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Show Mapleton man finishes basic Glade E. Chidester, 17, son of Mrs. Reba Chidester of Route 1, 1410 West 800 North, Mapleton, completed basic training June 12 at the Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, Illinois. The nine-week training includes in-cludes naval orientation, history his-tory and organization, seamanship, seaman-ship, ordnance and gunnery, military drill, first aid and survival. During the training recruits receive tests and interviews which determine their future assignments in the Navy. Upon Up-on completing the program they are assinged to service schools for technical training or to ships and stations for on-the-job training in a Navy rating specialty. Naval training produces the power in seapower by supplying supply-ing qualified personnel to man the ships, planes and shore stations of today's Navy. |