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Show Utah Guard to Form School for Non-Coms Formation of a Utah-wide National Guard non-commissioned officers school at Camp W. G. Williams was announced this week by Maj. Gen. Maxwell E. Rich, Utah Adiutant General. The courses will be held every other month at the Utah National Na-tional Guard campsite in Jordan Narrows with the one that will run from Sept. 28 to Sept. 30, Gen. Rich noted. Some 50 NCOs and potential NCOs from the enlisted men's ranks will take the three-day courses which will stress leadership, leader-ship, the acepting of responsibility, responsibil-ity, and other subjects the NCOs must be well versed in, the general gen-eral added. ' The academy will be under the direction of Lt. Col. Dana F. Peck, Tooele, who is also commandant com-mandant of the Utah National Guard's Officer Candidate School. "We hope to familiarize our NCO's with some of the important impor-tant roles they play in the Utah National Guard and also thoroughly thor-oughly brief those men who hope to become NCOs," General Rich said in making the announcement. announce-ment. "Eventually, we hope to make the NCO ecademy, a required course before a soldier can join the NCO rangs," he added. There has been an NCO school in operation for some three years by Utah National Guard's Artillery, in the Loean arpa. Ideas from this school arid from the National Guard Officer Candidate Can-didate School program will be combined for the formation of the NCO program. "We expect to have every class filled to capacity every v time they meet," General Rich said in conclusion. |