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The Nome Nugget
Nome, Nome County, Alaska
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Alaska National Guardsmen from the 207th and 208th Infantry Battalions undergo intensive two-week training encampment at Fort Lewis, Washington, with a report on conditions at the end of the first week, dated April 9, 1956.
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Alaska Guardsmen At Fort Lewis Get Stiff Training
FORT LEWIS, Washington (P) "Weather good. Food even better. Training intensive."
That thumbnail sketch of life for Alaska's National Guardsmen was the report Saturday at the end of the first half of the two-week encampment here.
Most of the outsiders' interest has been in the natives in the units, most of them from Mt. Edgecumbe. But the visitors have been surprised to find that the 207th and 208th Infantry Battalions, the two which came south, look and train just about like any other National Guard units. There is nothing here to excite the fanciful statesiders who thought they might see igloos around the camp.
The Alaska units are getting varied training in handling firearms—from carbines to rocket launchers—in the timbered areas of the vast reservation.
They are housed in comfortable two-story barracks and get most of their noon meals in the field by special delivery.
But it has been a rugged life for the Guardsmen: up daily at 5:15 a.m., the start of classes and training exercises at 6:30, and a long day of activity until 5 p.m.
The men generally have been too weary to worry about evening recreation before they turn in.
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Fort Lewis, Washington
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Two Week Encampment, First Half Ended Saturday Before April 9, 1956
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intensive training with no reported casualties; guardsmen report good weather, better food, but rugged schedule leaving them weary.
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Alaska National Guardsmen, including units from Mt. Edgecumbe, participate in a two-week encampment at Fort Lewis, receiving varied firearms training in timbered areas, housed in barracks, with field meals and a daily schedule from 5:15 a.m. to 5 p.m.