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Show Largest Guard Unit Wins Army Praise The largest single unit in the Utah National Guard has, paradoxically, para-doxically, won the year's first superior rating from the Sixth U.S. Army, reports Maj. Gen. Maxwell E. Rich, Utah Adjutant General. The paradox is due to the fact that the 144th Evacuation Hospital Hos-pital in Salt Lake City has some 205 officers and men, an un-wieldly un-wieldly number to shape up and draw praise from the Army's tough inspecting officers. The 144th, which in an emergency emer-gency can establish a hospital equal in capacity to Salt Lake's big Latter-day Saints Hospital, won superior ratings on each of the five areas included in the annual armory inspection. TKe areas are training and effectiveness ef-fectiveness of past training; unit administration; supply procedures proce-dures and administration; and maintenance of U.S. property. Only a little more than 15 per cent of Utah's Army Guard units won the coveted superior awards last year when the Army named the Utah Guard the most combat ready in eight western states. General Rich said many other units around the state have been inspected this year, but the 144th is the first to receive a superior rating. Col. Joseph H. Allen commands the 144th Evacuation Hospital. |