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Show Army Ski Troop Plans Include Soldiers From Utah and Idaho Soldiers from Utah, Idaho, and other intermountain states will have an opportunity this winter to test their traveling and fighting fight-ing skill or develop it on skis and snowshoes. An announcement from the war department Monday said skis and sowshoe equipment costing $82-691 $82-691 had been purchased for the prime purpose of testing "the ability of one or more battalions to carry out maneuvers in deep snow." Fort Lewis, Wash., where Utah and Idaho soldiers will be trained and where national guardsmen from the intermountain area are mobilized, has been designated as one of the training camps for the winter program. The Third and Forty-First divisions will be centered cen-tered there. Further aim of the new program, pro-gram, the war department said will be to give "more advanced training to small groups of selected select-ed individuals organized into patrol pa-trol units for the purpose of operating oper-ating for sustained periods of time under all weather conditions and on all types of terrain." Instruction will be given primarily pri-marily by qualified regular army officers and by expert skiers of the national guard and organized reserve. |