As inconceivable as it may seem, the Army actually issued a report card to its Adjutant General School "students." I received good grades so they rewarded me with a higher skill level MOS (military occupational specialty) and Specialist Four eagles. I had been in the Army less than six months and already held a rank equivalent of what we used to jokingly call a corporal who could read and write! In addition to the novelty of the report card, it is apparent that the Adjutant General Corps was still using punch cards for data processing in 1968.

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US FIFTH ARMY

The Army of the 1960s built Esprit de Corps in its ranks by furthering the notion of distinction within the collective whole and by faithfully acknowledging  individual, as well as unit achievement. Every command in the Army from company to division seemed to have had its own

personal nickname or identity that was often visualized in medallions and voiced in drill or ceremony. US forces in Vietnam expanded this practice through the use of unauthorized insignia and nicknames. The US Army Adjutant General School distributed a particularly ornate certificate of achievement to its graduates.