I graduated from basic training at Camp Gordon, Ga., in July 1951 during the Korean 'Police Action' and was sent to Fort Monmouth, N.J., to become a radar repairman and pole linemen. When we were drafted, at the rate of 50,000/month, none of us knew where in the Army we would end up being. I suspect that those that became pole linemen took the most Signal Corps casualties. The radios were much less secure than field telephones as a means of communication.

In Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway's book "The Korean War," in the index there is no reference to communications, radio, pole linemen or Signal Corps support. We in the Signal Corps were reminded that the U. S. Infantry is the "Queen of Battle," and that every other military unit, including the Army Signal Corps, Army Artillery, Quartermaster Corps, Army Materiel Command, Intelligence Corps, Logistics Corps, Army Medical Corps, Nurse Corps, Corps of Engineers, Ordnance Corps, Chemical Corps, Army Aviation, chaplains, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Coast Guard and Merchant Marine all support the U. S. Infantry.

Actually, each of the above organizational units deserve a special article on their history and duties. It is assumed that some space will be allotted to each unit in the new National Museum of the U.S. Army at Fort Belvoir, Va.