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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.