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Show Air Force Aces To Help Mark Guard Muster Day One of the greatest performing groups in the U.S. Armed Forces will be brought to Utah to help the Utah National Guard celebrate cele-brate its annual Muster Day on February 20. Utah's adjutant general, Maj. Gen. Maxwell E. Rich, said that the Thunderbirds, an Air Force team which specializes in precision pre-cision flying in high speed jet fighters, will perform at the Air National Guard's Salt Lake Base near the Salt Lake Municipal Airport. The Guard will replace its traditional tra-ditional downtown parade with a retreat parade at the airbase. Some 2,000 Army and Air Guardsmen from Salt Lake City will take the Muster Oath, reaffirming re-affirming their allegiance as citizen citi-zen soldiers. Following the retreat parade, the famed aerobatic group will stage its briliant precision flying routine over the air base. In the mean time Guardsmen in 27 other communiities will be presenting parades and military! demonstrations and reaffirming j . m 11 v J m I concept oi me iaiionai uuara as voiced by George Washington one of America's great Guardsmen. Guards-men. "Every citizen who enjoys the protection of a free government owes not only a portion of his property but even of his personal per-sonal service to the defense of it," Gen. Washington said. It is partly to honor Washington Washing-ton that the tUah Guard originated origi-nated Muster Day. It started in 1955 as a statewide "Operation Safeguard" to point out the advantages ad-vantages of membership in the Army and Air National Guard. The program was so successful that the National Guard Bureau adopted it, and Muster Day has become a national observance each February. The citizen soldiers also will present Muster Day Military balls in many home town armories, armo-ries, along with armory open houses and the Miss Utah National Na-tional Guard Pageant. |
