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Service Area Boys Take Part in Marine Exercises at Pendleton
Edward A. Rojas son of Mrs May 17 to June 2 with Marines Tony Rojas at 11 W Santa Fe from the First Marine Division took part in Operation Granite Creek at Camp Pendleton Calif May 25 to June 1. The two week maneuver tested the Navy’s carrier striking force of the Seventh Fleet in a landing exercise off Southern California. Lt George Kinney Jr Garden City attached to the 1st Airborne Battle Group of the 505th Infantry was a project officer for the D Day anniversary jump at Ste Mere Eglise Fr. Kinney has been in Germany since last August. Pvt Donald L Michel son of Mrs William Michel 412 N ard assigned to Company C 18th Battalion 1st Training Regiment at Far Jackson DC for eight weeks of basic combat training. After basic training he will get a two week leave before reporting again. Army Pvt Marlin R Krentzel AB Larry D Godek is taking 24 whose wife Myra lives in Dighton was assigned to the 3d Division’s 30th Infantry Force at Lackland Air Force Base San Antonio Tex He enlisted in the Army in Oct 1958 completed basic at Fort Benning Ga and arrived in Europe last month Krentzel son of Mr and Mrs John E Krentzel 816 Summit is a 1954 graduate of Ulysses High School He attended Garden City Junior College and Fort Hays State College and was a teacher in West School before entering the Army Pvt Robert E Scott son of Mr and Mrs Robert B Scott 615 N 11th took part in Operation Twin Peaks on the California coast from the Army.