The Rotator [Greensboro, N.C.: September 28, 1945]

              AAF OVERSEAS
REPLACEMENT DEPOT
AAF REDISTRIBUTION
STATION NO. 5
VOL. 5, NO. 7. 1060th AAF BU, Greensboro, N. C, Friday, September 28,1945. FREE DISTRIBUTION
Post Takes Over Army Base At Airport
Reduce Discharge Score
To 70 Point Level Oct. 1
Announce Further Cut In November;
Post Speeds Up Local Separations
As this post moved into its second week of active
operation as a temporary AAF separation base, with a
substantial speed-up in the pace of separations here, of­ficial
instructions were received from PDC headquarters
confirming substantial reductions in ASR scores^jiecessary
for discharge after October 1 and November 1.
Under the new rreegguullaattiioonnss all"
personnel with ASR scores equal
to or above the new critical scores
announced this week will become
"automatically nonessential and
eligible for release," providing
they have not indicated by state­ment
their desire to remain in serv­ice.
Scores as of September 2 recom-putations,
which will be required
of the respective groups to be
eligible for discharge after Octo­ber
1, follow:
Male officers, except Medical
Department officers, of all grades
including .Warrant Officers and
Flight Officers, 75 points.
Wac Officers, 39 points.
Male enlisted personnel, 70
points.
Wac enlisted personnel, 36
points.
Lower in November
Effective. November 1, the same
instructions provide for a further
lowering of the critical ASR scores
necessary for separation.
Upon that date scores required of
enlisted men will be reduced to
60 points, and for enlisted Wacs
to 34 points. No provision was made
for a further reduction November
1 in scores required for officer se­parations.
Meanwhile, the post's compara­tively
new separation processing
line continued to turn out _ dis­charges
for men eligible on either
point or age basis, under exist­ing
provisions.
One week ago today, a total of
459 officers and enlisted men had
received honorable discharges here,
in the first week of operation as
a separation base.
Today a total of 1,544 officers and
men had been separated here since
the first separation ceremony was
held September 17. That figure in­cludes
those who received honor­able
discharge papers or relief from
active duty yesterday afternoon,
and includes a total of 1,148 enlisted
men and 396 officers.
During the past full week, there­fore,
a total of 1,085 men have been
separated here.
City headers
Help CO Start
Second Year
Col. Paul R. Younts, post conv
mander, observed an anniversary
yesterday, when a group of city
leaders of the Greensboro com­munity
were guests at an informal
luncheon party marking the end
of Col. Younts' first year as CO
of this post.
Among those who helped the CO
mark his "first anniversary" were
Mayor C. M. Vanstory, Jr.; Henry
A. Yancey, City Manager; W. H.
Sullivan, former mayor of Greens­boro,
and Joseph Martin, chairman
of the Community Planning Coun­cil.
Col. Younts arrived here on Sep­tember
27, 1944, just one year ago
yesterday.
The CO had at that time only
recently returned from the South­west
Pacific, where he served as
deputy chief of staff of the Thir­teenth
Air Force under Maj. Gen.
Hubert R. Harmon, now once again
CG of the Personnel Distribution
Command. Previously he had been
A-l for U. S. Armed Forces in the
South Pacific area.
At the time Col. Younts assumed
command this post was serving ex­clusively
as an AAF Overseas Re­placement
Depot, and a busy one.
Since that time, however, he has
directed the assumption of two
added missions here.
Last May the post became a re­distribution
station, on a tempor­ary
basis, and began processing re­turning
veterans, chiefly from the
ETO, for reassignment. Early in
August the redistribution func­tion
was made a permanent part
of the posfs operation, and it as­sumed
the official title of AAF Re­distribution
Station No. 5.
More recently a third important
job was assumed here,
First Recruit Signs Up
FIRST EM at this post to re-enlist in the Army after receiving:
his honorable discharge, with 127 points, was M/Sgt. Donald LaForge,
shown here taking the oath as administered by Maj. A. M. Skibbie,
O—-C of the recruiting drive. A resident of Wcllsville," N. Y., and
a vet of the Ninth Air Force, Sgt. LaForge has eight years of serv­ice
to his credit and holds a permanent staff sergeancy. Hell report
back here about Christmas time after enjoying a 90-day furlough.
He's Everywhere
Kilroy Has Been Here,
Is Stationed Here Now
Kilroy, Kilroy, Kilroy!
So much has been written of late—in Army news­papers,
on barracks bunks, and on washroom walls-*fight
here at Greensboro—about this legendary "Elmer" of
World War II, that the Rotator decided this week to do a
little journalistic research on its own.
As a starter, a telephone call was
Capt. W. F. Shaf er
New Post Adjutant
to its other functions—that
temporary AAF separation
Capt. William F. Shafer assumed
the duties of post adjutant this
week, succeeding Maj. T. W. Kirby,
who received his release from ac-in
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base, as assistant to Maj. Kirby.
Nothing Lonely About This Saturday Night Crowd
THEY MAY BE the "loneliest nights" In normal
weeks, bat file overflow crowd attending the NCO
Club's open-air party last Saturday at the post Big
Top enjoyed one of the best evenings in a long,
long while. Fried chicken and other refreshments
more than satisfied the inner GI—and dancing to
the music of one of the post's best orchestra units
completed the party under file open skies. Even
the youngster, right foreground, couldn't keep her
tootsies quiet when the band gave out with jive.
put through to Post Locator, to find
out if Kilroy—any Kilroy — had
ever actually trained here, eaten
here, slept here, or done any of
the multifarious things people say
he did here.
So legendary has the name of
Kilroy become, however, that the
young lady at the post locator of­fice
hung up the receiver when
she was asked politely whether or
not Kilroy was on file there.
Persistence triumphed, however,
and locator files, when eventual­ly
searched, disclosed the fact that
at least two Kilroys have been
stationed here.
'Kilroy' Here Now!
One, Cpl. Edmund W. Kilroy, left
this station October 9, 1944, for
an overseas assignment.
Another Kilroy, Arthur W.,
colored, is here now, with Squad­ron
F, and he's been stationed here
since May, 1944.
How many other Kilroys are
flitting about this man's army, pen­cil
in hand, it would be difficult
to determine, but Kilroyisms are so
general, from Kamchatka to Kara­chi,
that there must be dozens of
Kilroys in khaki.
Wherever the GIs have traveled,
around the globe, they've - dis­covered
that Kilroy, some Kilroy,
has been there ahead of them —
and that he's done a surprising
number of things above and be��yond
the call of duty.
The Coca Raton, Fla. TRANS­MITTER,
another AAF newspaper,
laid claim a couple of weeks ago,
for instance, to the one and only,
"original" Kilroy.
The Boca Raton Kilroy's name
was Francis, and he was stationed
there in the winter of 1943 and
spring of 1944. He studied radio at
Scott Field, was at Truax Field,
Wis. before coming to Boca, and
after a short stay at Langley Field,
headed for Italy. That's the last
they heard from that one.
Correspondent Joseph Hearst of
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Will Operate
Own Airfield
On October 1
Base Inactivated
By ATC Recently
For the first time since its
activation as an AAF instal­lation,
this post will soon
boast not only its own air­planes
but its own airfield*
Col. Paul R. Younts, command­ing
officer, announced Wednesday
that this post and the PDC head­quarters
at Louisville will assume
full jurisdiction October 1 of the
Army facilities at the Greensboro-.
High Point airport formerly op*
erated by the ATC Ferrying Divi­sion.
The airport base was recently In­activated
by the 571st AAF Base
Unit of the ATC, and will be used
in the future by permanent party
flying personnel of this post and
by the thousands of returnee vet-erans
being processed here either
for reassignment or separation.
Arrangements for the transfer
were completed by Col. Younts and
Col. Leo Post of the Twentieth Fer­rying
Division of the ATC at Nash­ville,
and are contingent only upon
final approval of the commanding
general of ATC.
Post Facility
The airport base will be opened
again October 1 as an activity of
ORD-RS No. 5, and all former 571st
base unit facilities will be utilized.
A weather-station operated by
Weather Wing personnel from
Asheville will resume operation on
a 24-hour dally basis. Approximate­ly
200 competent military person­nel
will carry out the functions of
ground crews.
When this post was first ac­tivated
as an AAF basic training
center it boasted not a single plane
of its own. The first planes to ar­rive,
here were used by students in
mechanic, radio and other refresher,
courses but were never flown.
More recently the post acquired
several military planes for the use
of personnel on flying status, the
ships being based at the nearby air­port.
These planes will continue to
be based at the airport and will
soon be augmented by the arrival
of twelve L-5s, of the grasshopper"
variety.
Among the planes now based at
the airport are one C-45, two C-47s,
eight BT-13s, six AT-6As, two AT-
6Cs and one AT-6B.
Chaplain Sullivan
Begins Duty Here;
Succeeds Timmons
Capt. Michael D. Sullivan is the
latest addition to the chaplain's
staff at this post.
Ch. Sullivan will serve as the
Catholic chaplain, replacing. Ch.
Francis E. Timmons, who left the
post for an overseas assignment
after serving here for 17 months.
A native of Torrington, Conn.,
Chaplain Sullivan recently returned
to this country after serving over­seas
for 30 months. He was assigned
to the Twelfth Air Force both in
Africa and in Italy.
Practice Sessions
In Touch Football
Start Next Week
The practice session for the Post
Touch Football League will get
under way next Monday, October 1.
Five fields will be used and
teams will play each other twice
per week during the season.
There will be a twelve-team
league, each meeting the other
twice.
Regular two-hand touch rules
will be in effect. Games will be
played on a regulation size field,
nine men composing a team, and
quarters will be ten minutes long.