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 Governor, Lt. Governor, Legislators, State Officials Visit Troops In Training 
(Photos by 124th PI Det) 
 
 A Message from Mai. Gen. Jo el B. Pa ri s,lll 
My Fellow Guardsmen: I c ome across a quote recently by W. E. Ch anning , on Ameri can clerg yman of the early 19 th 
c entury: "He who is f ol se to the p res e nt duty breaks a th read in the l oo m, and you will see th e effect when the weaving of a lifetime is unravelled. " 
If we in th e Notional Guard do not perform our duties as they should be performed, then we con expect our organization and, moreo ver, our country to b eg i n to "unravel ". 
We ore p resent l y shouldering a trem endous shore of th e defense of th e Uni ted States. This recent pho se of annual training is giving us feedback on just how wel l we ore prepared to fulfill that obi igotion. 
An other of our du t ies os Guardsmen i s t ha t of being community oriented. If we foil to become invo lved in communi ty activities, t hen that, too, c on cause the ''unravelling" o f all the "weav ing" of others who strive so hard to promote and p ubl icize the Notional Guard with their voice and their deeds. 
personally challenge you to b~ the cotizen-soldier" that our State and our country needs. Don't be that broken ''thread" that con destroy the efforts of so many others. 
Volume 23 - Number 4 - - - - - - - -......... 
Vke (ieorgia 
(iuarJ3man 
 
July - August 1973 
 
HONORABLE JIMMY CARTER 
 
GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA 
 
MAJ GEN JOEL B. PARIS, Ill 
 
THE ADJUTANT GENERAL 
 
COL DOUGLAS EMBRY (GANG, RET) INFORMATION OFFICER 
 
CAPT RUFUS R. BARBER, JR. 
 
EDITOR 
 
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~fLittle One Th at Didn 't Get Awoythe 74 boys attending the 
 
eorgoa National Guard Youth Camp 
 
Ft. Stewart this summer shows off 1 catch. The bo ys participated in 
 
'I activities at t he camp in July. 
 
"' and other photos on pages 8 and 
 
OUR COVER 
This call age of photos represents some of the "Guard events" of this summer. (Left) Governor Corter dons a hard hat to i nspect on engineer project while visiting troops at Ft. Stewart. ( Upper right) Lt. Col. Ben Patterson prepares for a flig ht in on F-100 of t he ! 28th Tactical Fighter Squadron. The Squadron has begun its year-round annual training periods i n the new aircroft. (Lower right) Porti cipants in the Georgi a National Gua rd Yo uth Camp at Ft. Stewart in Jul y s how off some of their Medals from athletic competition. 
A pu bI i cation of the Deportment of Defense, Mi I itory Di vi sian, State of Georgi a. PubIi shed in the interest of the Georgi a National Guard and distri buted free to members of the Notional Guard of Georgia. The Guardsman uses AFPS material. 
 
 Governor Jimmy Corter arrives at Ft. Stewart in June far a vi s i t with ARNG troops. Accompanying him i s Ma j. Gen . Joel B. Paris, Ill, The Adjutant General of Ga. (124th PI Det Photo) 
 
A SO caliber machinegun i s lethal especially 
 
when it's combined with a 155 mm howitze r. 
 
PFC Joseph H. Roberson, Waynesboro , mons 
 
the weapon atop the self- propelled howitzer. 
 
He is a member of Battery C, l/ 214th 
 
Arti I Iery. 
 
( ! 24th PI Det P hoto) 
 
Troops of Decatur's 122nd Support Center and Atlanta's 190th MP Company join 
 
the Governor for the noon meal at the 122nd chow hall . 
 
( 124t h PI Det Photo) 
 
Vi sits by Gov . Carter and Lt. Gov. Maddox highlighted the two-week training period for ARNG troops at Ft. Stewart in Jurie. Approximately 4,000 Ga. Army Guard troops were in training during that time. 
 
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THE GEORGIA GUARDSMAN 
 
 . Guard units perform annua l training ana year-round 
 
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Savannah's ISSth Tactical Control Group 
 
howevekrs in Ju l y at Cecil F ield Naval Air Station in 
 
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129th 
 
Tactical 
 
Contro l 
 
Fl igh t from 
 
set up un i ts a t Hunter Army Ai rfi el d and Savanna ~, 
 
A i r p o r t. 
 
members of the Jrd Brigade participated in anothe r 
:.:;bili z:atio n Readiness Exercise~ a t Ft. Stewart. a s 
 
'"g0 1 theo.r 
 
ann ual training. The I lOth of Hunter Army Airfield 
 
Maontenance Battaloon, provided maintenance 
 
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Lieutenant Governor Lester Maddox visited ARNG troops in training in June. Here he greets men of the 151 st Aviation Battalion at the Savannah Mun i cipal Ai rport. In the background is an OV-1 Mohawk, one of the many aircraft the unit op erotes. 
( 124th PI D et Photo) 
 
Members of the 560th Engineer Battalion construct a motor pool shed within the National Guard Training Area. 
(124th PI Det Photo) 
 
This pow;de'r .chorge is capable of hurl i ng a 
 
103-pound 155 mm round more than 10 mil es, Checking the charge is PFC Augusta Means 
 
of Sparta, Ga. 
 
( 124th PI Det Photo) 
 
 (From p age 3) 
 
Sp4 James Wedincomp (outside) and Sp4 Harold Wedincomp 
install on air purification unit in on M-88 Tonk Retriever. The men are with Hinesville's 164th Heavy Material Support Company. (124th PI D et Pho t o) 
 
Copt. George A. Wallis (right), Elberton, points out targets on a mop to Lt. HeroI d Clements (center), 
 
Wrens, and First Sgt. Robert Womack, Sparta. Their 
 
unit is Battery A, lst Battalion, 214th Artillery in 
 
Sparta. 
 
( 124th PI De t Phot o) 
 
Sp4 Andrew Garner (left) and Sp4 Wi l liam May, both of Sonderville's Co . C. 8 78th Engineer Battal i on, put up studs for the interior walls of a remodeled BOQ p rior to hanging paneling. ( 124th PI De t P hoto) 
 
A Little Summer Camp Humor- by the 124th PI Detachment. 
 
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A sewing machine in the !66th Light Maintenance Company? Actually, CW-4 Norman Brack, Atlanta, is Htting up the machine to sew canvas rather than the latest fashions. Watching the progress is Sp4 Richard Wells, also of Atlanta. 
 
Sp4 Edward Luke and Sp4 John Powell, both of Augusta, make a few minor adjustments to their jeep in the motor pool of the 1148th Transportation Company of Augusta. The 1148th hauled much of the fuel being consumed by the Third Bri go de at Ft. Stewart during a phase of OSD Test Two. 
 
...::.tlng t~e grinding wheel in one of the (  mobole shops is Sps Robert Wagner, 
L ithonia, and assisting him is SpS Frank of Decatur. 
4UG 1973 
 
Du ring the summer camp for the GMI Cadets at Milledgeville, a refresh 
 
ing and enjoyable exercise was conducted by the troops: lunch with Miss GMI , Dole Fortenberry of Clark stan . 
 
(Photo by SSgt. S. Register) 
 
( Co ntinu e d o n .n e xt page) 
 
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 (From page 5) 
 
As As si Divi sia n, 
 
on der for the 30th Infantry mus t find th e solutions to many 
 
problems. These photos show him "doing his thing. " Gen. West is from Macon and is a member of the Georgi a National Guard. 
 
Gen. Paris (center) talks with BG Don Mees, Asst. Adjutant General for Army (r) and Col. James E. Preston, Commander of the Third Sri gad e. The site of the meeting was the field Headquarters of the Brigade at Ft. Stewart. 
 
PFC Bill Harrell , Eastman, takes t ime out to "docto r" his "ch i gge r" bites. The other men manning this Track Retriever are (1-r) SpS Danny Meadows, Warner Robins, and PFC Billy Jones, Byron. Their unit is Headquarters Company, Third Brigade in Macon. 
 
Manning the Third Brigade's switchboard is Sp4 Larry King of Macon. Looking over some recent message traffic is Maj . Bob Young, also of Macon. 
 
Security of the unit area is of prime importance. Checking out his 50 cal. machinegun is Sp4 David Trawick of Macon. He is a member of Headquarters, Third Brigade. 
 
Cleaning his M-16 while the switchboard is quiet is Sp4 Clyde Sequi of Brunswick. He is a member of Service Battery, I/230th Artillery. 
 
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THE GEORGIA GUARDSM Aiib JUL- AUG 1973 
 
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Traveling aboard National Guard buses. 
 
Seventy-four Teen-agers 
 
The yo ungsters , ages 15-18 , 
 
Attend 
 
GaNG 
 
Youth 
 
Cam p r . ,ru.c .pated in a variety of sports 'es softball, volleyball, 
 
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hoes 
 
touch football, and 
 
b rse 
 
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bJ ketball. Playoffs were held in 
 
. f th e sports with some stiff 
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c petition put up by the teams. 
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In add ition to the team s ports , 
 
. hours were spent swimming 
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.II the ft. Stewart pool and fi s hing 
 
on eve ral of the beautiful lakes the southeast Georgia Army 
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post. 
 
"Everybody off the bus! .. .. You've got ten minutes to get your swim trunks on and meet back here! . . .. Hey, it's my turn to bat. ... he can't hit anything . . aw, he was safe.... hey Sarge, I can't get this fish off. . .. I gotta big one! . . . n<? running around the pool! ... you're out! . . . aw L.an, he was safe a mile ! .. knock off the noise in here... can we get seconds on the ham? .. . next guy that throws a pillow or makes a sound, goes on KP!" These were some of the sounds 
 
A papular place for the campers. 
heard at the 1973 Georgia National Guard Youth Camp. Among the sounds also was the noise of those seventy-four campers thundering over the National Guard training area at Ft. Stewart, Georgia from July 14 through 21. 
 
On the tank trai I for a Army Guard equipment. 
 
Department gives 
 
At Travis Field, the y examined closely an Army Guard "Huey" helicopter and then received a tour of the Georgia Air National Guard Facilities there. During their visit to the Air Guard unit , the 16S th Military Airlift Group , the youngsters climbed aboard a C-1 24 Globemaster aircraft for a look then went through the C-124 flight simulator. 
Ft. Pulaski National Park, near Savannah Beach, and Ft. McAllister, near Richmond Hill, were on the list of places visited by the campers. They walked "ove r , under and around" the Forts , both s ites of Civ il War Battles. 
 
Observing the kids in sports competition are Gen Paris ond Copt. Lonnie Kirk, OIC of the Youth Camp . 
On Friday, Maj. Gen. Joel B. Paris, III, The Adjutant General of Georgia, presented awards to the team champions in the sports competition. After the awards ceremony, Gen. Paris , the twentyeight Guardsmen who operated the camp and the youngsters got together for a cookout with steaks and watermelon as the main attraction. 
 
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Pvt. John Hudson umpires one of the many softball games. 
 
The exciteme nt rose to its highest when the yo ungste rs were given rid es on Armored Personnel Carriers by Guardsmen who work at the Annual Training Equipment Pool at Stewart . The campers ll.cre take n down a tank trail on the vehicles a nd then given a 
r~u.rprise . demonstration by a tank 
Utng Simulator and machin eguns Us ing blan k ammunition . 
On several occa sions the Yo uths left Ft. Ste war t to visit other Guard units and historic Ltes . 
 
THE GEORGIA GUARDSM AN b JUL- AUG 1973 
 
Plenty of sports activities were ovoi Iobi e. 
 
Gen. Poris ond Lt. Carroll Edge, Assi stont Officer-in- charge of the comp, tolk with the kids. 
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 MG Thorr son 
Retires 
Major General Charles S. Thompson, Jr. of Marietta has retired from the Georgia Air ational Guard and has been promoted to the retired rank of lieutenant general. 
General Thompson served as commander of the 116th Military Airlift Wing, Dobbins Air 
Force Base, for 9 years, until assigned as Chief 
of Staff, Headquarters, Georgia Air National Guard in Atlanta last year. 
Major General Joel B. Paris , Ill, Adjutant General of Georgia, said ''General Thompson exemplifies the true volunteer spirit of Georgia Guardsmen. He was an original member of the Air Guard which was formed at Candler Field , now Hartsfield International Airport, in May 1941 and enlisted as a member of the 128th Observation Squadron. 
"He had a distinguished career as a pilot and flying group commander during WW Il," General Paris said , and "has contributed immeasureably to the readiness of Air National Guard components throughout the State. General Thompson also served as United States Property and Fiscal Officer for the Georgia ational Guard from 1947 to 1963. " 
General Thompson held numerous decorations for his 32 ye ars military service. Among them are the Di-stinguished Flying Cross with Oak Leaf Cluster, The Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters, Vietnam Service Medal (for flights into Southe as t Asia) and the Armed Forces Expeditionery Medal. 
 
ANG "Gooneys" Now Extinct 
The venerable C47 Douglas Skytrain , better known by World War I1 pilots as the "Gooney bird," took its last flight from Dobbins Air Force Base on 1 August 1973. It was the last C47 in the Air Guard inventory. 
The Georgia Air 1ational Guard's 116th Tactical Fighter Group at Dobbins flew the last of the historic twin-engined aircraft to its fina l destination, Dixie College, at St. George, Utah. 
The C47 has one of the most colorful and longest histories of any aircraft in the Air Force inventory. It was developed from the Douglas DC3 and was the mainstay of commercial airlines in the 1930's. 
The Air Guard at Dobbins had been equipped with C47's since the late 1940's. Its original C47 #4 2-93607 was called into the active Air Force in the Vietnam War and was converted to a gun ship. It did not survive and crashed while on 
a miSSIOn. 
The last C47 was sent to Georgia as a replacement from the South Dakota Air Guard. 
As it taxiied out for it~ last take -off from Dobbins it had logged 11 , 185 .5 hours . lt '5'/as manufactured more than thirty years ago , in 1942 apd deliv ered to the Army Air Corps on 22 July 1943 . Its tai l number was 42- 24058 . 
Piloting the last "Gooney" we re Colonel William H. McVey , Senior Air Force Advisor; Lt. Col. Rederick A. Davis , Air Opn Off, Hq, GaA G; and T / Sgt Lebraun Arnold, Crew Chief. (D.E.) 
202ND IS OUTSTANDING UN IT - - Maj. Gen . William H. Bauer (right) joins Lt. Col. George E Smith in admiring the Air Force Communications Service P Ia que just presented to the 202nd Electronics Installation Squadron of Macon. Co l. Smith , Commander of the Air Guard Unit, ac cepted the plaque namin g the 202nd as Outstandi ng Unit in AfCS. The unit was in comp etition with nineteen other simi lar units across the Notion. (20 2d 10) 
 
 THE GAMMA-GO AT: three cy lin der d ie se l pow e re d, 55 mph top speed, six wheels, o ne driver, ond two girls. Two girls? Wow, that's s o me standard equ ipm ent! Actual Iy, Di a nne London (I eft) and Morci o Ha rt of At Ionto's USP FO ore no t port of the "Goa t's" equipment an d obviously, neither is SFC F ronk Barnes, th e driver of this "Goat ". The g i rls presence do odd be auty to t his beast, but the ' 'beast's performance will equally impress you. It's on all-terrain vehicle with two versions. One is the M792 Ambulance p i ctured here and the other is the MS61 Ca rgo Carrier. This "go- anywhere-type" vehicle even has a heater in the ambulance comportment. 
 
A WAC FOR THE I lOTH - Lt. Col. Charlie Ricketts, Commander of the llOth Maintenance Battalion, congratulates Deborro Ann Wallace, 18 , after swear ing her in as a member of the Georgia Army Guard and as a member of the llOth. Deborro lives on Holbrook Drive in Mori etta. 
 
155th "Primes" The Pump 
Some 600 fam i lie s on Wilmi ngton Is land near Savanna h were without water on July 17 beca use of a ma lfuc tion in the p ump i[Jg system at one of th e island' s we ll s . To a lleviate th e droug ht , a t a nk truck from the 155 th Jac tical Control Group, GaA G , in Sava nn ah was parked tn th e s hopping center area of Wilmington. The thirst-quenching fluid flowing from the ve hicl e ' s va lves brought sig hs of rel ief from the res idents. 
JUL - AUG 1973 
 
I 16TH COMM FLIGHT SPONSORS OUTING 
On July 21, the I 16th communications Flight, Georgia Air Notional Guard, Dobbins AFB, sponsored on all day outing for 13 boys from the Cobb County Juvenile Center. The outing wos organized by Lt. Col. Marcus L. Winchester, Commander of the I 16th. The day's activities consisted of a general orientation and campi ete tour of the Dobbins facility by SSgt. Sam Walker. They toured the telephone switchboard, aircraft control tower and the Air Notional Guard flight line, where they sow the F-100 and T -33 aircraft. The F-100 Flight Test Simulator was the highlight of the tour. According to Mr. Martin, Director of the Juvenile Center, the boys hove very few opportunities to hove on outing of this nature. (PIO-ll6th TFW) 
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 LT. COL. PAUL CASTLEBERRY has his retired rank of Col on el pinned on by Brig. Gen. Don Mees, Asst. Adjutant General for Army, at ceremonies held in July. Col. Castl eberry also received the Georgia Commendation Medal for displaying ' 'outstanding abi li ty and ini ative in s uccessfully coping wi t h the many complex problems of personnel management during his period of service as Personnel Officer for the Georgie Army National Guard. , . " He is a veter an of WWII with over 30 years service in the mi Iitary. 
 
HONOR GUARD - Members of the 170 MP Battalion's !90th MP Company act as honor guard for activation ceremonies of Army Readiness Region IV at the Atlanta Army Depot in July. Maj. Gen. S.H. Matheson assumed co mmand. Region IV is the focal point through which the Active Army assists the Notional Guard and Reserves in improving their overall combat readiness. ARR IV is under the First United States Army, headquartered at Ft. Monroe, Virginia. Third Army at Ft. McPherson has been de-activated. 
 
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THE GEORGIA GUARDSMAN 
 
  DEPARTMENTS OF TH E ARMY AND AIR F ORC E OFFICE OF THE ADJ UT ANT GENE RAL P .O. BOX 4839 ATLANTA , GEORGIA 30302 
OFFICIAL BUSINE SS 
 
POSTAGE AND F EES P AID DEPA RTMENT OF T HE ARMY 
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Three Army Guardsmen Receive Awards 
Gen. Paris Makes Presentations 
 
(Phot o s by 124t h PI Det) 
 
COLONEL BEN L. UPCHURCH, 122nd 
Support Center, Decatur: Awarded the f eorgio Commendation Medal . Col. Upchurch was cited for establishing the "Engineer Project Management Syst~m " in the 265th 
neer Group which significantly improved 
training and the effectiveness of the 
its in that command. 
 
CAPTAIN JOHN R. SABO, IIOth Maintenance Bottol ion , Atl onto: Awarded the Georgi a Commendation Medal. Copt. Saba was cited for performing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on a 13- month old child who hod stopped breathing. " Copt. Saba's unhesi toting response to this emergency and his life-saving action were instrumental in 
 
CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER WADDELL, 122n d Support C e n te r, Awarded the Disti nctive Service Georgia. CW4 Wadd e ll wa s c it e d out standing devotion to duty as Adm inistrativ e Sp ec ial i st for the Support Center" and for h i s ' 'p ability 11 and "sound judgem e nt. "