BEGINS TRAINING FORT LEONARD WOOD, MISSOURI
Army Private Melvin P. Thielen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Thielen, Manning, Iowa, recently began six months of active military training under the Reserve Forces Act program at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Thielen is receiving eight weeks of basic combat training, which will be followed by advanced individual and unit training. After completion of the six-month tours he will spend the remainder of his military service with a local Army Reserve or National Guard unit.
Carroll Daily Times Herald, August 6, 1957