Fort Eustis

The bilge waste treatment study in Fort Eustis, Virginia, involved sampling and analysis of untreated bilge water aboard a number of different kinds of watercraft and of the treated effluent. The ballast water... 

There were few Negro troops in the Army in the peacetime period, and prior to 1940 the number of Negro units provided for in the Protective Mobilization Plan (PMP) was decidedly limited. No provision was made for any Negro chemical units. In the summer of 1940 the Assistant Chief of Staff, G-3, recommended modification of the PMP in order to provide more Negro units. The CWS initially felt the effects of the new policy when the ist Chemical Decontamination Company, constituted as a white company in the PMP, was activated on i August 1940 at Fort Eustis, Virginia, as a Negro unit. ... 

Several years ago, 1 was driving on a toll road in Norfolk, VA, en route to the Fort Eustis Army Base, where a transportation safety conference was being held. Of my students, three were with me. Each was scheduled to give a 15-minute talk at the conference. This was to be their first professional presentation and they appeared quite distressed. Each was paging frantically through his or her notes making last-minute adjustments. 

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