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Show n Special Forces Opens Training At Camp Williams "Operation Wildcat," code name given the annual summer field training of the 19th Special Forces Group, leaped into its initial phase as 211 airborne troops left aircraft exits for a target "drop zone" Sunday evening. even-ing. The 8 p.m. operation was the first of several "drops" planned for some 1,000 Green Beret guardsmen. 0 They are the airborne segment of the group's 1,400 soldiers from Utah, Colorado, Maryland, Montana, Rhode Island, New York and West Virginia- the only re i r i 1 J J srr . sy u LJ u U' i u l-i u-j . m jm I I .4 -; V. I ..jj I oi w ir - M&f? n U J U J cii U c ? Uw! A KJ IKV serb serve guerrilla force in the United States. Maj. Jack Aligns, psychological operations officer of the 19th Special Forces Group, said three Utah National Guard troop carrier car-rier planes were used to transport trans-port the men from the Utah Air National Guard hangers at the Old Salt Lake Airport to the Utah County drop site. ; The shuttle began at 7 p.m. Sunday bringing the force about 1,000 feet above the pinpointed zone. Each craft carries 24 men. Commanding the unconven-timnal unconven-timnal warefare exercise is Col. Dana F. Peck. The ctoud's commander, of Salt Lake City, said training is being conducted in Utah at the invitation of Maj. Gen. Maurice L. Watts, Utah adjutant general. The Special Forces headquarters are in Salt Lake City. The bulk of the practical training train-ing will be conducted at Camp Williams, headquarters for the two-week battle, and in rural areas near Park City, Coalville and Heber City. Their mission is to wage guerilla warfare against a myth-ical myth-ical aggressor force occupying the western United States. ; Regular Army personnel will j assume the role of aggressors. ,: Seven flights-20 minutes apart ; carried the green berets over the 'drop zone. The planes were 'labeled "Lucky One, Two and 1 Three." ) Col. Peck said planes "One 'and Two" make two round-trip "hauls with each flight carrying 35 men. Plane "Three" carried ; 24 of the airborne personnel twice. "Lucky One" also make a third trip carrying 36 men. The planes rose to 6,000 feet above the Terraine during their ;30-minute runs. ; In outlining "Operation Wildcat," Wild-cat," Col. Peck said the troop drops are planned to complement the gr oup' s ob je ctlve of developing develop-ing skills required to accomplish . its mission. He added, ' That mission is to develop, organize, equip, train and direct indigenous forces in the conduct of unconventional warfare." Training includes carrying '' weapons, demolitions, communi-, communi-, cations, medical first aid, air-b air-b o r n e operations, intelligence . and operations, raid and ambush techniques. National Rifle Assn. Warns Against Hysteria The National Rifle Association recently called on Congress to act with caution-not Impulse-in Impulse-in considering demands for additional ad-ditional eun control legislation. Congress has already enacted a pistol control bill that would Drohibit interstate sales ofhand- guns. This legislation is now at the White House, and may become law soon. Now. some members of Con gress are oroDOsinec legislation to prohibit interstate sale of rifles and shoteuns. and to re quire federal registration of all firearms and licensing of fire arms nwnprs. A massive letter writing campaign has been launched to support these moves NRA is now urging its one mil lion members to also write Con gress in oDDOsition to this cam paign and in support of more moderate measures that would leave regulation of long guns In the hands of state and local of ficials. The organization said it has no fear of a dictatorship : seizine reeistration or licensing ! records to seize guns, but that , It does not believe Congress should become too responsive to what it termed the hysteria of the moment. Our founding fathers created a Bill of Rights in order to protect the people against an Impulsive government too responsive re-sponsive to the problems of the moment, and care should be taken at this time in order to override over-ride such safeguards, the as-. as-. sociation. Daniel Boone was a member of an English Quaker familv that -1? Innflnn HP flff - n "x J"" mm 0mm (1 niffll 0 I h (1 UUU IJ U liU vS IHJ Tmi t) 0 i 1 1 STOCK CONTRACTOR CIRCLE G) RODEO COMPANY 1 MS 11 t VJ (fU 7 61 -; 'i. - r'-AV- 2 KENT BAKER, Stockton, Utah Outstanding Rider of 1967 Second in nation in 1967 bull riding finals n 0 0 YJ 4: nmw r .i SPONSORED BY Utah Valley Longhorns Rodeo Club r r'j '.j r'"'-".'. r'"'-".'. i I r. j trv 4 1 p.ir: :.' o o m I 'A r J I r- r . settled in Philadelphia. f iifs a iai a nil v on it snnpn B- Iftfll I unc rnnvib Deer Cabbage is rich in minerals |
