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Show Marine takes combat course Marine Private Roy B. Dev- enish, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Devenish of 624 E. Second N., Springville, has completed inidividual combat training. The four-week course included includ-ed over 200 hours of instruction instruc-tion under simulated combat conditions, covering squad tactics, tac-tics, guerrilla warfare, day and night combat, patrolling and the use of infantry weapons. His next stop is four weeks of basic specialist training in his military occupational field. Marines to be assigned to infantry in-fantry units will be taught infantry in-fantry sub-specialities, such as the machine gun, grenade launcher, rifle or mortar. Marines Ma-rines to be assigned to highly technical specialties will be sent to military schools for their specialist training. Leathernecks bound for the Pacific will receive more training train-ing when they report to the Staging Battalion at Camp Pendleton, Calif. This training will emphasize jungle warfare, patrolling, and civic action based on experience gained in Vietnam. |
