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Show Utah Guard Holds Operation Fallout Utah National Guardsmen, civil defense officials, highway patrolmen and other state agencies agen-cies joined forces Saturday for a day-long defense exercise. The agencies tested Utah's recovery re-covery efforts during simulated nuclear detonations on Mountain Home AF Base, Las Vegas, and Elko, Nevada. They considered wind currents, cur-rents, warning systems, fallout shelters and evacuation problems, prob-lems, among other matters. The exercise, "Operation Fallout," Fall-out," tested a new state-wide communication net installed last summer by the Utah National Guard and determined how well the various agencies could work as one big defense team, said Maj. Gen. Maxwell E. Rich, Utah Adjutant General. Each Guardeman had a jot Saturday as each unit performed specific tasks during the test, Jackling Hall, the main armory in Salt Lake City and Camp W. G. Williams, summer camp site for the citizen-soldiers, served as headquarters for the big test. "We sought for realism on all phases of the exercise," Gen. Rich said, so that we could gain the maximum information and training and find out where we need to improve." Since this was the first combined com-bined defense effort of its kind in the state much valuable information in-formation was gained for future training of civil defense and National Na-tional Guard personnel. Jeep posses, highway patrol men and civil defense aides whe have taken survival and defense courses at Camp Williams during the past year had ample oppor tunity during the exercise to put into practice what they hac learned. |