Guardsmen stage mythic one day war at Ft Bragg
National Guard 2nd Artillery Battalion with 319 enlisted men and 27 officers trains under combat conditions at Ft Bragg. Batteries from High Point and Leaksville move into positions to face a mythical enemy in a field exercise begun at 1100 hours.
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FT. Bragg
National Guard
Leaksville
Andrew Jackson
Guy Langston
Greenville
Frank R. Poole
Greensboro
High Point
English Street
Ward Street
Foxtrot Foxtrot Ends Day of Battle at Chick en Road Lima Two
Night combat across sandhills saw Battery B Lt Jim Jarrett and Battery A Lt Art Honeycutt fire 155 and 1050 howitzer rounds in darkness. OP 17 relayed data as Foxtrot and supporting units stormed the target area and declared the day’s tactical problem solved.
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Battery B
Jim Jarrett
Battery A
Art Honeycutt
Roger Butler
Chicken Road
Lima Two
Joe Mitchell
Thomasville
OP 17
This and That Forrest Dates Returns To Columns
Forrest Dates was on vacation last week and will resume his This and That column next Sunday.
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Forrest Dates
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John Baskin
High Point Enterprise
Elmer Horton
Maj
David Hodgin
Frank Poole