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Show TEST KIN, Dugway Proving Ground, Friday, March Ft. Gordon Has 'Vietnamese Village9 1 1, 1966 For Realistic Guerrilla Training RAID ON HAMLET - Pvt. John D. Tomasquewdd quints for ward as soldiers raid the mock hamlet of Vinh Hoa, a suspected "Viet Cong" stronghold. During a week-lon- g field training problem, the soldiers learn to execute day and night attacks, and if captured, how to' evade the captors questions. SEARCHING SUSPECT - A soldier searches a Viet Cong huts in the simulated Vietnamese hamlet of Vinh Hoa. ARMY NEWS under one of five suspect flushed out of a tunnel concealed Army Fkim by SFC Jmme W. Siubbr PHOTO FEATURES LOW DOWN - Viet Cong suspects are kept under heavy guard fallowing a raid of their hamlet by trainees at Ft. Cordon. The VCs - soldiers who have completed their training and are awaiting assignment - add to the realism of the week-lontraining period for new soldiers. g rUHT GORDON, GA. (ANF) - Soldiers taking advanced individual training at Fort Gordon, Ca., are learning that simple weapons, such as a nail and piece of wood buried in a rice paddy, can be a threat to world freedom. The peculiarities and dangers of jungle warfare encountered in Vietnam are emphasized in an expanded AIT program being conducted at the Georgia post. The beefed-uprogram - recently increased from eight to nine weeks - winds up with a week-lon- g field problem simulating combat conditions in Vietnam. To lend realism to the training, the Third Training Brigade at Fort Cordon constructed a Vietnamese hamlet in a remote swampy area of the post. Here, trainees learn to live off the land, cook rice, use demolitions and execute night attacks, raids and search and destroy missions. The training is aimed at giving every soldier the knowledge and rkilli necessary for success and survival in the jungle battlefield. The expanded training is also being given at Fort Polk, La.1 p full-scal- e ewer a Viet Cong suspect as he leaves a Montagna rd house in mock Vietnamese hamlet of Vinh Hoa. Wives of instructors at the Third Training COVERED-Soldi- en the Brigade, Ft. Gordon, wove grass rugs and made day cooking pots, while the children helped to build the hamlet's huts and carved punji stakes from bamboo. For added realism, chickens were turned loose to wander through the village. DESERTED - Soldiers pass by a deserted Vietnamese hamlet during a search and destroy training mission. Trainees at Ft. Gordon also learn to set up and patrol a perimeter defense, ferret out enemy booby traps and retaliate with their own, and to conduct night attacks. Get away from it all jL Seven Tenths of a Second . This is a split second reconstruction of what and a car driver a to when, traveling at 55 miles an Happens hour, it crashes into a solid, immovable tree. the front bumper and chrome frost110 of a second: slivers of steel penetrate the ing" of the grillwork collapse; inches or more. and half a of one to a tree depth the hood crumples as it rises, smash210 of a second: ing into the windshield; - spinning rear wheels leave the ground; the fenders come into contact the grillwork disintegrates; with the tree, forcing the rear parts to spray out over the front doors. In the same second tenth of a second, the heavy structural members of the car begin' to act as a brake on the terrific forbut the drivers body ward momentum of the 2 Vi ton body; continues to move forward at the vehicles original speed of 55 mph. (This means a force of 20 times gravity; his body weighs 3200 pounds.) His legs, ramrod straight, snap at the knee joints. The driver's body is now off the seat, 310 of a second: torso upright, broken knees pressing against the dashboard; -the plastic and steel frame of the steering wheel begins to bend his head is now near the sun viunder his terrible death grip; sor, his chest above the steering column. 410 of a second: the cars front 24 inches have been comstill traveling at an estipletely demolished, but the rear end is driver's the 35 of body is still moving at mph; mated speed the rear motor block crunches into the tree; the half-to- n 55; of the car, like a bucking horse, rises high enough to scrape bark off low branches. hands bend the drivers 510 of a second: the force vertical almost an into column position; the steering jagged of gravity impales him on the steering wheel shaft; blood spurts into punctures lung and intercostal arteries; his lungs. so great is the force of the impact 610 of a second: that the driver's feet are ripped from his tightly laced shoes; -tchassis bends he brake pedal shears off at the floor boards; the head smashes the drivers in the middle, shearing body bolts; into the windshield; - the rear of the car begins its downward fall, spinning wheels digging into the ground. 710 of a second: the entire writhing body of the car is doors spring open; in hinges tear; forced out of shape; one last convulsion the seat rams forward pinning the driver destruction, of a gainst the cruel steel of the steering shaft; driver and vehicle is complete and final. . . TENTHS OF A SECOND. Time elapsed-SEVE- N slow-motio- - - - - - - CONG ROUND UP - Conical hats are the mask of Viet Cong suspects rounded up for questioning by soldiers during a simulated search and destroy mission in the mock hamlet of Vinh Hoa. The hamlet was constructed by instructors' of the Third Training Briobsergade at Ft. Cordon. It consists of five grass and straw huts, a vation tower, and a well. There is even a swing for the village chief. The one-acr- e area is surrounded by a spiked fence and a defense perimeter studded with punji stakes. d V Get an HFC Traveloan - Need a change of scene? Get it ! A Traveloan from Household Finance will pay for the whole package: transportation, lodging, food, entertainment, clothes, sports equipment, even a cash reserve. Repay HFC when you return. Over 150,000 servicemen a year borrow with confidence from Household Finance. 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