Bio: Schwieso, Bruce D. – Staff Sgt. (Joint Training Exercise – 1972)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Schwieso

----Source: Tribune/Record/Gleaner (Loyal, Wis.) 13 Apr 1972

Staff Sergeant Bruce D. Schwieso, son of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore H. Schwieso of R.F. D. 2, Loyal (Clark Co.), Wisconsin, recently participated in a giant joint services training exercise at Ft. Hood, Texas.

Sergeant Schwieso is a U.S. Air Force aircraft loadmaster with the 516th Tactical Airlift Wing at Dyess AFB, Texas.

More than 23, 000 Army, Air Force, Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard personnel are taking part in the largest joint operation to be conducted in the United States since the Vietnam buildup in 1965. The exercise, dubbed "Gallant Hand," is the first in a series of large scale maneuvers planned by the U.S. Readiness Command.

A mythical overseas command established at Ft. Hood provides the setting for Gallant Hand. The command is being reinforced by a U.S. based armored division and Air Force tactical airlift, fighter and reconnaissance units, which are being employed in simulated combat operations.

The Tactical Air Command provides F-111 and F-4 Phantom fighter bomber, RF-4 Phantom reconnaissance, C-130 Hercules and C-12 Provider cargo-transport, and OV-10 Bronco forward air controller aircraft for the two-week exercises.

Sergeant Schwieso, a 1968 graduate of Loyal High School, has completed 11 months of duty in Vietnam.