A handful of nice precision engineering services photos I discovered:
Marking Out Scribers
Image by tudedude
Employed for scribing lines on metal – the reduced of the three is a Dental Pick that has been pressed into service.
2ID Living Insignia – Historic Photo – 21 May 2009 – US Army Korea – Second Infantry Division
Image by U.S. Army Korea (Historical Image Archive)
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2nd ID Warriors kind ‘living insignia’ for 2nd time in division history
By Master Sgt. Michael Pintagro
2nd Infantry Division Public Affairs
About five,000 Warriors from the 2nd Infantry Division developed a human version of the division’s distinctive Indianhead patch for only the second time in an organizational history dating from World War I Thursday morning (May possibly 21) at Indianhead Stage Field on Camp Casey, Korea.
A steady drizzle that persisted throughout the event may have dampened the Warriors’ wet climate gear and dress uniforms but it didn’t dampen the Soldiers’ resolve to take element in an historic occasion.
Organizers placed the initial human components of the division patch about 6 a.m. and continued to construct the insignia throughout the early morning, adding Warriors to the massive formation as they marched onto the field as firms, platoons and detachments. Different dress uniforms replicated the insignia colour scheme.
The insignia was built from the middle out, with the most intricate portions of the pattern established initial and the masses of Soldiers replicating the exterior placed last.
The division’s commanding basic, command sergeant main and senior staff stood at the base of the insignia. Around 9:25 the assembled Warriors looked up and a tiny army of division photographers – several mounted 35 feet higher in mechanical “cherry pickers” – commenced snapping shots.
Maj. Gen. John W. Morgan III, the commanding basic, addressed his Soldiers after the second-of-its type “photo op” in division history.
“Great job,” he told them. “You are component of history and part of the fantastic 2nd Infantry Division. I’m proud of each and every single 1 of you. Thank you for your service to the nation and to this great division.”
Warriors of all ranks, roles and profession fields from organizations and installations across the division’s footprint in Korea joined their leaders in the “patch.”
According to 2nd Lt. Michael Nuclo, the division engineer operations officer and a important occasion organizer, leaders produced a conscious effort to consist of all division units and ranks. “We’ll have Soldiers from every single substantial division hub,” he stated just before the occasion. “They’re coming from (camps) Hovey, Casey, Camp Red Cloud, Humphrey and K-16.”
Participants expressed enthusiasm for the opportunity to play a unique function in division history.
“When I initial got to Korea they took us to the 2nd ID Museum and showed us the original patch picture and mentioned if we have been here lengthy sufficient we may well get a possibility to recreate it,” mentioned Pfc. Isaac Buckman of Business F, 333rd Target Acquisition Battery, 210th Fires Brigade. “I believed that was genuinely cool, and it’s fantastic that I genuinely had an chance to do it.”
“This will go down in history and will usually be remembered,” added Pvt. Jeremiah Heard of Battery E, 143rd Air Defense Artillery, 210th Fires Brigade. Other Soldiers, he predicted, “will adore it and they will want they could do it just the very same way that we did.”
Occasion organizers seemed equally inspired by their achievement and relieved it came off with no a hitch.
“This was a deliberate operation like every thing else we do in this division,” said Lt. Col. Michael Anastasia, the division G-3 (operations officer) and the major figure in the preparing and execution of the living insignia. “The occasion was meticulously planned and executed precisely according to that strategy.”
“Everything went quite properly,” stated Lt. Col. Leroy Sharpe, the division engineer. “We knew it was going to rain and we planned for it. I’m glad it all came collectively so well. It was an honor and privilege to be element of history right now.”
“I consider it went very nicely,” added Sgt. 1st Class Kyle Roberts, the NCOIC of the division engineer shop. “It feels quite very good to be part of an occasion like this that hopefully will final an additional 84 years.”
The ceremony recreated an occasion performed 84 years ago at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, which served as division headquarters during the period among the Planet Wars.
“It’s the initial time this has been accomplished given that 1925,” stated William M. Alexander, the 2nd ID museum director and division historian. Organizational pride, heritage and esprit de corps, the retired Army colonel added, motivated each “living insignia” ceremonies.
“Living insignia” formations, Alexander noted, “were extensively popular during the ‘20s – that was almost certainly the higher point of their popularity. Maj. Gen. Morgan had the vision to do this once more.”
Alexander mentioned he plans to show the new living insignia photo alongside the 1925 image in the museum foyer.
Event organizers confronted daunting engineering, mechanical and logistical challenges. Conducting a five,000-Soldier formation, with all its inherent transportation and scheduling troubles, represents a substantial feat in itself. Event and unit leaders worked tirelessly to ensure consistency in uniform and precision in placement.
Division engineers faced a particularly daunting job: figuring out and implementing the correct configuration and dimensions. This necessary engineers to establish models projecting the probably look of the Soldiers from a vantage point 35 feet higher and to the front of the formation, and arranging five,000 Warriors in accordance with that vision.
“We used personal computer models – there are mathematical equations we used based on the patch design and adjusting for the slope of the angle from 35 feet,” Nuclo stated.
“For all our technological positive aspects I’m not positive what we did was a lot different from what they did in 1925,” he added with a smile. “That was a generation of Americans that constructed a lot of amazing things.”
Organizers and observers described the present as an perfect time for the division to recreate the insignia.
“Service on the Korean Peninsula is so crucial a component of the division’s heritage it is only proper they do this on the peninsula,” Alexander stated. “The division suffered the highest number and proportion of casualties in the course of the war and its members received the highest number of awards. Over half of the division’s service has been in Korea. It’s due to that Korean War legacy Gen. Douglas MacArthur said, ‘No division I’ve ever commanded is greater than the 2nd ID.’”
“This is a time in the history of the division when the camaraderie and esprit de corps have in no way been higher,” Anastasia stated. “In my 21 years of service I’ve never ever been component of an organization with such a spirit of brotherhood, so this was an ideal time to take the image.”
Nuclo drew an historical parallel among the generations of Warriors pictured in the previous and present living insignia photographs.
“The older guys in that image would have served in Planet War I, and most of the younger guys would serve later in Planet War II,” Nuclo stated of the 1925 photo. “So you had a unique moment when most of the participants served in 1 of the two greatest wars of their era. Now our Soldiers are either on their way from or sooner or later going to Iraq or Afghanistan – the two wars of our era.”
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