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Show ARMY SERVICE FORCES I'Jinety four per cent of reported report-ed military personnel in the Ninth Service Command are now covered by National Service and United States Government Life insurance it was announced this week by Major General David McCoach, Jr., Commanding General, at Fort Douglas, Utah, headquarters. "blockbuster" bomb weighs 4,000 pounds and costs $778, it was learned at headquarters of the Ninth Service Command More than 4,000,000 items of clothing are handled monthly by fixed and mobile laundries oper-ater oper-ater by the Army Quartermaster Corps and service scattered in the South Pacific in an ocean area twice the size of the United States, Stat-es, the Headquarters Quartermaster Quarter-master Corps of the Ninth Ser-Jvice Ser-Jvice Command, Fqrt Douglas, Utah, announced this week. Reports received at the Fort Douglas, headquarters of the ninth Service Command from var ious overseas theaters of operations opera-tions have exploded the myth that only weaklings develope paychiatric disturbances. Stress of situation rather than a weakness of personality is the basis, announced the Army Medical Med-ical Corps. Three hundred American women wom-en residing in England heve enlisted en-listed in the Women s Army Corps and are now receiving basic training prior to duty assignment in the European Theatre of operations, oper-ations, the director of the Ninth Service Command WAC Brancn announced this week. i Retention of pay by (soldiers for local expenditures range from a 15 per cent low in Italy to a 25 per cent high in the United Kingdom, a War Department dis-iT-ch received at headquarters, iTinth Service Command Fort Douglas, was revealed this week. The equivalent of a division of soldiers, 15,000 men, daily visit Ninth Service Command libraries at Army military installations I located throughout the eight .Western states, it was announced at the Fort Douglas, headquarters of Majou General David McCoach Jr., Commanding General. Books on the shelves of Army libraries if laid end to end would 'extend approximately 100 miles. Overseas troops are 'now being issued a new improved duffle bag, designed to eliminate the carrying of two barracks bags formerly I issued to military personnel, the ! headquarters. Ninth Service Com- Quarter Corps was informed this week. Golden colored bars, representing represent-ing each six months of overseas duty, will be presented soldiers of World War II, it was learned this week at Fort Douglas. Fatalities to Army personnel since December 7, 1941, and through April 30, 1944, aggregate 63,000 a War Department announcement an-nouncement recived at headquarters, headquar-ters, Fort Douglas declared. Troops in areas without Army post exchange facilities will - receive re-ceive free issues of approximately 16,000,000 pounds of candy this year, the War Department inform ed the Ninth Service Command Quartermaster Corps at Fort Douglas, Utah. The candy is composed entirely entire-ly of the hard varieties of peppermint, pepper-mint, cherry, orange, clove, lemon lem-on and lime flavor. Fire Chiefs at military installations instal-lations under the jurisdiction of the Ninth Service Command receive re-ceive annual salaries ranging from $2600 to $3200, depending upon pieces of equipment under their command, it was announced at Fort Douglas this week. |