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Show Utah Guardsmen To Train at Fort Ord, Calif. More than half the members of the 144th Evacuation Hospital, Utah National Guard, will train side by side this summer with regular personnel in the U. S. Army Hospital at Fort Ord, Cal., said Maj. Gen. Maxwell E. Rich, Utah Adjutant General. Eighty:seven enlisted men, six officer candidate cadets and several sev-eral officers of the Salt Lake City unit will train at Fort Ord for two weeks. Col. Joseph H. .Allen, commander com-mander of the 144th, said on the job training will coincide with summer encampment and field training for other units of the Guard. His unit will leave Salt Lake June 6 and return June 21. The Utah Guardsmen will work with active duty soldiers in similar jims. For instance, the first sergeant of the 144th will work with the first sergeant of an active hospital, and surgical assistants will work with Fort Ord assistants. During the first week they will observe the hospital work, and during the second week Utah Guardsmen will actually assist in the work. The 144th Evacuation Hospital will also confer with the Regular Regu-lar Army's 12th Evacuation Hospital Hos-pital attached to the U. S. Army Hospital. The men who will train at Fort Ord will make up much of the 144th's surgical and medical sections. sec-tions. Fifteen men will remain with artillery units of the National Na-tional Guard during summer encampment en-campment at Camp W. G. Williams. |