| Summary: | National Guard / Alabama group at Shelby Mississippi / National Guard camp and Mississippi Meridian / Lovely Meridian titleholders / Fair of Meridian beauties / Meridian title winners / Faye Staniscavage, 18, left, is the newly-crowned 1966 Miss Meridian. Carol Ann Easterling, also 18, is Meridian's Miss Hospitality. Miss Staniscavage, a tall ash brownette with hazel eyes, earlier this year was selected as "most beautiful" at Meridian Junior College, where she is a sophomore studying nursing. she won a $200 scholarship and an expense-paid trip to Vicksburg to compete for the Miss Mississippi title. Blond, green-eyed Miss Easterling, Phi Mu elementary education major at Mississippi State University, received $200 cash and an expense-paid trip to Biloxi to compete for the state Miss Hospitality title. / Green Beret instructs / Sergeant First Class Spenser L. Luster, Company A, 20th Special Forces, on rifle range with Private Jimmy Donner, 18, Centreville, Alabama. / Do it this way / Sergeant Dale Martin, Fulton, Mississippi, shows Private Harry Corder, Pontotoc, how to throw grenade / Dangerous and hot / Recruit crawls under live machine fire over infiltration course for first time / After rifle instruction / Private Mickey Langford, Centreville (nearest camera), drinks from canteen while column of Alabama troops await ride back to barracks / [Notes included]
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