Show local guardsmen guardsman Guards men return sunday sund ay from camp utah national guard engl engi neer units wound up their 1958 sui niner encampment sunday morning after an in two weeks of field training at camp williams near salt lake and at mountain road construction projects among participating guardsmen guardsman Guards men were members of company A engineer battalion from vernal lt nelson J marshall commanding officer ol of company A directed training of his unit encampment for all units of the engineer group began june 8 and continued through june 22 artillery units unit of the utah guard began their field training june IS 15 and will continue through june 29 half of the special troops units have been in training during each of the two camp sessions lons during their first week of Arain training izig guard engineers went through a comprehensive schedule of training in basic combat subjects subject these included such areas as ex plosives plo and demolitions rigging map reading small unit tactics drill ceremonies and parade technique of fire individual day and night train ing land mine warfare field fortifications and others most of the engineer units moved to the hills or the second week of 0 encampment v where here they combined their training with highly useful road construction projects each of the three engineer battalions worked on a ate project the brighton mid way road and in wheeler and american fork canyons the road work was climax ed with governors day cere monies at bonanza flat june 21 when gov george D clyde cut a ribbon opening tile the new brighton midway road tile the encampment was high lighted by fihs from a number of civilian and military dignitaries these included members of the guards honorary colonels advisory corps the salt lake chamber of commerce and several civic clubs several high ranking genitals genei genet als from headquarters sixth US U S army presidio dlo of san francisco inspected the field training of utah national guard units uniti these included lt gen C D palmer jr commanding general maj gen john M chief of staff and maj gen robert L jr deputy commanding general the ilia mountain road work between brighton BrIg iton slid and midway hax has occupied unit of tile the 13 engineer battalion fro mAurray from murray and vernal the set up bivouac tile the post past week at bonanza flat about 40 miles east of salt lake city to work on oil the scenic road they finished a portion of fie road which has fins been under construction thi the past two su summer intner bamps tamps but was delayed by heavy snows which were still covering tile the area units aniu of the olt engineer bati battalion allon front from ft douglas bountiful and tooele thoele set up their in ogden can yon yen they have worked the past ast week on the road which links laks ilia th ogden canyon highway with the Og denow hasin basin road elements of tile the hinr battalion from american roue fehlo ahl provo brov frad price tt et tip in the east folk of american Amerl cah fork canyon they have done bome initial construction ome bome road widening and other work on the road which links the east fork with midway wasatch county the engineer group alto alio in eludes three separate compa riles the dump truck company from american fork the light equipment company from spring ville and the panel dridge bridge company from cleber the dump truck unit assisted on the brighton midway road the light equipment coin company panY was divided and ele elements menta AS signed to each of the three projects and the panel bridge com company parly stayed in the camp williams military reservation atlon the entire two weeks of its field training where they bivouac ed and built bridges |