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Show I " ;;;.";'; I'll;?1'1" rtf.,.::. x 'y Vhiii','l,i ' kh Wk7 Jrsk v-tv i '";" t ' ,J T ,. tr- .:'v1-ir;' GUARDSMEN TEST NEW GUNS. Members of B Battery of the Southern South-ern Utah National Guard unit cur- rently in training at Camp W. G. Williams. Wil-liams. Team is preparing for artillery firing test. Nat; (Guardsmen perform well Although having trained for just a few weeks on new weapons, members of the 2nd battalion 222nd Artillery headquartered in Cedar City performed "Trf ' a"rt excellent manner during live fire Army Training Tests according to a National Guard General. Brigadier General Frank J. Dalley of Cedar City, Commanding Com-manding General of the . Guard's XI corps artillery ! made the evaluation after th? battalion completed its 28 hour test at the Dugway Proving Prov-ing Grounds artillery firing range last week. Lt. Col. Eugene Woolf, Com- ! pons. Woolf said just a few men had any experience with the new cannons prior to their arrival last April. He called , the men's performance at Dugway, "exceptional under adverse conditions." i Batteries of the unit are stationed in Cedar City, St. George, Beaver, Fillmore, manding Officer of the battal- ion noted that the unit had just recently converted from 8 inch self propelled howitzers to 155 millimeter towed wea- Richfield, and Manti. More than 400 of the Southern Utah cannoneers are participating in the annual two week summer sum-mer encampment. |