Thanks for getting me connected with the group.
I would suggest that the definition of "Subase Plank Owner" be everyone from the first drill weekend. However, I think we should leave this somewhat open until the August reunion.
I don't have a listing of the entire unit at the first drill weekend. However, I have a listing of everyone who went on the first ACDUTRA to Subase Pearl in March 1978.
They are:
A. A. ANDERSON CDR
E. A. KIMBALL LT
D. L. FRANCIS LT
D. F. ASMUS MMFN
R. A. ANDERSON MM2
W. J. BENTFIELD TMC
E. H. BORGEN FTG1
R. J. DENNIS EM1
J. M. DELANEY ICC
P. D. DULAC IC3
E. A. ERICKSON YN2
C. J. FITZSIMMONS MM1
D. A. FOSSE PNC
R. A. GOOD TM2
E. W. GROVER SK2
J. F. JOHNSON TM2
L. E. MANN MM3
E. J. MATTOX TM2
D. L. NEU ETN2
D. W. OLSON HT2
D. E. OSTENSON ETN2
A. J. RENTMEESTER HT2
C. G. SCHMIDT EM1
D. R. ULBRECHT HTC
K. R. WENLUND HT3
W. K. TEETZEL EN3
T. A. SCHEIE ET1
S. P. HARMON TMC
If you give me your mailing address I'll send you a copy of our first POD. It was back in the days when long hair was the big thing, morale in the military was generally low, and discipline was somewhat lax. We must have been scheduled for a personnel inspection the next drill weekend and I was worried about the results. Now that I think about it, I did have the OK from the Reserve Center CO to hand-pick many of the original personnel and I think that the majority were outstanding men who made my job a lot easier - that also is true for future CO's. If you were a screw-up, you didn't fit very well into our unit. Another thing I remember about personnel inpections -- everytime I got to the TM's I always felt like a midget, those guys were really tall and I think they got up on their tip toes just to make me feel smaller.
Please let me know if there is something more I can do. I'll keep looking around the house for any other information I might have.
Also, I'll be attending the reunion