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Local servicemen receive training updates in Shepherd area
In Shepherd Michigan Army Pvt Michael A Florian 18 completed eight weeks of advanced infantry training with heavy weapons at Fort Polk Louisiana He learned to use the 81 millimeter mortar 4 2 inch mortar and 106 millimeter recoilless rifle He joined the Army last October after graduating Shepherd High School in 1963 PFC Ray D Davis 24 assigned to the 3rd Infantry Division in Germany March 11 He entered service February 1963 and trained at Fort Knox Ky and is a Mount Pleasant High School graduate Edgar L Carter 20 began basic training at Naval Training Center Great Lakes Ill for nine weeks Including naval orientation history and organization ordnance and gunnery military drill first aid and survival Navy service paths await further assignments.