OCR Text |
Show Guardsmen To Get Training All units of the Utah National Nation-al Guard's XI Corps Artillery, including in-cluding Hq. and Hq. Battery of the 213th Field Artillery Battalion Battal-ion In Cedar City, will embark on Sunday, June 13 for Camp W. G. Williams in the Jordan Narrows, Nar-rows, to undergo two weeks of summer field training. Ten largo semitrailer van loads of ammunition have been moved into tlie camp area for use in the artillery training. The Guard's 10."S summer field training has been dhided Into two separate two week sessions. Attending the early encampment which began last Sunday are units of the 115th Engineer Group, along with Headquarters, Utah National Guard, the 23rd Army Band and the 3659th Ordnance Ord-nance Company. Engineer units were scheduled to attend the Ciriy encampment to do repair and maintenance work on the camp's road network net-work and prepare certain training train-ing areas for the artillery and other units which will arrive on Sunday. Communities represented by the XI Corps which will begin training June 15 Include Salt Lake City, Provo, Mt. Pleasant, Spanish Fork, Nephl, ManM, Richfield, Cedar City, St. George, Fillmore, Beaver, Ogden, Loan, Brlgham City, Garland, Smith-field Smith-field and Lryton. Much of the summer training for artillery units will consist -f firing various weapons on the camp's gunnery ranges. Throe cf the four artillery battalions. In-eluding In-eluding the 213th of southern Utah, are equipped with right-inch right-inch self-propelled howitzer.,, capable of firing atomic projectiles. projec-tiles. The Utah N. G. has recently received more than $3 million worth of new eight-Inch self-propelled self-propelled howitzers which incorporate incor-porate the latest developments in atomic weapons. These will replace re-place existing eight-inch howitzers howit-zers In guard units, and will be distributed sometime after summer sum-mer camp, as soon as necessary servicing has been accomplished. In addition to units of the ; 213th Field Artillery other units to receive the new howitzers will be the J45th with headquarters In Provo, the 222nd Field Artil-i Artil-i lory Battalion with headquarters in Ogden. |