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332nd Engineer General Service Regiment

Want comment on how to improve the article to bring it to the best Wiki standards possible. Mfields1 14:06, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Comment on requirements for joining engineer regiments

I've always been curious about the requirements for joining engineer regiments. Were all members required to have engineering degrees from civilian colleges/universities? This information could benefit the article. Cedars 07:48, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

That's a great idea. Actually only some of the personell had degrees. They looked for people with working experience in a lot of works of life - welders, crane operatores, bulldozer operators, iron workers, etc. To mobilize about 90-95% of the personell did not have former Army experience - to make them into an Army unit they took Army NCO's who did not have engineering / consturction experience and oput them into the unit to "militarize" the civilians. They went through their own type of boot camp at Camp Claiborne. Thanks for the idea Mfields1 09:30, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for that information. Good luck with the article. Cedars 08:20, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Comment on expaning information about retrieval of V2 Rocket plans + eliminating trivial info

Consider what is important and what is trivia. I don't think that the specifics about the kind of truck the soldiers used to retrieve the plans is all that important (what is a 6x6, anyway?), but the retrieval of the rocket plans seems like a major accomplishment that could probably be lengthened. Also, what's going on with this unit now? Was it deactivated, merged into some other unit, etc? Bugmuncher 05:40, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback on lengthening the retrieval of the rocket plans. The regiment was deactivated, first in 1947; reactivated for the Korean War and deactivated again. There is a 332nd Engineering Company but it is not the same unit. A Regiment is a military unit size no longer used in the Army. For comparison a Regiment consists of about 6-7 Companies. Mfields1 09:41, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Added header line to distinguish constructive comments

Actual Peer Review

Since an actual peer review has not been conducted to confirm whether the cited document supports the V-2 rocket claims by Mfields1, a request for the relevant pages has been made.[1]