the enemy,so enabling the company,which had been held up,to advance victor
iously.
He was also commended in Cr#0.16,1921,of this Post,for assisting
on Nov.27th,1921,in the rescue of Mr.Schroeder, of Haines,Alaska,who had
been wrecked on a reef below Point Shernan,in Lynn Canal,by launching a
life boat with Private Powers,and bringing Mr.Schroeder to the Harbor
Boat "Peterson”,at great risk and danger to himself.
4. The best wished of officers and men of Fort William H.Seward
for his future welfare and happiness accompany Sgt.Hashy as he returns
to private lif there to continue,as in the past, to uphold the best tra
ditions of the United Sxates Army*
By order of ^ajor Donaldsons
R.F.Edwards, Adjutant.
AND CORP*HURD GETS OHB GUI;:
With trie final returns in on the Rifle Range
Records for the current year.,we're able at last te list the 10 High
Men for the season* 'Jhe rssults obtained on the local range have been
excellent, -remarkable, in fact;-but the leading shots out of the total
number that fired over the course* this year are as follows!
Corpral Hurd •*•••••••* 325*
Corporal Colburn ****** 324*
Capt.Goode •*•**•*,.»»• 323*
Sgt.Howell «••••*••**•« 317*
Pvt«Rudy 316*
Pvt.Morris .... 315*
Pvt*£agley *»••*•«•«**• 315*
v Corporal RusSell 313*
SgtStatzer #*••#•«*••« 312*
PvtvBruhn •••*•••*»*•»• 311.
The pistol that, was set aside for the man making the high
score on the Post goes to Cpl.Hurd,now of "F” Company,who shot under
the colors of the late lamented Headquarters Company .Congratulations, -
Corporal,-you earned it well#
But we’ll say that all ten of the leaders hung up records
that will give succeeding rifle classes something to shoot at* When it
comes to rifle records, ol’ Fort Seward doffs its chapeau to blame few
of the Posts in this man’s Army,And we’ll let that ride.li
EXPERT RIFLEMEN IN ALL ARMS:
The results of the Pistol Record shooting are
published on another page of this issue,but we want to call attention
to the fact that the honor of gaining the Expert Rifleman badge in all
three arms,-rifle,automatic, and pistol,-gees to but two men on the Post:
Major Donaldson and Captain Hoss- Several of the garrison xjualified as
Experts in two of the branches,-some did not fire all three arms,-but
the two above mentioned officers proved themselves the class of the
whole Post by the records that they made.
Their score'*! were as follows:
Major Geo.C.Donaldson:
Rifle ... 322 Automatic 551 Pistol ..86.5
Capt.Chas-A.Hoss:
Rifle ... 298 Automatic ... 533 • Pistol ..83.2
And we'll say that's shooting!!I