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Guards to Be Relieved and Mustered Next Week
The United States Guards in the Southern Department, about 4200 men in seven battalions, will be relieved of utility guard duty and demobilized. Battalions are stationed at Galveston Freeport Beaumont Orange Fort Sam Houston El Paso Globe and Jerome Arizona with demobilization centers to be named later. Discharges begin next week after records checks and medicals, with transportation home and 90 days in uniform to ease civilian transition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Guards
Southern Department
Adjutant General of the Army
de Rosey C. Cabell
Galveston
Freeport
Texas
Beaumont
Orange
Port Arthur
Fort Sam Houston
Fort Bliss
Marfa
Finlay
Tercer
Pecos River
Tangtry
Devil's River
Terlingua
Glenn Springs
Santa Fe Street Bridge
el Paso
Paso
Camp Cotton
Elephant Butte
New Mexico
Camp Owen Bierne
Arizona
Globe, Lowell, Bay
Miami
Granite Reef Dam
Midland Bridge Company
South Houston
United States Guard
Camp Travis
105Th
San Antonio