Officer Candidate Class 4-64
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Officer Candidate Class 4-64
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Courtesy: Ron Sommer
OCS CLASS 4-64 NEWSLETTER 2516 Bauernschmidt Drive Baltimore, Maryland 21221-1738 (410) 391-6687 ronsommer@earthlink.net
No. 4-11 5 December 2011
The Sommer family wishes the members of OCS Class 4-64 and their families a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year. May 2012 bring you health, happiness and prosperity. THE WALL Although I live just over 40 miles away, I had never taken the time to visit the Viet Nam Memorial in Washington, DC. Paul “Hose Nose” Skoglund offered many times to take me but I always found an excuse to say no. I daily “kick myself in the butt” for this as Paul has since Answered the Last Roll Call and it now too late for us to visit “The Wall” together. That being said, my family and I visited “The Wall” in August 2011 and I was able for the first time to “lay my hand” on the names of our classmates who made the supreme sacrifice in that war. If you visit “The Wall”, here are our classmate’s names and where to find them – Classmate Panel Line Devers, David R. 9E 132 Gardner, James A. 5E 11 Grant, Joseph X. 12E 67 Keller, Charles H, 22W 121 Pearson, George B. III 10E 109 Sanford, John F. 5E 15 Schneeman, Clifford W. Jr. 29E 26 Wellons, Hugh W. 11E 73 We also visited the World War II and the Korean War memorials as well as the Memorial dedicated to the nurses who served in Viet Nam. There is also a memorial to World War I but it was under restoration and could not be visited. The WWI memorial has a unique history. In the early 1920’s, it was paid for by the City of Washington, DC and dedicated by the President “to the people of the United States”. This is where confusion began – it was never a US memorial and therefore it never received Federal funding for maintenance. DC paid for the memorial’s upkeep. The WWI Memorial was built so that the US Marine Corps Band could give regular concerts and these performances were done up to the start of WWII. Since WWII the city has provided little or no funds for maintenance and the memorial has fallen into disuse. Over-grown with weeds and vegetation and its granite eroding away, it was in sorry shape. Now the US Park Service has taken over its maintenance and it is well on its way to a full and complete restoration. All 5 memorials are within walking distance and all can be visited in one day’s time. Awesome visit! I am glad I made the trip – so should you. 48TH REUNION April 11/12-15, 2012 in San Antonio, TX. There are 3 attendance categories for our Reunion: (1) Classmates who have sent in registration forms and cash to Chuck Kierce. To date Evans, Kierce, Lordi, Rutland, Sommer, Volkman and Williford. (2) Category 2 are classmates who have indicated they are coming but have not as yet registered or made any cash deposits. As of this writing, Browning, Carter, Farr, Hjorth, Reynolds, and Tyson. (3) The third category is those classmates who have not committed or responded in any way. This is the group that we are most concerned with as we need your registration and cash in order to firm up our hotel reservations as well as our reunion activities counts. Please be reminded that our special hotel rate shuts down 2 months prior to our Reunion date so you must make your reservations as soon as possible. Contact the Airport Holiday Inn Select at (888) 615-1518, use the code “OCS Class 4-64 Reunion”, and get your $ 99 or $ 119 (suite) rate. Be also reminded that we will refund monies to those who are later precluded from attending. Remember to check in on the class web site (www.ocs4-64.org) for the latest Reunion news as well as other class news. Gerry kleinsmith Writes “Well my learned friend, I assume the club you are referring to was the PT Test. It was supposed to be called the 500 Club, that is, if you scored 100 points in the 5 tests. No one in our company did it so they called it the 460 Club to have more guys in the club. I can remember I scored 100 in each of the first 4 tests but the mile run did me in. I remember Tac Schmidlin running beside me trying to get me to run faster to get the 100 points. His words of compassion were “Go faster and you can die when you finish!” I felt like I was going to anyway. I only scored 90 points in the run. I am totally surprised with your physical adeptness that you weren’t in the club. The word in the 5th Platoon was that you always looked forward to doing the chin up bar to get in to the mess hall. Do you recall the 5 PT Test events? They were: 40 yard low crawl, monkey bars, run-dodge-and jump, grenade throw and mile run. (Ed note: As Gerry well knows, when I arrived at OCS I could not do one chin up. When I graduated 23 weeks later, I could do one. I was in the best shape of my life. Now I am back to zero chin ups again!) CHANGES Email Change Leigh Ruff leighruffhaus@gmail.com ATTENTION LARRY NAUGHTON Email messages sent to jcagnp@valornet.com have been returned. Please send me your current email address. Thank you. Ron Sommer DO YOU REMEMBER The 10-mile forced march to be completed in 2 hours or less? Or was it 3 hours or less? The mind is now fuzzy! All I can remember is being in the 5th Platoon meant our platoon was the last platoon in the march column and we ran most of the way to keep up. And by the time we were poised to take over the lead (and the next rest), the march was over! Anyway, my blisters had blisters and my feet were sore for a few days afterward. You too?
TAPS. Candidates Charles D. Adams, Larry D. Allgood, David R. Barnett, D. Page Bazler, Joseph A. Binelli, Richard C. Cauzza, Edward W. Cavanaugh Jr., Ronald J. Chellman, David R. Devers, Jack L. Edwards, Jeffrey H. Ehrhart, Henry F. Franklin, Edwin M. Frazier, James A. Gardner, Joseph X. Grant, Anthony B. Hicks, Fred C. Hite, Jerry L. Isler, Charles H. Keller, George Lamonte, Eugene P. Loughran, Harry H. McWilliams II, Thomas M. Naylon, Gary W. Offineer, George B. Pearson III, Stuart J. Perkins, Jerald F. Pittenger, Alfred H. Roberts, Marion M. Robinson, Charles W. Rowell, Edwin R. Ruff, John F. Sanford, Clifford W. Schneeman Jr., Milton C. Sikes Jr., Paul E. Skoglund, Clifford M. Straughter, William S. Vogel, Hugh W. Wellons, Lloyd L. Young Jr., Tactical Officer James W. Bennett Jr. and 1SG Jessie L. Hobbs have Answered the Last Roll Call. Rest in Peace faithful classmates and comrades.
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