PROCLAMATION!  BE IT KNOWN TO ALL TROOPERS WHO PASS THIS WAY AND THRU THIS SCHOOL THAT THE FOLLOWING NAMED PARATROOPERS DID, THROUGH HARD TOIL, UNPRESIDENTED INITIATIVE (SNEAKING, MIDNIGHT REQUISITIONING, AND FAST BARGAINING) AND RANGER KNOW HOW; ESTABLISH ON THE TWENTY EIGHTH DAY OF NOVEMBER, IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY EIGHT, THE 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION RECONDO SCHOOL, THE IDEA OF LT. DONALD BERNSTEIN UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MAJOR GENERAL W. C. WESTMORELAND AND DIRECT SUPERVISION OF MAJOR LEWIS L. MILLETT.

 THE NAMES OF WHICH WILL BE REMEMBERED AND DISCUSSED AMONG MEN OF THE 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION, THE UNITED STATES ARMY, AND THE SUPREME SOVIET COMMAND, UNTIL THE LAST BLAST IS MADE, AND THE LAST RECONDO TURNS IN HIS JUMP BOOTS FOR FEATHERY WINGS.

 BE IT KNOWN BY ALL PAST AND PRESENT THAT THE FOLLOWING RANGER TROOPERS DID, INSTRUCT, LANE GRADE TRAIN, MARCH, RUN, PARA‑DROP, CRITIQUE, CRAWL, CHASE STUDENTS, FIGHT FIRES, SWIM, CLIMB, RAPPELL, AND PATROL IN ALL KINDS OF WEATHER AND TERRAIN SINCE THE CONCEPTION OF THE 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION RECONDO SCHOOL.

MAJOR LEWIS L. MILLETT