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Local servicemen enter training and assignments across services
Second Lt Ronald L Fetherlin of 1509 Jackson Ave reports to Meridian Mississippi for Marine jet pilot training with North American T A 2 Buckeye duties and 200 hours academic instruction. Marine Sgt Herbert C Kahrer sails for a 13 month Far East tour with the Third Marine Division. William C Casto Jr earns airman second class at Sheppard Air Force Base after basic at Lackland. New Castle area men complete basic at Fort Knox and await six months active duty with Quartermaster Corps at Fort Lee. Two more New Castle men head to Fort Dix for eight weeks basic training under the 1955 Reserve Forces Act.
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Ronald L. Fetherlin
John R. Fetherlin
Jackson Ave
U. S. Naval Auxiliary Air Station
Meridian
Miss
Marine Corps
Fetherlin
Grove City College
Herbert C. Kahrer
William Kahrer
Washington St
Far East
General Mann
San Diego
Calif
Third Marine Division
Okinawa
William C. Casto Jr
William C. Casto
Sheppard Afb
Tex
Casto
Mohawk High School
Air Force
Lackland Afb
Bonnie Sue Miller
Mt. Jackson
Wichita Falls
U.S. Army Reserve
Fort Knox
Quartermaster Corps
Fort Lee, Va
Walter Hilyard
Edmund C. Hilyard
Harbor Rd
Thomas Pawlak
Thomas L. Pawlak
Maitland Lane
Barry L. French
New Castle
Fort Dix
N.J