Read Hamner
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Originally Posted on 09:23:30 10/08/03
I am now back in Falls Church, VA, after spending the fall semester at VMI, teaching a seminar on Counterproliferation and National Security. I pretty much could let the daily news set my lesson plans.
Attached is a photo of C Company, 14th Engineers (PS), taken on the parade ground at Fort William McKinley in October 1937. My father, the CO, retired from the Army in 1964 as a Major General after, inter alia, tours as Asst Chief of Engineers for Military Operations, CG of Fort Belvoir, and as the first Chief the Office of Personnel Operations for the Army. He later joined Radio Free Europe as Director of Budget and Finance.
The Company XO, Jack Graham, also retired as a General, and then headed the building of the Washington, DC, Metro system.
I hadn't noticed, until I enlarged the picture, that in typical Engineer fashion, there are strings laid on the ground to ensure straight lines!
Read Hanmer, Col. USA (Ret.)
Editor's Note: A photo of C Company, a panorama of the whole Battalion and other photos are available from the history page of our website--click on "see photos" in the black margin.)
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