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Show 16 everyone else did." At the end of two weeks Janey said goodby to the other members of the team, not knowing that they would be brought together again. The Bicentennial was approaching, a possible target date for militant demonstrators. In February, 1976, National Park administrators decided to make the team of twenty-four law enforcement rangers official; they gave it the title of the Special Activities Group. The SAG members would continue to work at their regularly assigned parks, but if trouble threatened, they could be flown quickly to the problem area. To prepare for this viork, Janey and the other SAG rangers vient to Denver, Colorado for a week's training - on the rifle range, and in the gym vihere they were taught to disarm people. FBI instructors lectured them about terrorist groups and the viay they operated. The Special Activities Group spent hours learning the properties of explosive devices vihich they might have to deal with. Mount Rushmore would be the center for a big Bicentennial celebration on July kt 1976. Once more, to guard against any possible flare-up of trouble, Janey went viith the SAG rangers to the Memorial, but once again, all was quiet. She viorked nights that time, from 8 PM to 8 AM. At 8 o'clock on the morning of July kt Janey left Mount Rushmore and drove to the motel vihere she vias staying. After twelve hours of patrolling foot trails in the dark, all she wanted was to get into bed. But when she arrived at the motel, she found a message - she was to call the Chief Ranger at Yellowstone National Park. Yawning, wondering what it was all about, Janey placed the call. |