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Cadets destroy missile base in raid
By Kent Hawes
Reporter
■The sound of machine guns
echoed through the woods of the
T^xas A&M Range Center Saturday
asp group of cadets blew up a missile
bast located on the outskirts of Eas-
terwood Airport.
Brhese cadets are part of Recon
Unit, a voluntary military task force
traming unit in the Marine division.
■Even though the raid was for mili-
tan practice, the men involved in
Rdcon Unit carry out the task as if it
weieareal situation.
■Dressed in camouflage-colored
clothing and with faces painted
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sembled at 6 a.m. to check artillery
Hd receive instructions for the mis-
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site by 7 a.m. for briefing from the
•t at odhp.m, con mantling officers.
■fom Marble, commanding officer
of Recon Unit and a junior in the
Marine division of the Corps of Ca-
N f CHAPTQllek instructed the troops on how to
"^■ry out the manuever.
■‘We will take no prisoners,” he
said “Blow up the base and get out.”
■Maj. John McGuire, active marine
and instructor at A&M, stressed
safety above all to the soldiers.
■‘Even though we are using
^nnks, a person could get hurt if ev-
i;|r\ precaution is not taken,” he said.
■Forty members of the unit partici-
■ted in this weekend’s mock raid of
an enemy missile base.
■The unit was divided into four el
ements: two assault groups, one se
curity group and one demolition
group.
■The primary function of the as
sault groups is to fire upon the
enemy after the security team has
deared the area.
■The first assault team began be
hind a line of trees and slowly
■i ked its way through mud, brush,
llrass and ants to the area designated
as the missile base.
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day. The cadets involved in the maneuver blew
up a missile base near Easterwood Airport.
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Once the team reached the front
line, a signal was given and the
sound of machine-gun fire laced
through the area.
The second assault team moved in
from the side to check the area for
survivors as the demolition team set
charges around the missile base and
blew up the target.
When the mission was completed,
the teams regrouped at two nearby
sites to imitate pickup by helicopters.
The mission was successful and no
casualties were reported, though the
ants claimed a few victims in the
process.
As easy as the procedure sounds,
it was a well-coordinated and
thought-out mission.
Before the attack, the unit had
two rehearsals and also held meet
ings to review procedural tactics.
McGuire said that the Recon Unit,
which began in the mid-1970s, gives
members the chance to participate in
military procedures and learn the
different tactics used.
“The practical experience is a fun
opportunity for students, as well as
(being) useful,” he said.
The unit is only offered to mem
bers of the Corps and costs $5 a se
mester. Proceeds go toward a year-
end trip.
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ymphony finishes season
ith powerful performance
By Karl Pallmeyer
Music Critic
Bit wasn’t until after intermission
that the Brazos Valley Symphony
Orchestra began playing to its full
potential. But once that happened,
the orchestra ended its last concert
of the season with a powerful and
wjeil-received performance.
B About 700 people attended the
concert held Saturday night in Rud-
dpr Auditorium. Pianist Lin Wang,
Gold Medal winner at last month’s
Brazos Valley Young Artist Compe
tition, joined the orchestra, under
thr direction of conductor Franz
Anton Krager, for Frederic Cho
pin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Mi
nor.
■ The evening’s performance began
with Franz Schubert’s “Overture to
Rosamunde.” Although the orches
tra played with precision and exper
tise, there was not much fire or emo
tion in the piece, except for the brass
introduction and the finale.
I Wang took her place at the piano
for the Chopin concerto. Despite her
small and seemingly delicate pres
ence, Wang attacked the piano with
speed and vigor. Her playing was
fast and hard, or slow and lyrical —
just what the piece required. After
each movement, Krager turned to
Wang and gave her a reassuring
smile.
As on the Schubert overture, the
orchestra did not seem to be putting
its all into the performance. Wang’s
playing slightly overpowered the or
chestra during the concerto.
After intermission, the orchestra
was in much better form and per
formed Maurice Ravel’s orchestral
transcription of Modest Mussorgs
ky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition.”
Mussorgsky wrote the piece in mem
ory of his friend, Russian architect
and painter Victor Alexandrovich
Hartmann.
“Pictures at an Exhibition” con
sists of 10 sections, and an introduc
tory theme titled “Promenade” that
is used to connect the sections. The
piece is set up to suggest a person
walking through a museum, stop
ping to look at Hartmann’s paint-
ings.
The majestic “Promenade,” intro
duced by the brass, gives way to the
broken rhythms of “The Gnome.”
The interplay of percussion and
brass was marvelous throughout the
piece.
Each section of the orchestra got a
chance to shine during the various
sections of the Mussorgsky piece —
the woodwinds during “The Old
Castle” and “Tuleries,” the brass
during “Bydio” and “Samuel Gold-
enberg and Schmuyle,” and the
strings during “The Hut on Fowl’s
Legs.” The orchestra unleashed its
full power for the last section, “The
Great Gate at Kiev.”
After the impressive performance
of “Pictures at an Exhibition,” the
orchestra performed Georges Bizet’s
“Farandole,” ending the concert on
a high note.
Record lows
follow on heels
of mild winter
Snow and the coldest spring
temperatures in almost half a
century were recorded across
Texas on Sunday, and the Na
tional Weather Service said sub
freezing readings were likely for
much of the state early Monday.
In Austin, the temperature hit
34 on Sunday, tying a record for
March 29 set in 1944, and
weather officials said the March
30 record of 33 was also in jeop
ardy.
In records dating back as far as
1927, the weather service has
never had a reported reading of
freezing or below in Central
Texas in the first part of the year,
after March 28, officials said.
The frigid weather comes on
the heels of an unusually mild
winter in Texas. Only six days of
temperatures 32 or less were re
ported in Central Texas over the
three months, with less than 24
hours total under the freezing
mark.
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