Local National Guard Unit Returns
Wins Glenn R. Farmer Merit Award
The Kodiak National Guard
company returned home early
Sunday morning with honors from
their annual two week encamp
ment at Camp Der.ali, on Fort
Richardson.
Forty local guardsmen, in com
pany with 21 citizen-soldiers from
Ilomer, brought back the Glenn
R. Farmer Merit Award for out
standing achievement at the two
week’s encampment where the
unit achieved high honors in
Third Battle Group competition
including platoon level proficiency
testing by Regular Army person
nel.
The local guardsmen and the
Left to right, shown in the receiving line at a tea honoring Mrs.
Dorothea Caldwell and Mrs. Helen Bakutis, are Mrs. Patricia Mc
Cormick, Mrs. Mary Ann Smith, Mrs. Marian Fulp, Mrs. Caldwell
and Mrs. Bakutis. The affair was held at the Officers Club, Naval
Station, on March 28. U.S. Navy Photo
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Homer men also proved that they
were adequately trained and re
ceived a “combat ready” rating
from the Regular Army observers.
In the two week encampment,
which included a three day biv
ouac, local guardsmen participat
ed in several platoon exercises
under simulated combat condi
tions. Their performance in these
exercises were only part of their
achievements toward the merit
award.
The Kodiak weapons platoon
trained with live mortar rounds
many times during the exercises
and the two 106 mm anti-tank
squads proved very effective in
live action on their field prob
lems.
The local company commander,
Lt. Bruce Willard, of Homer, stat
ed that “the men of the Kodiak
and Homer platoons performed
excellently on this two week en
campment and showed standards
and espirit de corps that led the
whole Third Battle Group.”
“This is the first time the Glen
Farmer Merit Award has been
given to a company of the Third
Battle Group,” Lt. Willard said.
“The plaque representing the mer
it award will be on display at the
Kodiak Armory and also in Hom
er.”
As a result of being designated
a “combat ready” unit, members
of the Kodiak and Homer unit
will be able to wear the blue
shoulder braid on dress uniforms
as soon as the formal designation
is announced by higher headquar
ters.
Members of the Kodiak unit who
participated in the two weeks an
nual training are SFCs Richard
Hartman, Charlie Miller and Frank
Pagano, Staff Sergeants William
Anderson, Charles Pemberton, and
Robert Norman, Sergeants Cecil
Chabitnoy, Edmund C. Hall, Otto
Mahle, Reynold Morris, and Mike
Swensen, Specialist Fifth Class
Alvin J. Cohen, Corporals Wilbur
Fuller, Maurice Harmon, Robbie
King, Ray Shively, and Danny Val
ley.
Also PFC Neil Berestoff, Clay
ton Copsey, Robert Coyle, Jim
and Laurence Davenport, James
Loe, Walter Nested, Eddie Op
heim, Skip Olsen, John Reft,
Preston Shively, Lars Tunohun,
Ronald Strope and Privates Carl
Christiansen, Sandy Daly, Mitch
Chya, Willie Hall, David Hughes,
Ray McNeil, Ronnie Berntsen,
Reggie Griggs, and Gene Read.
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At the termination of encamp
ment Lt. Willard stated that “It
is a pleasure to serve as an officer
with the Kodiak men. At this
encampment these Kodiak and
Homer guardsmen proved that
they are the equal of any unit in
the entire state of Alaska.”
In winning the Glenn Farm
Merit Award for performance at
encampment the Kodiak-IIomer
company shared honors w i t n
guard :men from Fairbanks- and
Anchorage, and competed success
fully against larger units from
Ketchikan, Juneau, and Sitka.
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Emil Knudsen
Hn Hospital
Emil Knudsen, who went Out
side last week, is presently a pa
tient in Virginia Mason Clinic in
Seattle.
He expects to be in hospital for
at least another week.
Permit Requested
The San Juan Fishing and Pack
ing Company, Seattle, Washing
ton, has applied for a Department
of the Army permit to maintain
an existing wharf, marine ways
and mooring dolphins on the north
end of Sheep Island, Alaska.
The wharf, marine ways and
mooring dolphins are located at
the eastern end of Northeast Arm
of Uganik Bay, Kodiak Island,
Alaska.
Objections, if any. to proposed
installation from the standpoint
of navigation should be mailed to
the U.S. Army Engineer District,
Alaska. P.O. Box 7002, Anchorage,
Alaska to be received no later
than April 27.
GRANDMOTHERS CLUB TO
MEET MONDAY. APRIL 9
There will be a meeting of the
Kodiak Grandmothers Club on
Monday, April 9, at the home of
Mrs. Edward Ogborn, 51 Mission
Hoad.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank all our many
friends who sent flowers to the
Village Bar opening.
Ginny and Ruth
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