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Show 4 u?L Cf Published in the interest of the personnel of Dugway Proving Ground 99 Published by ' the Transcript-BulletiPublishing 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 lie considered an official expression by the Department of the Army. The appearance of advertisements in this publication does not constitute an endorsement by the Department of the Army of the products or services advertised. n Dugway Proving Ground Vol. 6 No. 23 Friday, May 3, 1974 The selling of Dugway Proving Ground Hospital Week May Dugway, Utah 84022 The American consumer has a new product on the Really, its an old product, one that has been around longer than the nation itself. But its pack aged in modem wrappings, and sold the modem way, with advertising campaigns, salesmen and even a public relations firm as advisors. And the public is buying. The product is the United States Army and its plan. And in Utah, that is Dugway Proving Ground. UNDER THE PROGRAM, an individual can en list and choose where he will be stationed, provided there exists an opening at that installation in die job the prospective enlistee wants. He is guaranteed at least 12 months at that installation, and as in Dugway s case, can sometimes remain even longer. Many people have found this an attractive package. Tom Rogers of the Training Input Branch in Washington, the office which monitors and functions as a control center for the. choice plans, calls the nationwide refantastic. and At Dugway, sponse overwhelming the situation is much the same. Personnel requirements at Dugway show at least a 30 increase over what we would expect going through conventional personnel to First channels, according Lieutenant Robert S. Perry, personnel officer for DPG officer. and THE PROGRAM gives a man some choice of he said. It gives going to some geographic location, him a chance at schooling, and to work in the MOS (military occupational specialty) of his choice. It gives him a handle on what he wants to do in a world where there arent too many handles left. Staff Sergeant Edward Feingold NCO for DPG, echoes Lt. Perrys enthusiasm. Since e Dec. 1, 1973, DPG has becoming a signed up 42 people under the program. 12-1- 8 shelf today. 'Get to know your hospital9 theme for national observance station-of-choi- Residents of Dugway will have an opportunity to become better informed about the services, activities and! future goals of the U.S. Army Hospital during National! 1974. Hospital Week, May 12-1THE U.S. ARMY Hospital is joining 7,000 hospi- Itals throughout the country in oltservation of the annual! event with the national slogan, Get to know us be fore you need us. On announcing U.S. Army Hospital National Ilos-- I Ipital Week activities. Colonel Sergio S. Danganan, com-- l Imander, said, In this era of vast social and economic! change, people are concerned about how hospitals are!" meeting growing health care needs, both inside and out side their walls. They have a rightful interest in howl effectively and efficiently hospitals are fulfilling theirl responsibilities, and about the rising costs of health caret services. The objectives of our National Hospital Week 19741 activities are to encourage the people of Dugway, as well I as those closely involved with die institution, to get I to know us. As they get to know us, we hope the pub-- 1 lie will then better understand that we need their in-- 1 volvement and support in order to meet our obligations to the community. said that during National! COL. DANGANAN I 8, ce station-of-choi- Dugway as station-of-choic- e ce station-of-choi- Private Patricia Ferris left her native New York for Dugway after talking to her recruiter. I heard about Dugway from a friend of a friend, she said, but when I got here, I really didn't know what to expect. My job is mostly what I expected. ASKED WHY SHE didnt choose an installation closer to home, she said I just wanted to get out. Her at the Recreation Center, Private Bruce Dalton, is a native Utahn. Here the proximity to home played an important role in die selection of DPG.' Id recommend the program to someone," - Pvt. Ferris said. DIVERSIFIED AS their backgrounds may be, the DPG soldiers who arrived here under the plan have one thing in common; his or her strong support of the program. Everyone interviewed said he or she would readily recommend it to friends. .To die contrary of forecasts that the end of the draft would bring only social misfits and rejects into the Army, the program is attracting qualified people. Both h school graduates are enlisthigh school and ing, Mr. Rogers noted, but the percentages of each are well within Department of the Army guidelines.DPG requires more technical personnel, but generally is doing quite well. OVERALL, WERE getting the people we need, Lt. Perry said. There are some MOSs where the civilian job market is good, but otherwise, were doing quite well. . er ce station-of-choic- station- -of-choice Hospital Week, the U.S. Army Hospital will conduct anl open house and guided tour of the hospital on Friday,! May 17 from 1 to 2 p.m. Refreshments will be served! at 2 p.m. A thampus orientation for active. duty, and re-- 1 tired military and their dependents will be held at 2:30l I P-National Hospital Week, sponsored by the American! Hospital Association, was begun in 1920 when leaders ini Idle health field established a National Hospital Day to I I mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Florence! Nightingale, the woman credited with establishing thel I modem profession of nursing. In 1953, National Hospi-- I Ital Day was extended to the week-lon- g event now ob-I served. THATS 42 PEOPLE we wouldnt have otherwise, SSG Feingold said. Not just 42 bodies, either, but 42 qualified and capable people. ! Hero-t- he value- of the- program - to - the Army-and, become apparent. DPG especially enlistees can be screened and The station-of-choievaluated beforehand, controlling the quality of men and women the Army will receive. IN THE PAST, weve often gotten people who hadnt worked in their primary MOS in years, and therefore, were less effective when placed in that PMOS, Lt. Perry noted. We can see if he (the enlistee) has been working in such an area, and if he knows his job. We can also monitor him in basic and AIT (advanced individual training) to see how hes performing. Under this program, the qualified enlistee is trained to and able in the needed MOS and arrives ready work productively for the Army and DPG. THE PLAN ALSO allows the installation to carry 120 per cent of its authorized strength. This insures that the normal rotation of personnel will not interrupt mission requirements. It helps buffer the shock 'of loss and gives sections SSG the manpower they need to perform normally, Feingold said. The smooth operation of mission requirements is especially important to DPG and other industrially funded activities that rely on work load to support themselves. Smooth operation insures continued accomplishment of the mission, and the installation stays financially -- - I non-hig- ce . I hard-to-fi- ll UNDER THE plan, people with certain job skills can enlist for rank and get competitive salaries with the Utah job market. As the Army moves into a peace-tim- e situation, you have to provide some benefits, especially to married men, almost as a necessity to get people to stay in, With a married man, the more Lt. Perry continued. control over his situation he has, the better he likes it. Soldiers who have come to Dugway Proving Ground under the program come from different parts of the country, hold different jobs, and have different reasons for coming to Dugway. JACK LA MAY of the Administrative Services Office chose Dugway because I wanted a post in the Southwest. I like the climate and the recreational stripes-for-skil- ls healthy. THIS FUNDING system also hurts the very recruiting effort it needs for survival. Larger posts and activities can afford to mount advertising campaigns, and can keep men in the area actively recruiting full time. Unlike large posts and organizations with extensive allocations for these recruiting efforts, the DPG effort relies on little money and a lot of hustle. BUT May 12 Mothers Day noted I I by Presidential proclamation IN ADDITIOF TO carrying out their family remov-- l sponsibilities, mothers are today, as never before, Barriers and skilled careers. jol ling into other highly against equal opportunity for women have been disapefpearing rapidly, but we must remain diligent in our fort to remove them. - I am particularly pleased that this year - we can celebrate Mothers Day in a world in which America is at peace, a world in which no American mother need fear land. of a huslwmd or son in a far-og for the of The Congress, by a joint resolution May 8, 1914, designated the second Sunday of May each year as the I countless day on which we honor all mothers for their contributions to their families, to their communities and to their Fation. NOW, THEREFORE, I, Richard Nixon, President of the United States of America, do hereby request that! 1 Sunday, May 12, 1974, lie oliseived as Mother's Day. direct government officials to display the flag of the! United States on all government lmildings, and 1 urge! all citizens to display the flag at their homes and other! I suitable places on that day. hand set hereunto I have In witness whereof, my this sixteenth clay of April, in the year of our Lord nine-- I and of the independence of I teen hundred seventy-fouthe United States of America the one hundred ninety- I I ff I 1 eight. We are in competition with all other activities, Lt. Perry said. We ate at a big disadvantage presently, since most of these receive large amounts of direct funding for advertising and canvassers in the field. DPG has an extremely limited fiscal capability in this direction. Lt. Perry and SSG Feingold have traveled to high schools in Ogden, Logan and Salt Lake City to speak to students on the program. A helicopter display is scheduled for May 18 at Salt Lake Citys. Cottonwood Mall, and a special booklet on Dugway as a is being printed now. They have also mailed information on DPG to about 100 recruiters, and our MOS want list to about 1,000. PERHAPS THE chief beneficiary of the whole program is the individual concerned. I think the program Is very good in that people who work on this will be living with the people when they get here, Lt. Perry said. We wont be feeding them a lot of bull. Lt. Perry and Mr. Rogers agree that the the plan is geared for the junior enlisted man man looking for a career. It allows him to choose his job, and if he likes, stay close to home, which is a big enticement to many prospective enlistees. A PERSON WILL feel more satisfied, Lt. Perry said, and he will lie more productive. Dugway can give the enlistee more than just peace of mind. He can obtain valuable training, working in many basis with highly qualified instances on a professional people. People can leave here with a good skill and with good training for a job, Lt. Perry noted. "And they can station-of-choi- bilit'y more awesome. r, ce e. Over three million childreri were bom in the Unit-- 1 ed States last year, and the job of guiding them to mamothers. turity will be carried out primarily by their 1 no more responsi-There is. no undertaking challenging, well-bein- SSG Feingold notes that the program is getting good personnel, as response from women and prior-servidoes Mr. Rogers. We have seven WACs signed up so far, SSG FeinThese guys can step gold said, and 'several prior-servicimmediately into a job situation, without too much adjustment to Army life, and do a good job. THE WAC response has been great, Mr. Rogers said. Were putting them in many highly skilled jobs. Another benefit of the plan is the cooperative effort created among recruiters, SSG Feingold pointed out. We send our MOS want lists to all recruiters, he said. If an applicant shows up wanting a job not available at that particular installation, maybe it will be bn our list. If not ours, maybe someone elses. Where that guy would have been turned away in the past by some recruiters, now he finds a slot, and the Army benefits. DUGWAYS ISOLATION has proved to be the biggest problem in the program. We have to let recruiters in the field know Dugway SSG Feingold said exists, and that we need people, If the recruiter doesn't know about us, they cant sell Dugway. If he does, he helps both of us as well as the Army as a whole. and to a large extent The future of the program lies in the ability of the recruiters of Dugway itself and representatives to sell the product. THE PROGRAM HAS been successful in the initial stages, Lt. Perry said However, its total success will very much be determined in how successful the officer and NCO are in getting out and selling Dugway. My personal opinion is that the station-of-choiprogram will become an inherent part of the Army re- ce station-of-choi- station-of-choi- . one-to-o- make a good salary. of Minnesota, his recruiter told him, of the plan, and he liked what he heard. He also likes the way things turned out, and having been in the Army liefore, hes had no trouble adapting once again to the Army routine. When asked if he would recommend the program to a friend considering the Army, he said definitely. ANOTHER MINNESOTAN, Sp4 Gary Jones of the Motor Pool also found out about station-of-choic- e from his recruiter. He wanted a small post with a warm climate, and though undecided alxmt his job as a career, likes Dugway. Is a good program," he Yes, it (station-of-choicsaid. Im satisfied with it. Id recommend it to a friend. A native station-of-choi- . e) cruiting effort. Our goal of-choice, is to fill all SSG Feingold DPG requirements by said Anything icing on the cake. 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