________________________________________________________________________Richard S. Kem
Later on, when we reorganized the personnel function and went to a centralized shop there,
we did a similar kind of thing. In the Corps' sense of accounting for personnel, there are
those in districts that are charged out certain ways and those in divisions that are overhead.
So, we always had to be careful to ensure that we were addressing FTEs that were really
district level work, collocated for efficiency as district kind of FTEs.
Q:
Different from overhead?
A:
Different from overhead, which was the division.
Q:
How about in the military real estate function, which came at the same time, the recruiting
stations, for example. I think this was one of the biggest areas that any division had.
A:
Yes, it was.
Q:
I think you were the lead in that.
A:
Yes. I think in numbers of activities we were very big, I guess, because of Chicago and
Detroit and Indianapolis, Nashville and Louisville. I mean, those kinds of places, including
Columbus, had large numbers of recruiting centers.
Recruiters were always changing centers. I mean, it was endemic to that business that each
year they would decide that they could improve recruiting if they could just have that better
location down the street. So, there was a high turnover business.
So, our people in Louisville were very active in that business, and there was a lot of road
time spent doing that.
Q:
Now, was that handled out of the Real Estate Division, Louisville District?
A:
Out of Louisville District.
Q:
Those were probably leased, weren't they?
A:
Yes, leased.
Q:
For recruiting?
A:
Yes.
Q:
In terms of land acquisition for military bases, there probably wasn't a whole lot of activity.
A:
No. Our real estaters also handled installation contract property use. If there were contracts,
like at the Indiana Ammunition Plant for farmers to graze cattle, then that was handled by
Real Estate. If there were timbering contracts, that was handled out of Real Estate as well.
There was a large amount of activity in that respect at the various installations.
Q:
I am interested in a couple of different types of questions, if we can change subjects.
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