Bio: Kara, Billy C. – Completes Specialty Course (1972)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Kara

----Source: THORP COURIER (Thorp, Clark County, Wis.) 17 Aug 1972

Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland – Army Private Billy C. Kara, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Kara, Route 1, Thorp (Clark Co., Wis.), completed a seven-week Recovery and Evacuation Specialist course at the U.S. Army Ordnance Center and School, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.

He learned to perform recovery and evacuation operations for abandoned, damaged, disabled, and mired vehicles. He also was taught to operate light and medium track recovery vehicles, wrecker trucks, and tank transporters.

Pvt. Kara entered the Army in March 1972, and completed basic training at Fort Knox, Kentucky.

The private is a 1970 graduate of Thorp High School.