Special Service Force

Composed of Canadians and Americans, this regimenc sired unit was a specially trained task force and not, as the name implies, a service force in the normal sense. 

During the prewar years and on into the first few months of the war the Chief, CWS, was under the direct jurisdiction of the Chief of Staff. There was constant consultation between the General Staff and the CWS staff over matters of policy. In March 1942, under a major War Department reorganization, another echelon of command was placed between the supply arms and services and the General Staff. That echelon, commanded by General Somervell, was the Services of Supply, or as it was later called, the Army Service Forces. Chart 4) From that time until after the close of the war, policy matters were usually formulated after consultation between ASF staff officers and their opposite numbers in the CWS. At times War Department General and Special Staff officers had direct contact with CWS personnel, as in the case of the United States Chemical Warfare Committee, but such contact was the exception rather than the rule. ... 

These were entertainers who were members of the Special Services, ASF. See Millett, Army Service Forces, p. J48. 

The chiefs of the technical services had two distinct fields of responsibility. Each administered an important procurement and supply agency, supervision of which was delegated by the War Department to Headquarters, Army Service Forces. At the same time each branch chief was a technical adviser to the Chief of Staff and/or the Secretary of War in his special field, the Surgeon General in the field of medicine, the Chemical Officer in the field of chemical warfare, and so forth. In this latter capacity, the relationship of the technical branch to the War Department was naturally direct rather than through the commanding general, ASF. It was the practice of the Chief of Staff, when circumstances demanded, to curtail... 

Logistics in World War II, Final Report of the Army Service Forces, pp. 214-15. (2) Memo, Dir Special Planning Div WDGS for CWS, 30 Jul 43, sub Demobilization Planning. CWS 314.7 Demobilization Planning File. 

Lubricated cylinders use a separate mechanical lubricator to force feed, in metered droplet form, a very precise amount of lubricant to specified points. This minimizes the amount of lubricant in the cylinder and allows a lubricant most compatible with the gas to be selected without compromising the frame lubrication system. Lubricant is fed to a point or points on the cylinder to service the piston rings and the packing when required. In a few cases, as in air compressors, the packing is lubricated from the crankcase. On some applications involving wet CO7 or H2S m the gas stream, special materials may be avoided if one of the lubrication points IS connected to the suction pulsation dampener. 

Nuclear Weapon Major Assemblies are packaged for shipment in accordance with the applicable service technical manuals viz, Army-TM s (Technical Manuals) (Ref 35), Navy-SWOP s (Special Weapons Operational Procedures), and Air Force-TO s (Technical Orders), etc. 

History The secret was released some time after World War II when it became apparent that British forces provided a grenade specially concocted with botulinal toxins to kill Reinhard Heydrich, the much feared head of the Nazi Security Service, better known as the SD. After the successful killing in the Prague, Czechoslovakia, the stunned Germans shot and burned the town of Lidice (where free-Czechs from Britain had been parachuted in kill Heydrich), and arrested an estimated 10,000 Czechs. 

In recent years, the competition for the food dollar has increased, forcing conventional food stores to rethink their pricing and product mix. Discount mass merchandise stores, warehouse stores and supercenters have managed to get a larger market share because of their lower prices. In an effort to draw consumers away from specialized stores, like butcher shops or natural foods stores, some supermarkets have included a full service meat counter with butchers on call and a natural foods section for those who prefer those foods, among other changes. 

The role of the national and state governments in the health care system is limited to those entitlement programs that have been legislated into federal or state law or where there is a federal and state partnership. Federal involvement in the provision of health care services began with the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS), an agency of the U.S. government. The PHS was established in 1798 to provide essential health care services to merchant marine personnel and members of the U.S. armed forces. Subsequent federal involvement in the provision of and the payment for health care has incrementally increased to include care for individuals with special entitlements. The latter include veterans of the armed forces, the elderly, indigent people. Native... 

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