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Show 4f' ''J ACROSS THE WORLD vC 25 fZF: With The L Southern Utah Federalized J l'jj NATIONAL GUARD 1 f .XZT '' . BY KLIEN ROLLO "Out of the Frying Pan - Into the Fire" 213th Faces Stiff Inspections After Battles Somewhere in Korea, June 20. A few days ago we moved into in-to a new area, out of range of the enemy, and in a spot where we hopefully expected to find peace and comparative quiet for a few days at least. Instead, we jumped right into the rigors of preparing for an inspection by top army officials, and we have all agreed that there is Just nothing noth-ing like the army. We left the mud, sweat and grime of long weeks of front line combat. Weeks in which we had very little time for sleep and rest, and when it seemed like every move we made was accompanied accom-panied by a heavy downpour of rain with its resultant mud. After Af-ter dragging our equipment and trucks around over the bogged down Korean roads, it was no easy task to get things cleaned up for inspection. On top of everything this was the toughest inspection we have ever been through. Now we are going to have another inspection and as a result we have been cleaning, cleaning, cleaning, and we hope things go well tomorrow, tomor-row, because if they don't well, we know the army. Just as an example, I spent the day literally bathing my Jeep In gasoline, washing the motor, the wheels, the body, inside and out, washing underneath, on top and everywhere, even under the fenders. fen-ders. If they can find any dirt on it now, gues I won't get any week end passes for awhile. And practically every guy In the outfit out-fit has been doing the same thing to all kinds of army equip-ment, equip-ment, and we should "shine" to- morrow. We have been lucky the past week insofar as the weather is concerned, just a few little sprinkles sprin-kles for the whole week, although al-though it has been cloudy a lot of the time. When the sun shines it really shines, and many of the fellows are nursing sore, sunburned sun-burned backs from working without their shirts on. One thing that should be of interest is the fact that 12 men left our battalion recently to return re-turn to the good old United States. This was not the start of rotation for the 213th. All of the men returning home were Enlisted En-listed Reserves, the ones with the highest points based on the number num-ber of years in servicce, age, dependents, de-pendents, and so on. Four of the men were from Headquarters battery from Cedar City, but were not Cedar City men. About the only one that Cedar people would know was Cannon Parkinson, Park-inson, former University of Utah football great. One regular National Guird man also started on his way home, because his enlistment, plus a year's extension, is up th.s month. Now we are all checking our enlistment dates, and for many of us it will be a close race between enlistment, plus a year's extension, and the end of that 21-month period for which we were federalized. One good break that has come our way since moving Into this area Is the fact that we have had a chance to see some good motion mo-tion pictures. They seem mighty good to us, and we have all enjoyed them. |
