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Show I Guardsmen Practice Artillery Training At Camp Williams Utah National Guard artillery units are spending their final week of summer encampment participating in service practice with the huge eight-inch howitzers howit-zers and 155 mm. guns. , Among participating troops are Guardsmen from 17 Utah cities, including Ft. Douglas and Salt Lake City. The XI Corps Artillery Artil-lery is headquartered in Salt Lake City Armory. Encampment for all units of the XI Corps Artillery began June 15 and will wind up June 29. The field training for elements ele-ments of the 115th Engineer Group began June 8 and ran through June 22. Half of the special troop units attended the training during each of the two camp sessions. During their first week of training artillery units went through a comprehensive sched- ule of training in basic combat subjects. These are subjects they have studied at armory drills during the past year and the training was climaxed with examinations ex-aminations during the summer field training. Basic combat subjects include such areas as explosives and demolitions, rigging, map reading, read-ing, small unit tactics, drill ceremonies cere-monies and parade, techniques of fire, individual day and night training, land mine warfare, and others. Artillery units moved to the camp's vast gunnery ranges for their final week of training, which utilized both dry runs and actual firing with live ammunition. ammuni-tion. Three of the four artillery battalions are equipped with the eight-inch self propelled howit- zer and the fourth is equipped with the 155 mm. self propelled gun. The XI Corps Artillery is made up of two groups, the 222, with headquarters in Ogden, and the 145th, with headquarters in Provo, and a separate battalion, 1 the 653rd Field Artillery' Observation Obser-vation Battalion located at Fort Douglas. The northern Utah group is made up of two battalions, the 204th with units at Smithfield, Logan, Brigharri City and Garland, Gar-land, and the 222nd with elements ele-ments at Ogden and Layton. The two battalions of the southern Utah group are the 145th, with elements at Provo, Mt. Pleasant, Spanish Forg, Nephi and Manti, and the 213th with elements at Cedar City, Richfield, Fillmore, St. George and Beaver. The Guard engineer units also spent their first week in basic combat subjects. Most of these units moved "to the hills" for their final week of encampment, where they combined the training train-ing with a highly useful road project, the Brighton, Midway road, and roads in Wheeler and American Fork Canyons. The encampment was highlighted high-lighted by visits from a number of civilian and military dignitaries. digni-taries. These included members of the Guard honorary Colonels Advisory Corps, the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce and several sev-eral civic clubs. Several high ranking generals from Headquarters, Sixth U. S. Army, Presidio of San Francisco inspected the field training of the National Guard units. These included Lt. Gen. C. D. Palmer, Jr., Commanding General; Maj. Gen. John M. Binns, Chief of i Staff, and Maj. Gen. Robert L. I Howze, Jr., deputy commanding I general. . Mr. Allen: "Give me the most important facts about nitrates." Kent Johnson: "They're cheaper cheap-er than day rates." |