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milBPAT. jWttLlI 30th Division NG Encamps In Hoke County Afilitary life Hasn’t Changed Much Git Relax At Dusk After Tough Day Of Training With Tanks, Infantry ♦ ♦ * * * * * ♦ ♦ ♦ * * ♦ * * ♦ ¥ k k *k. •k -k ♦ •k •k -k ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ Ik ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Jf ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Ik tk ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Jf ♦ Staff Gets Straight Before Seeing The Old Man MOlury liie hasn't dunged ntj imdi, even in dlls mowrn age of ^ecemien and missllea. The youngsters still use tfie same four-lener words to show how tou^ they are. e. g. “pass die •——mashed potatoes." The oldsters h^ Into the medcal tent for a foot soak. The First Soldier is still a dangerous man to tangle with. And the chaplain’s tent Is located in die pines for those who wish to get dieir T. S. card punched. The Battalion staff still likes toholdlts own in formal meeting and iron out u many problems as possible before going in to see the Old Man. The dust still hangs heavy over die training areas and the barrels of .50 caliber machineguns still get overheated and occasionally bum theCIs who try to change them. Then, when the sun goes down, and that substan tial Army chow has all been put away, there are diversions of one kind or another. There are movies everv night in the recreational area. There is voUeybaU and ping-pong and a lot of (tody games. What don’t they get. they don’t getdamesl Some of the troops try. of course. Tliey tipiM out of the boondocks and head into Raeford and Southern Pines and Aberdeen where they may be- seen forlornly wandering up and down dm Main. Street looUng for actlan. Once in a while. d|[|y, might even fto it. This is what Army life is like, even when Tou’ea. a dtlaen soldier (kiing jupt a 2-weeks’ stint b' the Nadonal Guard. And ever-presem in die rnemories of ail Guardsmen is die kneWledseihnt' units have been activated in the past and will again in die future. Planners in Washington have discovered that Mr. Khrushchev sobers up fast when he is con'- fronted with three or four National Guard divi sions that have been called into the federal ser vice. The 30th Division. Old Hickory, made upofyour civilian neighbors 'trains hard and pl^s hard against the coming of that very tough day. -PETER B. YOUNG,.SAtgt.. US Air Force. Ret. ★ ★★★★★★★★ The Old Man Has His Turn As Staff Closes In It? . f t j 5^ V ✓ ► — ■ ^ First Soldier Types KP List Cenvnunloatlons Men Keep Wires Humming All Day Medics Apply Burn Ointment To Gl After Accident
The News-Journal (Raeford, N.C.)
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