Bio: Mayenschein, Leland – Sgt. (Army Exercises – 1962)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Mayenschein

----Source: Greenwood Gleaner (Greenwood, Clark Co., Wis.) 31 May 1962

Fort Riley, Kansas (AHTNC) – Army Sgt. Leland D. Mayenschein, who wife, Sharon, lives in Greenwood (Clark Co.), Wisconsin, recently participated with other personnel from the 1st Infantry Division's 140 Signal Battalion in Exercises Red Arrow, a 31-day series of tactical field training maneuvers at Fort Riley, Kansas.

Exercise Red Arrow, designed to maintain the "Big Red One" Divison in combat ready condition, featured artillery, mortar and small arms firings and combat training maneuvers against an "Aggressor" force.

Sgt. Mayenschein, a field cable team chief in Company B of the battalion, entered the Army in October 1957 and was last stationed in Germany.

The 23-year-old soldier is a 1956 graduate of Greenwood High School. Before entering the Army, he was employed by the Allen-Bradley Co. in Milwaukee.