Army Specialist Corps

Another source of officer material was the Army Specialist Corps, fostered by the Army as a means of building up a quasi-military corps of scientific, technical, and administrative personnel. This corps was activated in the spring of 1942. Its members, many of whom had minor physical... 

The Army Specialist Corns was activated under Executive Order 9078, 26 February 1942. See WD Bull ii. Sec. ii, 1942, and WD Army Specialist Corps Regulations (Tentative, 1942, G—I, 16545—46, Part III). For a general discussion of the Specialist Corps, see Millett, Army Service Forces, p. loi, and Henry P. Seidemann, "Army Specialist Corps," Army Ordnance, XXIII (194a), 502-04. 

Maj. Gen. Dwight F. Davis, Director General of the Army Specialist Corps, with Lt. Col. William E. Jeffrey. Both are wearing the ASC uniform, distinguished by buttons and insignia of black plastic. 

ASC Army Specialist Corps a type of charcoal used for gas masks... 

Water has always been a supply and logistical factor in battle. Considerable resources are spent by the militaiy to ensure that essential battlefield hydration requirements are met. The US Army Quartermaster Corps has a 92W Military Occupation Specialty for Water Treatment Specialist. The 92W is responsible for installation and operation of water purification equipment, water storage and distribution operations and activities. ... 

The situation posed was thus. A large Chinese army had penetrated far into Vietnam, and was advancing on the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. American troops based in Thailand were unable to break through to intercept the Chinese advance. The President ordered a biological strike. At the end of their analysis of this theoretical attack, the Chemical Corps specialists concluded that while some three quarters of the enemy army would have been killed or disabled, so too would six hundred thousand supposedly friendly or neutral civilians. 

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