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Show National Guard News After a lengthy summer vacation, members of the Utah National Guard throughout the state will again begin training as citizen soldiers under the Utah Guard's recent re -organization to the pen-tomic pen-tomic concept of warfare, it was announced by Maj. Gen Maxwell E. Rich, Utah Adjutant General. Following the Guard's annual two-week summer encampment, held last June, most of the state's 78 units took a break from weekly armory training drills. However, during August and through Sept. the units will resume training excerises under the new pentomic concept, Gen. Rich pointed out. The re-organization program is now complete, he continued. Under the new program the Utah National Guard has been allotted a . maximum strength of 4,368 enlisted men and officers. As of now it appears that most units in the state will resume training operations this year at full strength quota. However, the National Guard Bureau has indicated that the Utah National Guard may be allotted additional manpower therefore creating spaces for additional enlistees. en-listees. One phase of the new re-organization program was the establishment estab-lishment of 32 special forces intelligence units. The re-organization also presents a new. numbering system among the state's units: The 653rd Field Observation Battalion becomes the 1st Observation Battalion, 140th Artillery. The 213th FA Bn is now the 1st Howitzer Bn (155mm), 145th Artillery; the 145th FA Bn is now the 2nd Howitzer Bn (8") (SP), 145 th Artillery. The 222nd and 204th FA Bns. become the 1st and 2nd Howitzer Bn. (8") (SP) respectfully. Special troops and engineer unit designations are unchanged. |