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Wednesday August 6 1980 Reservists train at Combat Center (Hraeam BHcara ansnauD MV mm By LANCE CPL. INEZ J. STONER An advance party of about 200 Reserve Marines began arriving at The Combat Center July 26 from all over the country This was only a small part of the nearly 7,000 Reservists scheduled to arrive there Aug 2 for two weeks of annual training duty unlike regular Marines, all over the country, Frohnen, reserve affairs director This exercise will represent almost 20 percent of the total selected Marine Corps Reserve Arriving from 69 cities in 34 states, the Reservists make up the Second Marine Amphibious Brigade, commanded by Brig General W.C. Groemger, USMCR They will be participating in the second brigade-size Reserve Combined Arms Exercise ever to be held at The Combat Center CAX8-80 This exercise will be considerably larger than last year's during which a little more than 4,300 Reservists participated The primary purpose of this is to give the benefits of the training to more Marines, explained Frohnen The First Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment (One-24) from Detroit, Mich and the Third Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment (Three-24) from St Louis, Mo comprise the Regimental Landing Team (RLT-24) Pre-exercise training will include use of the live fire, company-maneuver range, a one-day rehearsal, followed by a live fire exercise in the Gypsum Ridge training area The live fire portion of the exercise for One-24 will be Aug 8 through 10, while Three-24 will participate in their live fire exercise Aug 12 through 14 The typical scheme of maneuver for Portions of the air support will be provided by regular Marines from Marine Corps Air Stations Yuma, Arizona and El Toro. A Brigade Service Support Group from the Fourth Force Service Support Group, Atlanta, Ga will provide logistical support.

While the majority of the Reserve Marines will be arriving at The Combat Center by commercial means, approximately 1,000 will participate in the Joint Airborne-Air Transportability Training (JA-ATT). The JA-ATT, an Air Force managed training program, involved the assault landing of eight C-130 aircraft on the Assault Landing Field, a dirt airfield located near the Combat Centers Expeditionary Airfield, Aug. 2. The exercise, which according to Col. Frohnen represents what would happen at mobilization, requires the landing force to practice on dirt fields.

most combined arms exercises will be used during CAX 8-80) The exercise will emphasize fire support coordination within a Marine Air Ground Task Force. During the live fire portion of the exercise, the Reservists will attack and destroy simulated enemy forces within the Gypsum Ridge training area Electronic warfare, chemical agents and night counter attacks will be employed against the exercise force. As was anticipated several years ago, the MAB configuration is the most viable one for deployment purposes, said Frohnen We have spent a whole year getting ready for an exercise like this RLT-24 will be supported during the CAX by over 100 Reserve units and detachments from all over the country The aviation Combat Element will be flown by Marine Aircraft Group-42, Fourth Marine Aircraft Wing, Alameda KVCR is trying Public TV in future? ordering of the equipment and in one year at the very best we could have a new delivery system. Were keeping our fingers crossed that the transmitter will last till then. nardino Community College Board of Trustees at the June 4 meeting We would anticipate hearing if we were funded by July or August of 1981, Burgess said.

If funded, we will proceed with the The Department of Commerce could fund up to 75 percent of the cost, he explained. The station has already raised $100,000 through various fund raising techniques. Another $150,000 was set aside by the San Ber Books, books, books Look in vertical file for info not in books SPA CHEMICALS By LYN COTIIREN Morongo Basin residents, who have long held the short end of the stick in regards to television service, can hold out the hope that somewhere down the line they could be receiving broadcasts from a public television station. KVCR, a station licensed to the San Bernardino Community College District, has to replace its transmitter and would like to place the new one as to provide a signal to communities not now receiving public television coverage. Like the Morongo Basin, for instance.

At present, KVCR TV Channel 24, which has been in existence since 1962, is transmitting from the San Bernardino Valley College campus, said Fred Burgess, director of grants and development and former KVCR station manager. With UHF inr ORIGINAL PCRTABl SEE IT AT: kind (we have a bunch of craft magazines tucked away in there), food -whatever. And while youre digging through it, look up at the wall above the file cases. We have a selection of art works by Ed Fennemore hanging here now, including acrylics and serigraphs. Theres a fascinating serigraph of a blooming cactus should add here that Friday we received a new book, Elementary Seismology, by Charles Richter (name sound This is a textbook that very thoroughly covers the entire phenomenon.

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Weve done a bunch of engineering studies and that sort of thing and the plan were looking at at this point is to locate a transmitter on Box Springs Mountain, just east of Riverside, adjacent to the UC Riverside campus. The delivery system were looking at would also include translators and-or microwave systems to extend the signal insofar as is financially feasible to outlying communities, he noted. We cannot promise that were going to deliver a Grade A signal into Yucca Valley, were trying to do that, but economically it gets very complex. The decision on where the equipment is placed will depend on terrain, the elevation of the mountains and cost considerations, Burgess added. Also, transmission to the Barstow and Victorville areas is a concern to the planners.

Burgess and Judith Hert, KVCR program director, held a forum in Yucca Valley in June to discuss the future of public television here. One of the principal areas of interest revealed at the meeting was an interest in getting college credit through television courses, Burgess commented. Since 1973, 125 courses have been offered by the station, he said, with 13,000 students enrolled in that time. The station also conducts local community service programming, including some coverage of local politics and politicians and local regional events. At present, Burgess and the KVCR staff are concentrating on raising money for the project, which will cost an estimated $1 million.

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SPECIAL 5 fr 09 By RICK ERICKSON YV Branch Librarian Next time youre in the library and cant find what you want on the shelf, ask about the vertical file. This is in three sets of file cabinets on our south wall, and includes everything from government pamphlets to newspaper clippings to research reports and more. Often this material isnt available in books. For example, we have little in books on Joshua trees but the vertical file has several pretty thorough descriptions. There are several copies of articles on Scorpions, with much more information than is included in our books.

Earthquakes is another area about which we have little book material. The verticle file has a good deal of general information, including a 1977 State Earthquake Response Plan that informs us that the Immediate Emergency with the observed or reported occurrence of an earthquake (not, as we peasants might have supposed, with a forest fire or flood or Santa Ana winds). It also helps by suggesting that if damage is minor or no threat exists, operations should return to normal. How is it that the government, state or federal, can make obvious common sense things seem complicated? But besides gratuitous advice like this in the file is a good report on the San Andreas fault and some realistic actions and reactions to help us through an earthquake. I expires: 183 HEARING AID SERVICE IDEAL MALL 56659 29 PALMS HWY.

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