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Show ROLLO-GLYPHICS By Klien Roilo sometimes hard to identify , with SUSC (Southern Utah State College). It's the same institution but the initials have a way of dating you. i i i Cedar City where the bulk of the unit boarded for the trip to the northwest. Members from Richfield and Manti traveled to Salt Lake City where they boarded commercial airlines., However, five of the Cl30's will be used on Sunday, June 19 to return the iflen and those from Richfield Rich-field will return via Cedar City to their homes following the training. To give you an idea of the interaction of the National Guard units the four Cl30's came from a variety of places. One was dispatched from St. Louis, Mo., a second came from Cheyenne, Wyo. and the other two came from the Alaska Air National Guard unit. Seems that the biggest hangup in the entire operation was the bus transportation for members of the St. George unit to Cedar City. They arrived over an hour and a half behind schedule due to a mix up in that timing. It should be an interesting two weeks of training for the National Guardsmen. Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. That statement really struck home with me Sunday as I went to the Municipal Airport to watch members of the national guard unit from Cedar City prepare for an airlift to Ft. Lewis, Wash, for their annual two-weeks training encampment. What really brought the statement home was when Edie Esplin cornered me and asked "who wrote that story about the guard in last week's Record." My response was I did. Then she went on to explain ex-plain to me that her husband had gotten quite a chuckle out of the story. I had referred to the firing units of the Artillery Battalion as "Able, Baker and Charlie." According to Edie her husband, Capt. John Esplin, who commands the Headquarters and Headquarters Battery located in Cedar City told her that "they haven't used that terminology since World War II." . It "Seems , that the identifying iden-tifying terms are now Alpha and Bravo, rather than Able and Baker. Terms and titles have a way of coming back to haunt you. The use of Able and Baker dates me not back to World War II. but it does date me back to the Korean Conflict. It's like being a graduate of BAC (Branch Agricultural College). It's T 1 r Jim Hoyle was one of the many residents of the area who turned out to watch the two large Cl30's take the 300 plus men aboard and begin the three and onehalf hour flight to Ft. Lewis. For Jim, who was an officer with the 213th, the unit called into active duty from Southern Utah during the Korean Conflect, it was a time of reminiscing. I believe that Jim was one of the last to leave the airport as the last of the four planes ascended skyward. There was a good crowd on hand-mostly hand-mostly friends and familya few of the old timers and a lot of just plain interested residents. The logistics of transporting tran-sporting an entire Artillery Battalion becomes somewhat of an awesome thing, when you think about it. The unit, made up of some 500 officers and men separated by over 250 miles-from miles-from St. George to Manti-represent Manti-represent a varied background of experience and expertise. In order to facilitate the airlift to Ft. Lewis four of the C130 transports from the Air National Guard were put into service and brought to |