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Show rfi mm AT GUERNSEY, WYOMING. Cedar City National Guardsmen at forward observation point include, left to right: SFC Clark Bohn, 1st Lt. David Moss and Spec. 4 Edward Nelson. Unit will complete two weeks of training at the Wyoming site this week. Guardsmen train in Wyoming Cedar's National Guardsmen are in eastern Wyoming for artillery training. Headquarters Battery, 2nd Battalion of the 222 Artillery, commanded by Capt. Robert G. Miller is at Camp Guernsey, Wyoming on the banks of the North Piatt River. The first week the Cedar Guardsmen was spent coordinating coor-dinating the firing of the other batteries from St. George, Richfield, Rich-field, Beaver, Manti and Fillmore. This week they are firing their own 155mm Howitzers. Howit-zers. Since the unit is not being tested for accuracy this year some of the men will be trading jobs to get additional experience. For example the forward observers ob-servers may work on the guns while the gun crew goes to the observation point. According to 1st Sgt. Kent A. Bishop, the Cedar Battery which usually trains at Dugway, Utah is out of the state for the first time since the Cuban crisis of 1960. Cedar's main headquarters at Camp Guernsey is only 30 miles from the Nebraska border. Guernsey was built in 1939 as a WPA project. |