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Show Fort Benning Trains Rangers Guerrillas Are Taught Old Frontier Tactics INFANTRYMEN call Fort Benning mother of the army. But when the "mad minute" is staged at Benning, "mother" becomes a thing of fury and flame. . Grimy and resolute, high-booted paratroopers, G. I. riflemen, lieutenants lieu-tenants and captains learning how to take an enemy hill inch forward under barbed wire in red Georgia clay. Every howitzer, tank, mortar, machine gun, flame thrower and bazooka on the range roars into rapid fire at the same time. The "mad minute" is the thundering climax of the training of U. S. fighting fight-ing men at the Army's famed infantry in-fantry school at Fort Benning. United Nations commanders look to pine-covered Georgia hills for trained guerrillas who can creep behind be-hind enemy lines to spread panic, sabotage and death. Fort Benning is now the home of an army branch with a venerated name the Rangers. Tough volunteers for crack Ranger Rang-er companies are relearning an old American specialty frontier fighting. Chief of Staff Gen'. J. Law-ton Law-ton Collins has described their training train-ing as a throwback to oldtime tactics tac-tics used by Indian fighters. |