Division Support Command

Echelon II medical care, found at the division level and all higher levels, is provided at the clearing station by the treatment platoon of the medical company of the main support battalion and the forward support battalion of the Division Support Command (DISCOM). Here the casualty is evaluated to determine the priority for continued... 

Dr Raymond F. Walker, Energetics Materials Division Chief, provided financial support and encourage meat to continue this work, as did Mr Edward J. Kolb of Headquarters, US Army Materiel Development and Readiness Command (DARCOM). Further financial support was received from the sale of copies to non-government agencies and individuals by the National Technical Information Service, US Department of Commerce, Springfield, Va 22161... 

Department of Chemistry, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio. This work was supported by Wright Air Development Division of the United States Air Force, Air Research and Development Command, under Contract No. AF 35(616)-6607. 

July 1941 the new commander in Malaya, General A. E. Percival, estimated that five divisions, instead of ten brigades were required. As the official history notes, it was evident by that date that existing plans for the defence of Malaya had broken down . ° Nevertheless, Churchill, anxious to support the Soviet Union, which had suffered heavy defeats since June, particularly with regard to its air force, preferred in August to offer to send 445 modem fighter aircraft to Murmansk. ... 

It was Razum s way of telling them all the certainties he had foreseen, the futures he could never relate in words that if the plan failed, then Mogushestvo would raze Sverdlovsk and plough their corpses into the frozen soil, with sufficient armour left in Omsk to grind Wargaard s proud divisions to a fine powder that if the Doctor failed, then Razum would allow that to happen and take command of the Alliance, division by division, to claim the Earth and all its territories as his own. And if the Doctor succeeded, then all of this would be irrelevant, and the Earth and all of his officers, his staff, support personnel and rank-and-file troopers and the rest of the human race would join him and Dusha in a new life. In an embrace of solar flame. 

The support of the Advanced Research Projects Agency, Washington, D. C. 20330, and the Air Force Rocket Propulsion Laboratory, Research and Technology Division, Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., Air Force Systems Command, U.S. Air Force, under whose sponsorship this work was conducted, is gratefully acknowledged. 

Naval Sea Systems Command Engineering Support Division Dept of the Navy Washington, DC 20360... 

Received December 4, 1973. Work was supported by the Dental Division of the Army Medical Research and Development Command and the National Institute for Dental Research. 

This work was supported by the Director, Office of Energy Research, Office of Science, Division of Materials Sciences, of the U. S. Department of Energy, and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Air Force Material Command, USAF. 

Nevertheless, reaction of ground commanders who had been supported by the chemical mortars was generally favorable, and most of them advocated chemical mortar support for all divisions committed to action. Among their comments were "the equivalent of real artillery, which the chemical mortar was not, and "the most eflfective single weapon used in support of infantry, a statement to which it had fair claim. 

A feature of the fight for San Pietro was the introduction of a self-propelled 4.2-inch mortar, designed to provide the infantry with a means of more mobile support and armored units with a weapon with a high angle of fire. Developed by Colonel Barker and the 36th Division ordnance officer, at the instigation of the latter s commander,... 

Unfortunately, the smoke screen mission fired for the men stranded on the far bank of the Rapido seriously interfered with the observation of the corps artillery. With communications out and with infantry positions unknown, effective artillery support was impossible. There were also misunderstandings regarding the use of smoke. In a 23 January conference between the 36th Division chemical officer and Capt. James O. Quimby, Jr., commanding Company A, 2d Chemical Battalion, the former commented on the density of enemy smoke at the site of the bridgehead. Quimby had to explain that this was his smoke, not German, a fact unknown to division as well as corps. ... 

The 3d Battalion fired 7,000 rounds of ammunition in twelve hours of preparatory fire. Each of the four companies supported a French division, three of them by direct attachment to the infantry and the fourth through the control of division artillery. The latter company did the least firing, primarily because of delays encoimtered in securing firing data, a circumstance which prompted the battalion commander to recommend strongly that this company also be placed under infantry control. The enemy lines broke by the middle of the second day, and mortar support decreased. By 27 May the pursuit became so rapid that the battalion was placed in corps reserve and remained there until relieved from attachment to the FEC on 11 June. 

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