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Show Local National Guard Headquarters Describes I Many Advantages Offered Through Training How Your Unit Tiains Editor's Note: This is the fif'h of a series of articles prepared by the headquarters of the 202nd Field Artillery Battalion In an effort ef-fort to acquaint the residents of this community with the organization, organi-zation, function, and activities of their local National Guard Unit. Each week for a period of two hours you can hear and watch your National Guard unit training train-ing at the armory. The training that is given the men is the same? type of training given to people in the regular Army. The National Na-tional Guard has proven that it knows how to use fine equipment equip-ment and for this reason the Secretary of Defense has provided provid-ed the most modern types for its use. Your local unit, being a headquarters head-quarters type, trains mostly in the following fields: wire, radio, surveying, artillery fire direction, and Army aviation. To assist training in these fields the following fol-lowing type of equipment is used: field telephones, radios' (two-way) mounted in vehicles, transits and related survey equipment, and two-place single wing airplanes. Training by Experience The training is carried on in such a manner as to best show the practical application of equipment and its proper use. In many cases the training received in the National Guard has given men a new perspective which they have been able to adapt to civilian jobs. At the annual sum mer camp guardsmen are given problems to work out and solve in which all their years training is reviewed. During this two-week two-week encampment young men obtain training that will enable them to better perform their jobs. The artillery branch of the Army is the most highly specialized branch in the Army. By this it is meant that each man is specialized spe-cialized in some field or another: whether he is a private or captain, cap-tain, he has one job that he knows better than anyone else. The aim of the guard training is to make sure that the individual individ-ual will always know his particular partic-ular job better than any other. There is an old Army saying that goes like this: "The trained live and the untrained die." We of the National Guard are proud to say that we train men so they can live, not die. Past training and performance of the guard clearly indicates this type of training is carried out. |