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Show WESTERN AMERICANA ; .s' J. : t t f ! ft 7 i it Iii , !H! V Two Dugway Lieutenant Colonels, each with 23 years active duty, retired March 30 in ceremonies in the proving grounds Post Lt.Col. Harold Bradley Hodge Jr., deputy director of Test Operations Directorate, and Lt.Col. Robert Janies Wheeler, chief of the Security Office were presented retirement certificates by Dugway ProvingCroundCoininand-e- r Col. Arthur J. Kingdom. Hodge Lt.Col. Harold B. Ilodge receives his Certificate of Retirement and a Certificate of Appreciation upon leaving active duty from Dugway Proving Ground Commander Colonel Arthur J. Kingdom. t LTCOL Ilodge and his wife Kwang have lieen at the Deseret Test Center since Septemlier 1969, and Lt.Col. Wheeler and his wife Caro-lyn- e have resided on post since April 1972. Lt.Col. Hodge holds the degree from Nor- pre-medic- al LtCols. Hodge, Wheeler retire Vt. and has completed the Armys Armor School, the CBR course, the Chemical Corps School and the Command and General Staff Class. He has also completed work in liacteriology at the University of Connecticut! and in geology at Brigwich University, the Intelligence School, ham Young University. Lt.Col. Wheeler holds the liachelor's degree in economic geography from the University of Illinois, and has attended the Armys Armor School and Advanced Course, tiie Defense Language Institute in German. LT COL Hodge has served at Ft. Rilev, Ft. Devens. Ft. McClellan and Ft. Jav, NY. He has served in the Armys Biolabs at Ft. Detrick, and with the 69th Armor in Kurope. He has also completed tours of duty in Jajwii and Korea. Lt. Col. Wheeler has served at Ft. Knox, Ft. Carson, Ft. Hood, Ft. Holabird and in Japau, Korea, Germany, Okinawa and Vietnam. Whiie in Vietnam, he was the Commanding Officer of the 25th Military Intelligence Detachment. and while in Germany, he was the Commanding Officer of the 766th Military Intelligence Detachment at Breinerhaven Station. Lt.Col. Hodge holds the Korean Service Medal, the United Nations Service Medal, the Army Commendation Medal with 1st Oak Leaf Cluster, and the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal. the ln)cctDr General Course and LT COL Wheeler holds the Meritorious Service Medal and the United Nations Servie Medal. Wheeler The Hodges have four children: Kim, Young, Harold Lt.Col. Robert J. Wheeler was awarded the Meritoriand Vanessa. The Wheelers ous Service Medal (1st Oak Leaf Ouster) on the ochave one son, Mark. casion of his retirement from active duty. Colonel Arthur J. Kingdom, Dugway Proving Cround commander, biade the presentation. ta) Published in the interest of the personnel of the Deseret Test Center i Published by the Transcript-Bulleti- n Publishing Company, Tooele, Utah, a private firm, in no way connected with the Department of the Army. Opinions expressed by publisher and writers herein are their own and are not to be considered an official expression by the Department of the Army. Hie appearance of advertisements in this publication does not constitute an endorsement by the Department of the Army of the products or services advertised. Ft. Douglas, Utah 84113 Vol. 4 No. 24 Bus service Considerations of practicality and economics overcame those of convenience and popularity when a decision was made by the Deseret Test Center Commander not to of commuter bus request establishment communities and Dugway Proving service between Ground. The decision resulted from the findings of a staff study and survey that were prompted by a proposal last January from Colonel Robert A. Shade, DTC Commander, for a possible commuter bus service. At that time, preliminary indications suggested that the bus service, which has since become a popular idea among DTC employees, would be a desirable and practical facet of the relocation of DTC Headquarters from Fort Douglas to Dugway Proving Ground. HOWEVER THE SURVEY and staff study indicated that the bus service would not lie practical or economically feasible. Most significant of all the considerations addressed by the study was the cost of the proposed commuter service and its impact on the Deseret Test Center. Conservative estimates placed the cost of the proposed service between thousand and and twenty thousand dollars annually. The study further revealed that any revenue collected from potential commuters would lie fiinneled back to the United States Treasury and would not serve to reimburse DTC funds. IN LIGHT OF the Center's present financial situation, the cost and lack of reimbursement were considered cost figures equated particularly forbidding. The on the DTC payroll to the elimination of roughly eight more jolw, or the deferrment of essential maintenance withmillion dollars. in the command, now in excess of one-ha- lf Also related to the prohibitive cost figures were the results of the survey. Only 190 people, or less than half of potential DTC commuters, expressed an interest in the commuter bus proposal. Out of this total, 122 employees are communities. already commuting to Dugway from off-poMany who responded to the survey are in existing car pools. In effect, there were only 68 of those who responded who would lie new commuters interested in the 1ms service. , WHEN WEIGHED against the annual cost figures for running the commuter bus service, the expense of transporting each individual employee liecame extremely, high. In terms of justifying a Inis service request to higher headratio presented a formidable quarters, the liecame more comdwtacle. The issue of plex when the expense of transporting commuters to and from a wide variety of relatively isolated areas was considered. Added to the factors of high cost and the relatively small numlicr of new commuters interested in the bus proposal, was the insurmountable olistacle of justifying the request to higher headquarters. which governs requests for Army Regulation 58-Army- - sponsored Inis service, provides that a request for such service must offer justification in the form of certifying that facilities for public and private transportation do not exist. PRIVATE TRANSPORTATION, including car pools, oliviously are in existence. The fact that people have been commuting to Dugway for 20 years negates the certification necessary for approval of the bus service request. Hie study also reveals that there is no record of any DTC employees rejecting assignment to Dugway Proving of bus service. Ground liased oil the As it stands now, the possilrility of securing government- sponsored bus service appears to lie less than optimistic. DTC staff members are, however, exploring two other alternatives. TIIE TRANSPORTAHON Division of the Utah Public Service Commission has lieen contacted, and private carriers are lieing queried in reference to establishing Inis communities and Dugway Provservice lietwccn Soldier of Month titles given to Trujillo, West Two HHC the honors as Center soldiers for January and soldiers share Deseret Test of the month February. Sp4 Jesus Robe. to Trujillo and Sp4 Garland West Jr., were honored m txfeuionifcs in Dugway Proving Cround Post Headquarters for their selections by DPG Commander Col. Arthur J. Kingdom. RECOGNITION for the pair was delayed by problems in the reception of $25 Savings Bonds for the pair. They also receive a three-da- y pass each, a desk set from HHC, and exemption from company work DTC-sponsor- ed off-po- st formations for a period of four weeks. one-hundr- one-hundr- six-di- st The Soldier of the Month is selected from representatives from IIHC, the 65th NIP Platoon, the ASL Met Team and the U.S. Army Hosboard expital. A three-ma- n amines candidates for outstanding performance of duty, soldierly appearance and knowledge of military and current events. Sp4 Trujillo is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Trujillo of Florence, Colo. A graduate of Florence ' High School and Western State College, old personnel spethe cialist holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in education. HE IS A member of 26-ye- ar Ki-wa- International and the National Education Association. He plans to return to elementary teaching upon completion of his Army tour of duty. ing Ground. The second alternative is the establishment of an employee corporation to run its own commuter service. This method is currently in use at another U.S. Army installation, Fort Huachiiea, Arizona. Trujillo took and advanced individual training at Ft. Leonard-woo- Dugway is without the services of a telephone switchboard operator, after duty hours, on holidays and during weekends as of April 1st. Budget restraints due to the Deseret Test Center collocation and its resultant RIF, have made it necessary to reduce operator assistance to the hours of 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. HIE STAFF DUTY OfficerNCO will provide the only directory information assistance after operational hours if die desired phone number is not known. Incoming long distance commercial callers will incur a toll cost when connected to the Staff Duty OfficerNCO. The staff duty personnel will not he able to transfer any on-po- st basic-trainin- Sp4 d, Mo. Sp4 West is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Garland West, Sr. The 22-ye- ai old Winston-Sa- - lem, N.C. native is a graduate of Wake Forest University, holding a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and jour- nalism. HE PLANS to return to graduate school in journalism upon release from die Army. Sp4 West took basic training at Ft. Jackson, S.C. and advanced individual training at the Defense Information School at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, Ind. Both soldiers are now eligible for Soldier of the Quarter competition. DPG switchboard hours reduced West On the inside incoming commercial calls. Incoming calls from Tooele after operational hours must he placed through Salt Lake City using prefix 522 plus the extension desired. These calls will incur a toll fee. TIME OF DAY service may lie obtained by calling Information calls, trouble reports and operator calls will lie handled by staff duty personnel afassistance ter duty hours by calling extension 3545. Western Union service can be obtained after 4:30 which is a toll free call by p.m. by calling subscribers with the request that the telegram be hilled to a Class B telephone number. Incoming telegrams will he telephoned directly to the individual from Salt Lake City Western Union personnel. YAC basketball April climatology EEO statements Safety zone 359-912-2. Sgt. Major of Army Named by Gen. Abrams Capt. Reeder still awaited 1, off-po- st Friday, April 6, 1973 Dugway, Utah 84022 The return of former prisoner of war Captain William S. Reeder to Dugway Is indefinite at press time, but is expected to occur within the next week. Public observances of Captain Reeders return will be announced on Dial Dugway (ext. 2141) as they become known. Suggestion brings $635 award David D. Young, electronic technician in the Instrument Maintenance Branch, 'receives a suggestion award certificate from Deseret Test Center Commander Colonel Robert A. Shade. Mr. Young's suggestion of adding irig time code to microwave transmissions of contravcs tracking cameras resulted in the savings of approximately $9,609. For tiie adopted suggestion Young received a cadi award of $635, the largest suggestion award at DTC since 1969. WASHINGTON (ANF) Command Sgt. Maj. Leon L. Van Autreve has been named the new sergeant major of the Army. Army Chief of Staff General Creighton W. Abrams has announced the appointment which will become effective July 1, 1973, when Sergeant Major of the Army Silas L. Copeland retires. Sergeant Van Autreve, 53, has served in the Army for 29 years. He ia a native of Belgium and now lists his home of record as Delphos, Ohio. The Armys new enlisted man has served as command sergeant major for U.S. Army Alaska and for the 20th Engineer Brigade in the Republic of top-ranki- ng |