________________________________________________________________________Richard S. Kem
problem. Typically, people have found that, in moves of corporations and organizations, only
some 15 percent of the work force will move, and our estimate here is less than that, 10
percent. So, that is a real potential institutional problem.
General Kem (right) greeted Lieutenant Colonel Garth Hewish (center), British Liaison
Officer, and his wife Sheila when he was Commander of the Engineer School.
So, as a consequence, once the decision was made, I have tried to put our planning in focus
and to ensure we do it the best possible way. We've done that by trying to ensure with Fort
Leonard Wood that we'd think of all the things that need to be taken care of. We have
redesigned our programs of instruction for two of our courses, the advanced
noncommissioned officers course and the basic officers course, to take advantage of the fact
that we'll be able to, so to speak, fall out the academic classroom door into the field as
opposed to here doing so many weeks of classroom and then going down to A.P. Hill for
field training.
We've tried to address the meaning of different kinds of operations and what we want in the
new school building. We've incorporated some things that will make it a state of the art
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