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Show . Mormon Battalion Member Learns To Handle Gun "Line 'em up, and squeeze 'em off." Private Barman W. Smith, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Smith of Lewiston, is becoming an expert ex-pert with a heavy U. S. Marine rifle as he practices on a rifle range near San Diego, Calif. With him is Private Ronald Habbeshaw of Salt Lake City. Marine recruits spend three weeks on the rifle range and their coaches are world famed. These young leathernecks are members of the third all-Mormon platoon. Young Smith joined the Marines through the Ogden recruiting office. |