| Show 1 life begins at array reception post I place where Army I begins is the Reception Station I at Fort j The purpose and mission of i the Reception Station is to orient and process enlistees and reservists into the Active This is accomplished in a stay here where the new soldier is whisked through a of activities before being shipped to a basic training unit at Fort j Arriving at the Reception I the recruit receives his a haircut and his initial clothing He spends the rest of his first day in the Army keeping the station area neat and Later in the day he receives an influenza hears a company orientation and sees a movie on the form of Military The first day of processing on the second day when recruit takes n day-long battery of classification tests and later receives in partial pay to help defray expenses incurred during the first few weeks of basic The second day the recruit receives his full complement of clothing and finds out the results of his classification tests in a personal interview with a classification and assignment During this interview the recruit outlines his background and receives some insight on what his army job might The final day of processing Is taken up with getting tho first in the of having name tags in drawing field equipment and getting a dental At the end of the final the recruit is shipped to his basic training along with other During the processing the biggest accomplishment Is initiation of the serviceman's personal This file contains all Information pertinent to recruit's military The station processes more than recruits a year for assignment to training units at Ord and other army training The center processes as many as men a a per daily roster In addition to processing re- the Station handles re- assignments and returning per- i who are going or 1 returning from overseas With Army draft calls skyrocketing in the immediate the Reception Station at Fort Ord is prepared to handle the influx without breaking CHOOSING LOO Because they believed that the Christ Child had been washed and dressed at Bethlehem beside an ash wood early English people always had I Yule logs of ash The log kept burning during the 12 days of I Oak olive were log sources In other European I In the choice was |
