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Colonel Beukema Urges
Inspired Guidance

Colonel Herman Beukema, Director of the Army
Specialized Training Division, in a recent address before
a group of officials engaged in the work of the Army Spe-
cialized Training Program, urged that trainees be inspired
to an understanding of the importance of their objective.

‘‘T am asking you then, gentlemen, to do something
more than to teach these men’’, said Colonel Beukema.

‘It is not enough to conduct them along the hard
path to Q.E.D. at the end of a proposition in geometry;
not enough to guide their way through the mazes of en-
gineering; not enough to house, feed, and keep them in
good health, I ask you to inspire them, to arouse them to
a full sense of the importance of their work and a reali-
zation of the service they are rendering their country.

“‘Tt would be easy to say that such matters should
be left to the men in uniform, to the Commandant and his
assistants. But, gentlemen, you are in uniform. You may
be wearing the élothing of the civilian, Nontheless, when
your institution comes into this program, you are under
as full an obligation to your country as any member of the
Armed Forces. The casual observer may ignore that
fact; posterity will give it the recognition it deserves’’.

100,000 in Training
At the beginning of September, more than 100,000

soldiers were in training at 209 A.S.T. Units. In addition,
more than 16,000 soldiers were at STAR Units atthat time.

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