Chumney, Waverly T

1-jul-1945

army-separation-qualification-record

wd-ago-form-100

last-name: Chumney

suffix:

first-name: Waverly

middle-initial: T.

serial-number: 33 122 165

grade: T4/ Tec 4

permanent-address: Box 698 Blacksburg, Montgomery County, Virginia

date-of-entry: 1941-12-04

date-of-separation: 1946-01-25

date-of-birth: 1913-09-02

place-of-separation: Separation Center Fort George G. Meade, Maryland

military-occupational-assignments

1-months: 2

1-grade: Pvt

1-military-occupational-specialty: 521 Basic

1-notes: Coast Artillery Corps Basic Training

2-months: 5

2-grade: Pfc

2-military-occupational-specialty: 526 Balloon Crewman

2-notes:

3-months: 10

3-grade: Sgt

3-military-occupational-specialty: 526 Balloon Crewman

3-notes: Crew Chief

4-months: 7

4-grade: Sgt

4-military-occupational-specialty:

4-notes: Section Leader (2601)

5-months: 4

5-grade: Sgt

5-military-occupational-specialty: 946 Searchlight NCO

5-notes:

6-months: 16

6-grade: T4/ Tec 4

6-military-occupational-specialty: 228 Survey And Instrument Man

6-notes:

7-months:

7-grade:

7-military-occupational-specialty:

7-notes:

8-months:

8-grade:

8-military-occupational-specialty:

8-notes:

summary-of-military-occupations: SURVEY & INSTRUMENT MAN - Served with the Headquarters Battery, 862nd Field Artillery Battalion (Survey) - Set up and operated survey and fire control instruments to locate gun positions, observation posts, or to conduct survey operations. Used all types of survey instruments including, transits, aiming ciraled, B.C. scopes and prismatic compass. Kept field notes and made sketches of terrain.

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military-education: None

civilian-education

highest-completed-grade: 1 yr college

degrees: None

year-left-school: 1934

name-of-last-school: Blackstone College

address-of-last-school: Blackstone, Virginia

major-courses: Bookkeeping

other-training-or-schooling

course-name-address-date: None

duration:

civilian-occupations: INSTRUMENT MAN III - Worked for the Department of Agriculture, Nottoway County, West Virginia from 1937 to 1940. Set up, adjusted and operated transits and other surveyors instruments to determine the acreage of farms. Supervised other works such as chainmen, in performing the surveying tasks.

additional-information: None

name-of-discharging-officer: Sophus F. Peterson, 1st Lt. A.C.