Personal - Select Individuals - Schemmer, Benjamin (Editor of the Armed Forces Journal), bulk: 1968 - 1982

File — Box: 10, Folder: 11

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The collection is divided into 20 series:

Personal (1938-1997) 201 (Personnel) Files (1942-1970) SAWS (1960s-1982) Journals (1971-1989) World War II Service (1943-1945) Fort Benning I (1945-1946) Berlin (1946-1949) Fort Benning II (1950-1952) Korea (1952-1953) Fort Campbell (1954-1955) Fort Leavenworth (1956-1959) Turkey/NATO (1959-1961) RDTF (Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation) (Weapons Systems) (1961-1962) Secretary of Defense Division of System Analysis (1962-1963) Fort Ord (1964-1967) Bureau of the Budget (1967-1969) RAND (1969-1972) Blue Ribbon Panel Intrec (1972-) Miscellaneous Materials Audio-visual materials (1940s-1980s) 1930s-1980s 153 boxes (57 l.f.)

Dates

Other: Majority of material found within 1968 - 1982

Extent

From the Collection: 57.0 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Materials Specific Details

Included are copies of Journal of the Armed Forces, June 1968, and April 1982. Along with the journal copies are notes on Schemmer, a copy of "The Structuring of General Purpose Forces," by J.S. Stockfisch and letters between Hallock and Schemmer. Schemmer was looking to Hallock to provide advice on a book he was writing called Because It's There, about engineers and scientists inventing solutions to problems that do not exist.