Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 272, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1917 — Col. Healey Now Has His Regiment On the Range [ARTICLE]

Col. Healey Now Has His Regiment On the Range

Hattiesburg Americans The 151st Infantry, after spending Thanksgiving in Camp, broke camp this morning and moved, practically entire, to the Class A Rifle Range, where it will spend the week in practice over th# ranges. According to Hie orders issued* the regiment will mdrch to the range, all equipment for camping being trucked along; only a few men being left behind for guard duty, etc. The regiment, which is uhder the command of Col. Geo. H. Healey, will be the first to shoot over the new range, which has just been completed. The range is one of the largest in the country, having two hundred and fortty targets, ten times as many as the regulation rifle range.Shooting will be over all distances from two hundred to a thousands yirds. This range was built under the direction of Major F. N. Noble, former chief tactical officer of Culver Military institute and Major Jackson Morris, of Lexington, Ky. Firing over the range will begin Friday afternoon, it is understood, and after a week’s practice the 151st will retrun to its camp and another regiment will take its place.