Word: 159th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lest your readers think all National Guard summer encampments are similar to that of the Louisiana Air National Guard's 159th Fighter Group, I suggest that you visit my unit at Camp Curtis Guild, Reading, Mass...
...flounder fishing, a football, two tennis rackets, playing cards, a hi-fi set, beach sandals, a straw hat-and a set of military uniforms. Then, mixing himself an oldfashioned, he settled down to begin his two weeks' summer training with the Louisiana Air National Guard's 159th Fighter Group...
...will trudge reluctantly off for two weeks of required duty in the dust of Massachusetts' Fort Devens, the red clay of Georgia's Fort Benning, and the isolation of dozens of other dreary installations. But for the past six years, the 800 members of Louisiana's 159th Fighter Group have barely been able to wait for their training sessions to begin at Gulfport, a resort town on the silvery sands of the Gulf Coast...
...make sure everyone has enough fun, the 159th begins work at 7 a.m., and nearly everyone is done by 3 p.m. The base supply unit improves even on this schedule: it has two duty shifts, one from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. and the other from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. Mused one supply man last week: "Of course the four hours in the second shift include time out for lunch. But, on the other hand, that shift does break up your...
Dedicated Men. Yet for all its charming ways, the 159th Fighter Group is considered by the Pentagon to be a crack Air National Guard outfit. The group can put eight of its 16 F-102 jet interceptors into the air within 20 minutes, can come to full operational strength (pilots, maintenance men, armorers) in less than an hour. The hard core of the 800-man group is 175 fulltime employees who are classified as "civilian personnel.'' With little real responsibility, many of the remaining 625 might be bored with the Guard-were it not for the annual training...