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Vol. 1 No. 3 Service Command Unit 1922 if Fort Huachuca, Arizona October 13, IM4 p nnrrr oht mni b uHlII: Sb m- L AUTHOR OF"HUACHUCA" REVISITS THE FORT Back at Fort Huachuca for a short rest before continuing his duties as USO music co-ordinator for the Ninth Service Command Area is Captain Joe Jordan (retired), the man who start ed Huachuca singing. Since last July, Capt. Jordan has made an itinery of Ninth Service com mand camps, teaching soldiers how to sing. He estimates that he has tu tored groups that amount to over 100,OCX) men since he has taken over the USO assignment, not to mention the scores of thousands he made more tuneful during his career as an ac tive music officer at the Fort., Capt, Jordan f s stop-over at Fort Huachuca comes after he has worked at Fort Douglas, Hill Field and Camp Kearns in Utah; Walla Walla and Fort Lewis in Washington; and Camp Knight ana Camp LcQuade in California, His itinery will carry him through eight Con»t, on page 3 LETTER TO POST SCRIPT I am much pleased that with our reduced personnel and the many readjustments required in changing from an active to an inactive status that the Special Service Division has found it possible to issue a mimeographed weekly paper for the garrison during the sus pension .of our regular newspaper, the Apache Sentinel.* 1 suggest all military and civilian personnel use the paper as a medium of publishing matters of common interest to us all. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE SPECIAL SERVICE DIVISION FOURTH ARMY - SCUTE AMS CLASH AT WELLS STADIUM Football fever is high at the Fort as the 4th Amy eleven tapers-off training in preparation for tomorrow*s opening game against SCU's gridiron team. 4th Army has rank over the SCU, all of its starting players but one being sergeants or corporals; but the Post team has weight advantage over the New Cantonment footballers. The SCU»s for ward line weighs an average of 207 lbs, while its backfield averages 194 lbs. All but one of the 4th Amy players has been a member of tank—destroyer outfits, however, and they swear they will bust the heavier SCU line just like they have learned to bust a Mark IV Tank. 'The game - will be' played at Wells Stadium at 2:00 p.ra. Saturday. The Post band and 4th Amy band will vie a gainst each other musically during the contest. Signed, <§ yloflOrL—Edwin N» Hardy iOoitfilander A n I ZONA