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Mobile Museum Education Program 1

Introduction

When we talk about great baseball players the highest grade a player can have is that he is referred to as a 5-tool player.  That means that he can hit for average, hit for power as in home runs, he can run the bases well with good speed, he has a strong throwing arm and he is an exemplary fielder.  Take Corey Seager of the Rangers, he does all of these functions at a very high level.  They are the fundamentals of a great baseball player; and he has practiced and works on these all of the time.

Ted Williams was one of the greatest baseball hitters ever.  He wrote a book called "The Science of Hitting".  The speed of a bat striking a ball imparts a force that propels the ball on an arch over the fence.  It's a good math problem, determining the exit velocity and what you might call a smash factor.   Now Ted was the first manager of the Texas Rangers in 1972 but did you know he was also veteran of World War II and Korea?

Corey has learned from Ted's fundamentals and many others as he trains his mind and body to become the best he can be; to rise to the top of his chosen profession. He continues to work on his fundamentals; study his competition and learn new strategies. This is lifelong learning.  And it all started when he  was young.

It does not matter what you end up doing in life; if you are going to be a farmer, welder, teacher or doctor you will want to continue to learn new things; to be the best that you can be.

This first exhibit of the Mobile Museum contains artifacts of soldiers who rose to the top of their profession.  These are the Generals and Admirals of our Armed Forces.

And how did they do this? It started with fundamentals.   To become a General or Admiral requires a lot of training; this can be formal schooling, training,  research, practice and other learning processes.  It is a lifetime of learning.

Some of these Flag Officers as they are sometimes referred,  are Surgeons and Doctors, Engineers, Attorneys, Biologists, Mathematicians, Computer and Technical Specialists, Transportation specialists, History and International Studies specialists as well as Pilots, Sailors, and  Infantrymen.    They have all kinds of jobs and careers.

This exhibit covers over 60 Flag Officers.   Read biographies and much more in this first exhibit.

Artifacts

 Admiral Henry Mauz
 Admiral William Crowe
 BG Charles Fred Smith
 BG DeWitt Armstrong
 BG Frederick Adair Smith
 BG Frederick D. Van Valkenburg
 BG Harvey Reed Fraser
 BG Howard Eggleston
 BG John Stephen Martin
 BG Ned Lee Turnipseed
 BG Richard Holmes Harrison
 BG Robert Donald Stevenson
 BG Thodore Andrews
 BG William Bond
 General Andrew Goodpaster
 General Bruce Holloway
 General David Howell Petraeus
 General John Adams Wickham, Jr
 General John J Pershing
 General Lyman Lemnitzer
 General Mark Clark
 General Maxwell Taylor
 General Omar Bradley
 General Paul Lamar Freeman
 General Peter Pace
 LTG George Sammet
 LTG La Vern E. Weber
 LTG Michael Spigelmire
 LTG Orwin Talbott
 LTG Paul Emrick
 LTG Richard Carey
 LTG Richard Melbourne Scofield
 LTG Ronald Ray Blanck
 LTG Samuel Tankersley Williams
 LTG Stanley Hamer Ford
 MG Albert Shiely
 MG Charles Trueman Lanham
 MG David Warren Gray
 MG James Harry Johnson
 MG James Williams
 MG John Frederick Freund
 MG John Milton Finn
 MG Kenneth Bowra
 MG Ramsay Potts
 MG Robert Bernstein
 MG Theodore Antonelli
 Rear Admiral Frederick Edward Bakutis
 Rear Admiral Oral Ray Swigart
 Rear Admiral Paul Tobin

Content, Objectives

Uniforms, helmets and other artifacts are found in this travelling exhibit.

Students will come to learn about the individuals, where they came from, their educational background, their military specialty.

They will learn the significance of the various ribbons and badges on the uniforms.   They will gain exposure to the different types of uniforms including their material and purpose.

 

 

 

Statistics

Education and Background of Flag Officers

US Military Academy West Point (USMA) - 18

Annapolis Naval Academy - 6

Pilots - 8

Surgeons / Doctors - 1

Medical Degree - 4

Engineering - 8

Physics - 1

Education Degree - 1

Biology - 1

Attorney - 1

Math - 1

Computers / Tech / Communications - 3

Political Science / International Studies - 6

 

Other Stats

Texas Born - 3