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Show The sounds of marching boots, the smell of mess hall food and the feel of being in the Army once again will soon greet some 4,800 Utah National Na-tional Guardsmen as they prepare for their annual two week summer camp. 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 sessions begin May 31 when the 1st Battalion, 19th Special Forces Group of Salt Lake City begins a two week mock insurgency operation at Camp Williams. ARTILLERY units from Smithfield to St. George will be tested in live fire exercises at Dugway. The 500 members of the 2nd Battalion, 222nd Field Artillery from southern and central Utah will undergo a battalion size test as a climax of their stay at Dugway Dug-way during the first two weeks of June. The 1st Battalion, 140th Artillery Ar-tillery of Salt Lake City will administer 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 sol-diers of the Guard's 1457th Engineer Battalion will be involved in-volved in continuing road, recreation and flood control projects around the training conclude, August. uts m lat, Other Guardsmen training, nc.gw. sas. Wyomig Carolina, TexaT, r$ Virginia as rSV i- ek actWe llK,r: requirement. st. |