Donald Hooper Long

Donald Hooper, after intensive training in infantry drill nad on coast defense guns, enlisted in the Coast Artillery of the Regular Army. He served in the Panama Canal Zone at Fort Amador (Grant), assigned to the Eighth Company Regular Army. After further drilling in infantry, coast guns, mine laying, trench construction and gas mask drills, he was acting Casemate Electrician. He attended Electrical school at Fort Amador and then transferred to the electrical school of enlisted specialists at Fort Monroe, VA. He achieved the rank of electrician Sergeant First Class and was assigned as a unattached NCO Staff Officer.