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Thvrsdav, March 28, 1963
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Special Forces Training
Maturity—Motivation—Mili
tary. These are the three M’s the
U.S. Army Special Forces soldier
is ehosen by and which are
drilled into him throughout the
long months of his training. And
•with the new emphasis on this
▼ital mission the Army National
Guard has once again met the
challenge of modem warfare by
Gen. Greenlief
manpower over the last year. One
word ran characterize the men of
the 1 my National Guard Spe
eial Forces organisations from
Alabama, Louisiana, North Car
uana, Utah, Rhode Island, and
West Virginia—dedication.
At first, it may seem difficult
to conceive how so difficult a mis
sion, requiring such highly
trained and versatile personnel
could be performed by these part
time soldiers who can only spend
weekends at their training. Ac
cording to Brigadier General
Francis S. Greenlief, Assistant
Chief for Army, National Guard
Bureau, the answer to this is that
the average National Guards
man, “realizes he has more than
a weekend commitment and gives
it gladly. These men, the cream
©f the crop, dedicate themselves
to the sacrifices of time and tal
ent necessary for them to become
crack Special Forces troops”.
They are athletes, professional
jnen, salesmen—from all walks
of life —but with a few things in
common. They all love the out
doors. They are individualistic,
mature, self-sufficient —a mix
ture of their traditional ances
tors, the colonial or frontier
militiaman and the best of the
modem milita. y man.
For example, in November of
th : s year 150 Louisiana National
Guardsmen of the 21st Special
Forces Group, spent an inclement
S'*urday afternoon parachuting
fi three C-119s just north of
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in order
to maintain their parachute pro
ficiency. Special Forces troops
being airborne qualified is one of
the first requirements of Special
Forces training.
For two weeks last summer
Special Forces troops, members
©f the 16th Special Forces Group
©f the West Virginia National
Guard, carried out a realistic war
game in the rugged mountains
and wooded slopes that make
West Virginia the "little Switz
erland of America”. Attached to
the airborne infiltrators were six
bands of “civilians” made up of
168 Maryland National Guards
men who had volunteered to live
off the land and to learn the hit
and-run tactics of guerrillas as
Drug Addiction Is Far More
Serious Than a Bad Habit
By The Medical Association
Os Georgia
Sometimes we hear people
describe a drug addict as some
one with the bad habit of tak
ing drugs. While there are cer
tain similarities between the
person with a bad habit and
the addict, the problems of ha
bituation and addiction are
really very different. One of
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FIGHTING UNTT—end he looks
it! An Army National Guard Spe
cial Forces trooper is rigged for
combat as he checks out heavy load
of equipment before boarding an
airplane for a practice jump. Like
Active Anny counterparts. Army
Guard SF Troopers train in “un
conventioiud” warfare techniques
taught by the "green besets" at
West Virginia.
The six bands roamed through
sections of a 200-square mile
area around Camp Dawson, West
Virginia, during "Operation
Dare", striking with sudden and
devastating swiftness at enemy
installations and troops. When
they were not harassing aggres
sor forces, the guerrillas spent
hours in their forest classrooms
learning about weapons, demoli
tions, communications and other
skills essential fbr survival in
enemy-held territory.
Just how rugged was this
training?
“Too rugged for me," said
Jimmie Orr, pro football player
with the Baltimore Colts, after
he returned to “civilization" with
his Maryland Guard unit.
Most of the Guardsmen, mem
bers of Alabama's 20th Special
Forces Group, joined the 19th
Special Forces Group of the Utah
Army National Guard last sum
mer. Those who were not with
them were at various training
schools, such as the U.S. Naval
Amphibious Base, San Diego,
California, for specialized train
ing in amphibious techniques and
underwater reconnaissance and
demolition.
These are just a few of the
activities of these men in their
efforts to ready themselves for
any and every type of warfare.
adding its own
top-flight citi
zen-soldier Spe
cial Forces units
to the ranks of
this elite group.
The Army Na
tional Guard
now has Special
Forces units in
six states, all of
which have in
tensified their
training and in
creased their
I the main differences is that
। being addicted to a drug is far
more serious than merely be
ing in the habit of taking some
drug.
Repeated use of a drug can
establish a habit which is very
difficult to break, but it can
be broken by not using the
substance in question. Break
ing the habit is a matter of
Guarusmen
Anticipated
Fitness Call
National Guardsmen all over
the nation rose to the President’s
call for better physical fitness in
this country. Even before the De
partment of Defense directed it,
the National Guard began a
। voluntary program to raise the
level of physical fitness in the
Guard.
The grunts and groans of push
ups and the voices of Guardsmen
supporting youth fitness in their
communities came first from
North Carolina where the Na
tional Guard developed a com
prehensive program under the
guidance of physical education
instructors from North Carolina
State College and Guardsmen
outstanding in the athletic field.
Upon approval of the North
Carolina program by the Presi
dent and the President’s Council
on Youth Fitness, headed by Sir.
Bud Wilkinson, Director of Ath
letics for the University of Okla
homa and Special Consultant to
the President on Youth Fitness,
the National Guard Bureau of
fered this program to the States
as a pilot program for the entire
National Guard.
Writing for the President, Mr.
Ted Sorenson, Special Assistant
to the President, said to Major
General Claude T. Bowers. Ad
jutant General of North Caro
lina: “The President is gratified
by the program you have initi
ated. It should assure the physi
cal fitness and readiness of each
unit of the North Carolina Na
tional Guard as well as result in
great personal benefits to the
Guardsmen involved.... It may
well set an example for other
National Guard units to follow.”
It did set the example. Guard
Fitness Project Officers, Adju
tant Generals and Senior Troop
Commanders flocked to National
Guard Physical Fitness Confer
ences at Raleigh, North Carolina,
and Salt Lake City, Utah to see
the North Carolina program
demonstrated for them by crack
National Guard Special Forces
troops.
Though seme representatives
came to the conferences with
skeptical minds, they went home
convinced and immediately began
the task of instituting programs
in their own states. Many states
have already begun their pro
grams and the North Carolina
program is already past its first
testing period.
The North Carolina program
consists of a specified number
of repetitions of a series of six
exercises administered at each
regular drill period. The process
is repeated at least three times
a week by the individual at home.
Testing is conducted three
times a year. Test scores are con
verted to percentiles which en
ables comparison and promotes
individual and unit competition.
As the realization of the im
portance of physical fitness comes
across to the Guardsmen they
throw themselves enthusiasti
cally in to the program.
exercising the will — difficult
though this may be. Strong
willed people probably find it
easier to break such habits than
others. They’re also probably
less likely to form the habits.
A habit can, of course, lead
to addiction. But addiction is
a far more involved problem
than habit. Even a strong will
ed person can become an ad
dict by taking or being given
sufficient amounts of addict
ing drugs. When a person be
comes addicted to a drug, his
body may undergo changes
which will cause severe reac
tions on withdrawal of the
drug. For tJiis reason, when at
tempts are made to cure the
addict, he is usually weaned
off the drug by gradually re
duced amounts.
The use of addicting drugs
to relieve pain is an important
part of the practice of medi
cine. When these drugs are
properly used, there is very lit
tle danger of the patient's be
coming addicted. The short
term use of even very power
ful addicting drugs to relieve
severe pain is harmless. But
addicting drugs should not be
used for relief of chronically
recurring discomforts which
can be relieved by less danger
ous drugs.
The responsibility for avoid
ing indiscriminate and careless
use of addicting drugs is shar
ed by patients and physicians.
Most addicting drugs are sold
only on prescription. But ad
dicts and potential addicts have
been known to obtain prescrip
tions for addicting drugs from
several physicians at the same
time.
The World Health Organiza
tion Committee of experts on
drugs liable to produce addic
tion has defined drug addiction
as follows; “A state of periodic
or chronic intoxication, detri
mental to the individual and to
society, produced by the re
peated consumption of a drug
(natural or synthetic). Its
characteristics include: (1) an
overpowering desire or need
(compulsion) to continue tak
ing the drug and to obtain it
by any means; (2) a tendency
to increase the dose; (3) a psy
chic (psychological) and some
times a physical dependence on
the effects of the drug.”
Drug addiction is a poor
trade for relief of physical,
mental or emotional pain and
suffering.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
Elks Aidmore
Hospital to
Receive $50,000
Over $50,000 was given to
Elks Aidmore Hospital for
Handicapped Children as the
Spring Meeting of the Georgia
Elks Association at the Buck
head Atlanta Lodige March 9-
10, reports Albert E. Koch of
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Decatur, executive director of
the Hospital. The contributions
came from Elk Lodges and Au
xiliarieg throughout the state.
Grand Exalted Ruler and
Mrs. Lee A. Donaldson of Etna,
Pennsylvania, visited the chil
dren at the hospital while in
Atlanta for the association
meeting. They were also taken
on a tour of the $600,000 hos
pital and clinic wing which
was completed last year. Mr.
Donaldson is the national head
of the Benevolent and Protec-
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tive Order of Elks of the Unit
ed States.
Elks Aidmore Is located near
Emory University in Atlanta
and is owned and operated by
the Elks of Georgia for the ben
efit of handicapped children of
our state.
About 800 children are ad
mitted to the hospital each
year, according to Robert G.
Pruitt of Atlanta, chairman of
the board of trustees. Since its
beginning Elks Aidmore has
admitted over 9,000 handicap
ped children for treatment,
Pruitt said.
In a recently concluded sur
vey, the American Foundation
for the Blind noted that thirty
thousand people lose their sight
each year. At present, the sur
vey continues, there are ap
proximately 400,000 Wind men,
women and children in the
United States.
Use of herbicides to prevent
and control growth of weeds in
cultivated crops is rapidly in
creasing in Georgia, say agron
omists of the University of
Georgia Extension Service.
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Fertilizing Coastal Bermuda
The most efficient fertilize!
practice for Coastal Bermuda,
point out agronomists of tha
University of Georgia Exten
sion Service, is to apply phosp
hate and potash annually in
April with nitrogen applied in
four split applications in the
spring.
From 1900 to 1955 annua]
production of steel ingots and
steel for castings in America
rose from just over 11 million
to 117 million tons.