Alvin Wallin
At Fort Knox
Fort Knox, Ky.— Pvt. Alvin A.
Wallin, whose father, Ivar A. Wal
lin, lives in Kodiak, currently is
undergoing advanced individual
armor training in the 2d Training
Regiment at the U.S. Army Train
ing Center, Armor (USATCA),
Fort Knox, Kyy.
The 2d Regiment, a major unit
of USATCA. conducts eight weeks
of advanced training for those
troops who have completed their
initial eight weeks of basic combat
training. As an armor trainee,
Walln will be taught to drive
the tank, load its 105mm gun, and
fire the weapon.
Wallin, assigned in Company A
of the regiment’s 3d Battalion, is
scheduled to complete this train
ing April 28.
The 23-year-old soldier entered
the Army last December and com
pleted basic training at Fort Ord,
Calif.
Wallin, a 1959 graduate of Cas
tlemont High School, Oakland,
Calif, was employed by the Alas
ka Packers Association, Seattle,
Wash, before entering the Army.
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1918 now living in Alaska may
receive assistance from a national
organization equipped to offer
them advice on existing laws and
pending legislation which may af
fect them.
The Veterans of World War I
of the U.S.A., a national organ
ization chartered by Congress and
pledged to their service has is
sued a call for all such veterans
whose average age they say is 67
years, to write the organization,
sending their name, address and
serial number. The information
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panning demonstration, was cut
short by a steady rainstorm, but
the all-day trip ilast Sunday had
favorable weather for examination
of the tungsten, gold and nickel
occurences in the Anton Larsen
Bay area.
Repeated here by popular de
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whenever a minimum of 20 stu
dents can be enrolled) was attend
ed by some' holders of mining
claims now awaiting development.
In fact, a low-grade tungsten claim
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inessmen, housewives, sportsmen,
clerks, teachers, etc, who may one
day stumble across a Kodiak bon
anza because of being enrolled in
this class are: Clyde E. Barber,
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