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Show Utah Guardsmen Will Leave for Camp Sunday Utah National Guardsmen, 3,200 strong, will set aside their full-time full-time duties as bread-winners, students, stu-dents, and members of communities commun-ities throughout the state to assume as-sume their roles as "citizen-soldiers" beginning .Sunday (June 5) at Camp W. G. Williams, Utah. The Guardsmen will take their annual active duty encampment at the sprawling Jordan- Narrows training center from June 5 thru 19. They will leave some 25 Bee- hive State armories frorn Logan, to St. George late Saturday and early Sunday by military motor convoy. Emphasis of the Utah Army Guard's largest summer encampment encamp-ment will be on heavily-armored and highly- mobile modern warfare. war-fare. All artillery firing units now are equipped with self-propelled eight-inch Howitzers and 155 mm. "Long Toms," adding realism to the training concept, according to Brig. Gen. Maxwell E. Rich, Utah adjutant general. Engineer units of the Guard plan to hack a combat road thru the rugged Wasatch Mountains between Brighton and Midway, Wasatch County, during the second sec-ond week of the encampment. A highlight of the camp June 10 Will be traditional Governor's Day, which will be punctuated with a fire power demonstration of artillery, engineer demolitions and Utah Air National Guard Sabrejets. Civic and business dig-, nitaries and friends and relatives of Guardsmen will be. invited to the demonstration and retreat parade-review to follows. |