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Show Troops on the Way To Blanding Test Site Some 2-13 troops left Ft. Sill, on the 9o0-mile road march to the Black Mesa, near Bland-ir.it, Bland-ir.it, Utah, for the spring Pershing missile finitts. Tho unit, from the 2nd Battalion, Bat-talion, 4!:h Artillery, will provide pro-vide support for the annual Pershing missile units from the Seventh U.S. Army in Europe and the Federal Republic Re-public of Gormany Air Force. During the next four months, 12 missiles will be fired. Four will be fired by the German Air Force units and eiht by Seventh Army-units. Army-units. Tie missih's will be programmed to impact on White Sands Missile Range some 4"0 miles southeast. White Sands personnel w 11 provide range instrumentation instrumenta-tion and safety support. The Ft. Sill convoy will consist of 115 vehicles with overnight stops scheduled Jit Clevis and Albuqih rque, N.M. Tho convey is due to arrive at the Bland a;g area campsite camp-site around 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 1. Troo.ps will join an advanced party that flew to Blanding March 23 and a small contingent of tnxps who maintained the camp since complet on of the fall firing series Tho Ft S;dl nxps will return re-turn home in mid-July and then return to Utah for the firings scheduled in the fall. Camp commander for the spring firings is Major William Wil-liam Gahm, battalion deputy commander. Lieutenant Colonel Colon-el Hal C. Bennett Jr., is battalion bat-talion commador. |