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Show Area Guardsmen slate two-week camp at Dugway Proving Grounds The 500 members of the 2nd battalion, 222nd Field Artillery unit of the Utah National Guard from southern Utah will join with 4,800 guardsmen this week as they begin their annual two week summer camp. The 2nd Battalion is headquartered in Cedar City with units in St. George, Beaver, Richfield, Fillmore and Manti. They will undergo a battalion size test as a climax of their stay at Dugway Proving grounds during the first two weeks of June. Advanced parties will leave for the training site Saturday with full membership convoying to Dugway early Sunday morning. Overall Utah troops will be holding camp in six different states as well as traditional sites at Camp W. G. Williams near Lehi and the Dugway Proving grounds, according to Maj. Gen. Maurice L. Watts, Utah Adjutant General. The 1st Battalion, 19th Special Forces Group of Salt Lake City begins a two week mock emergency operation at Camp Williams May 31. The 1st Battalion, 140th Artillery Ar-tillery of Salt Lake will ad minister the test as well as conduct battery level tests to one of Ogden's 1st Battalion 145th Artillery units and three out-of-state units. The 800 construction soldiers of the Guard's 1457th Engineer Battalion will be involved in continuing road, recreation and flood control projects around the state as training concludes in late August. Other Guardsmen will be training in California, Kansas, Wyoming, North Caroline, Texas and West Virginia as part of their two week active duty requirement, Watts stated. |