ion was
re
activa1ed
for
lhe fi
rst
t
im<
since
19~S
on January 17. It
is
the
newest Bmalion
.,.ith1n
the S6th F
ield
Anil
lery Command and one
of
the largest signal
b, n
alions
in
the Unittd Sutes Army.
The Smalion's 900-plus soldiers have the
mi
ssion o providing comm,nd control
communications for the S6th Command
Headquarters, SSth Support Battalion Head•
quarters, 2nd Battalion, 4th Infantry Head
quarters, and forward communications sup
port to each
of
the Command's three firing
Battalions.
The formation
of
a signal ban.Jion within
this command brings a
new
focus on com
munications r~uircments for the Com·
m,nd. A consolidation of sign
al
personnel,
equipment and expenise will mean more ef
fectivo planning, training and maintenance
for this Command's communications
us
en .
When
as
k
ed
about training, Sgt. Kenneth
L.
Owens, section chief, D Company 38th
Sig
nal. stated, • Herc, we do a uaining sche .
dule, go by what we
y
,nd the rraining ac-
Nally gets done.• He continued, Now we
have
tlic peop
le
'up-c
op'
that can acNally
coordinate
our
signal assets and profile our
(signal) ,
hou
10 get communications.•
Quality personnel and teamwork
ue
a
must for combat re
ad inus.
According
10
Sp4
Dennis A. Havens,
Jr
., Radio Teletype
(RATI) operator, D Company )8th Signal,
"I know a lot
of
our Platoon Scrgcanu from
up
on
'the hill' (Ha.rdt Kaserne, 2/9 FA
Bn
);
they're cxcollent people. I think they picked
the right people 10 get che battalion mned.
They're qualuy people leading the troops.•
For others like PFC Tracie S. Tnub, m
tclitc communications operator, 0 Com-
pany )8th Signal, "everyone working
1oge1
-
her• is what she ~kc, best about the batta
lion's ptrsonnel.
She sees
the future
of
her
unit as being able
to munuin
combat readi
ntss,
beausc
· evcryone
1
s determined
to
make it ,he best.•
T
o be s
ur
e that the 56th Field Anillery
Command geu the right data and input
needed 10 accomplish iu mission if that ume
ever comes," is ,he
way
Owens defines the
38th
1
primary mission.
Bue
it was best sum•
maritcd by
Pfc.
Tr
oy
Shore
s,
Alpha Com
pany, )8th, when
he
stated that tho
miu
ion
of the 38th Signal batulion
is
simply 10
be
S
ignal Ready.·
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Tests help
clean
up our act
Early detec·tion the first step for correction
Story by John D'
Amato
With recent revelations
of
wide-spread
drug abuse in sport$
and Olher
sectors, many
people: are looking
at
the Armed Services
and their handling
of
alcohol and dru~-rela
tcd problems.
The
services arc now being re
ferred
to
as
pioneers
in
innovative programs
which c:ombine
earl
y screening, identifica·
tion and rehabilitation.
lnnov.ations, such a.s the Portable
Urinalysis Kit introduced
in
1982, caused a
substantial drop
in
drug
ust with.in tht Unia
tcd
Smcs
Army, according
to
Sgt. Larry
Reed,
NCO C of
the 2nd Battalion, 9th
Field Artillery's Drug and Alcohol Program.
The kit's frequent use coupled with tough
enforcablc guidelines for commanders, and a
workable rehabilitation program showed
soldiers that the Army was concerned with
the hea
lth of its
soldiers and serious about
eradicating drug and alcohol abuse.
If
penalties for drug and alcohol abuse
'9.'Crc
c
onsidered
tough
in
the
past, Reed
claims ,hat they are
even
stricter now • As
many as 40 to
45
%
of
those soldiers who
come up positive on the urinalysis test
arc
being chaptered
out of
the Army, Reed
said. In addition to the administmive dis
ch2rgcs that the ehap«ring• procedures
utilize, soldiers can a.lso face punishment un-
der
the Uniformed Code
of
Military Junice.
•When a soldier messes around with any
kind
of substance, li
ke
marijuana
or
coc,aine,
tha
t soldier is
a '•are that
the penalties
are re
-
all
y hard,• Recd said.
"first
offenders con
g
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