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Show Cedar Soldier Wins Para-Troopers Wings Fort Benning, Ca. Pvt. George R. Short, son of Mrs. Vllo Short of Cedar City, has completed the Basic Airborne course with the Airborne Battalion, Student Training Regiment, at the Infantry In-fantry School, Fort Benning, Ga. He was presented with the coveted cov-eted silver wings of a qualified para-trooper at the impressive ceremony of Basic Class No. 8, November 23. During his five weeks of strenuous stren-uous training at Fort Benning he learned the techniques and principles of parachute jumping and landing. In this period he also made five supervised Jumps from a plane in flight at altitudes of 1000 and 1200 feet, one of which was with complete combat equipment. |