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Show National Guardsmen WindUpAnnal Summer Camp Events Over 350 officers and men of the 2nd Howitzer Battalion, 222nd Artillery of the Utah National Guard, were winding up their two week encampment this week with battery tests in the field. The southern Utah unit with batteries in Cedar City.Fillmore, St. George, Beaver and Richfield, spent the entire first week of camp In the field preparing for the battery tests which were administered ad-ministered Friday and the early part of the second week of the encampment at Camp Williams near Salt Lake City. Friday the units returned to Camp Williams to participate In Governor's Day activities and a special retreat parade. Saturday the unit stood Inspection then was released over the week end with just limited activity. Early this week the units again went back into the field to complete tests on their newly acquired eight-inch, self-propelled howitzers, returning each evening to Camp Williams. The unit will not be officially tested on their firing since they have been assigned the new eight-inch howitzers only recently. re-cently. Previously they had fired fir-ed the 155 mm howitzers, a towed tow-ed gun. While each individual battery was undergoing actual firing tests other units were performing perform-ing "dry run" firing to better familiarize themselves with the weapons, according to Lt Col. Max Dalley, commander of the battalion. The two-week encampment will be wrapped up Saturday when a final retreat will be held. The unit is scheduled to convoy back to their Individual communities Sunday. |