TV Guide (July 31, 1954)

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the observer: from atop a mobile transmitter a camera watches war games. Television, identical instruction to large or scat¬ tered units of men. TV gives the serv¬ ices the maximum use of facilities and equipment for training purposes; it brings distant, or inaccessible, objects before groups anywhere in the U. S. The Navy has just installed a new $250,000 teaching system in the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Tests proved learning effectiveness to be far superior when TV was utilized. This is particularly so in “how to” instruction—how to assem¬ ble weapons, how to make a pack, etc. Seems today’s trainees, used to Captain Video, Dragnet, Milton Berle on their home sets, take to television instruction as ducks to water. Television, the scout: from a forward post Gl's train a camera on the 'enemy.' 17