[News Script: Marines] Page: 3 of 8
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MARINES - 2
are in the battalion,
c, the motor officer for
in the Fifth that itseven a Catholic chaplain who's
the outfit.
Morale is. so high
marines make the month drills
from as far away as Houston, Beaurmont and Lubbock. Many
of 310 enlisted men and 25 officers are not required to
;att end the monthly but most of them do -- and
every one is presen this jaunt to Fort sill, which
began on Friday. Every 105-shell is loaded with bags
of power, from one to seven, depending on the power
that's needed to heave the to the desiredtarget.
Two batteries, Alpha and Bravo, make ur the
TIRE OUT
fifth battalion, with a total of 12 105-howitzers to be
deployed on the target.
rhile the guns are being set up, corpsman string a line
of wire from the batteries to a spot .00 yards to the
front, where a pair of men at the Forward Observation
Post sight on the target and call for fire.SOF.,.SOF
SOF...SOF
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Marines], script, March 12, 1961; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc986623/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.