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Union*Bu1 letfnWafla Walla, Wash., Sunday. June 26, 1955National Guardsmen From Valley Due Salute, Easy Chair, After Camp StintBy CAROL LUND | li . . ^ungr^ GuardsmenBy CAROL LUNDChances are, someone you know came home this weekend from Washington-Oregon National Guard training at Fort Lewis.When you see him next, salute him. (It won’t: be militarily correct, but he'll deserve it.) Then offer him a chair.Men of Walla Walla’s two Guard companies, plus Milton-Freewa-ter’s company, joined 8.150 other men from the two states at Northeast Fort Lewis June 13.With Walla Walia’s Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Second Battalion, 161st Infantry Regiment, and Company H of the same regiment as host groups, a couple of Union-Bulletin staffers spent 24 hours at the camp last weekend, eyewitnesses to the fact that men in Guard summer training are fed, clothed and occupied.To put it mildly.Climax of the first week’s train-1 Ing fcr the 8.300 members of the 41st Sunset Infantry Division was the Governor's Day review for Gov. Arthur B. Langlie; Maj. Gen. Lilburn H. Stevens, adjutant general of Washington; Maj. Gen. Thomas E. Rilea, adjutant general of Oregon; Maj. Gen. Harold G. Maison, commanding general of the 41st, and other dignitaries. (General Maison, whose home is Salem, retired last week to be succeeded by Brig. Gen. George Cook of Seattle).MoreThe review was the Guard’s climax, but for the two U-B people there was one climax after another—such good potatoes for breakfast don’t come their way every day, and neither do helicopter rides.Maj. George Donnelly and Capt. D. E. Swanson, advisor-instructor to the Air National Guard, picked up the Walla Wallans Friday afternoon at the County-City Airport and landed them a comfortable hour and 40 minutes later (at 1800 plus) on Gray Field, thel old Fort Lewis airport which served as parade ground for thereview next day.From 1800 plus, the visitors,^ c0j. H. W. Hankel and Sfc.!Sound rainfall looked______ . . - .JJV. v-v/s. *1-. uvu.m s .v/wn.wu thOllghtfulr®*? a a /r,fnce _ .°* Garlin Munkres, army advisors to and began talking of sidewalls of°DC °f them-Frak,£• the Walla WalU guard, were the'plyboari.TT D ' ^ manager of the ;reSpecjjve escortSi but it was CWOU*B, who was a captain of F j L0yci who borrowed fromA drive around old Camp Murray, where Scotch broom and1 *in the 1920 s it was a officers mess lace paper doil- ,. . , .,glimpse or two over the shoulder, L. and ,,namel dinnerware for spruce _are push ing up through^theto be sure, at Camp Murray where t^e jone woman guest in the the units used to tram before they became too many, and Fridaynight he attended a dinner in the 161st officers mess; for the otherEMmess. :®Stompersmess hall over which the late Happy Beaver presided, and a tour of the 161st infantry area in the northeast region of the fort led to a store of lore released by Capt.area men joined others from 1955 summer training of the at Northeast Fort Lewis, train-M/Sgt. Jens Olsen and his broth-visitor, a woman reporter, din-'er, Sgt. Erik Olsen, old hands at Robert L. Fanning, battalion ad-ner was in the enlisted men’s mess ! the army game, were cooks for jutant—including an anecdote about' *.............. l_ — ” Wallar*-----1/tAc«;inm11SUMMER SERVICE—Walla WallaWashington and Oregon for the Oregon-Washington National Guard ing which ended Saturday. In the upper left picture the local men are shown as they boarded the bus June 10 for Pasco where they switched to trains. Note the uniforms—old style. AH men of the 41st Sunset Infantry Division were issued new green uniforms and “General Dean” caps upon arrival. In the upper right-hand picture Guardsmen are shown at one of their first camp duties. White rocks border the walks, spell out company names in front of headquarter tents. The two middle photos showT Walla W'alla’s two companies, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd battalion (left), and Company II, both of the 161st regiment, as they appeared for the Governor's Day review. Lower left are Hq. to hungry Guardsmen; and a visit with Milton - Freewater’s Capt. George E. Smiley, whose Headquarters Company, Second Battalion, 186th, hopes to go from its present 66 to its full strength of'81 men before long.His officers are Lieuts. Donald Summers, Jim Feigner and James Reese and WO Melvin Barnes.RCA MenThen lunch, the review, and the|Governor’s reception in the FortLewis Officers’ Club where Maj.Wayne Saltmarsh, 2nd battalionexecutive officer, was host to theU-B visitors and where a coupleof Royal Canadian Army officersdrew happy cries from women guests. Their dress uniforms were navy blue, w’ith stripes of red on their trousers, red fringed sashes around their waists.The U-B staffers left for home from McChord Field at 1800, in a C-45 piloted by Capt. Frank Frost of Spokane, who kindly detoured to within a small-bore-shell’s distance of the tip of Mount Rainier, and a large, calm mountain it is.Upon the woman reporter, whose previous contact with military organizations was two weeks as a Girl Scout, the National Guard camp left an impression of awesome activity, organization and discipline . , . and food. Her guess was that Guardsmen gained a total of 45,000 pounds, and didn’t go home hungry. •__A.
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Walla Walla Union Bulletin
Walla Walla, Washington, US
Sun, Jun 26, 1955
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