Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-28

will cover the following subjects: Mill
tary courtesy and guard duty, conduct
and duties of patrols: outposts duties of
sentlnelS, advance guards. attack and de-
Tense, frst-aid and personal hygiene,
nomenclature of rife, preliminary in
struction and drills for rifle. and gallery
practice. This instruction Is to be given
| in the form of lectures or practical dem
onstration. success will depend upon "A
systematic plan developed by the COM
pany commander and careful preparation
on the part of the officer imparting the
instruction, the orders continue. During
the months of March, April and May
this period will be entirely devoted to
the nomenclature of the rifle. preliminary
instruction and drills for the rifle, and
gallery practice.
Omcers and enlisted men who work at
night and cannot attend night drills will
drill at the Center Market, Armory Drill
Hall Tuesday or Friday each week lex
cept members of the LIST Separate Bat
talon, for whom the day will be Wednes-
day at their own armory), for one and a
half hours. between i and 3 pm non
commissioned officers also will receive
school instruction at the same time.
The season of theoretical instruction is
TO be divided into two periods; the first
to be from October to December "A: the
second from January I to April 30
Non commssioned officers schools will
be held in each battalion from to 10
PIN. OII Tic hight assigned TO the
organization. school for quartermaster,
mess and supply sergeants will be held
bi-weekly in each battalion.
A non-commissioned officers school for
the instruction of regimental and bat
talon sergeants-major and color SER
geants will be established by regimentaI
commanders.
Those who fail to attend any of the
schools on their regular night will be
compelled to make up the time some
other evening in the week
The following officers schools have
been ordered established: Company Off
GERS school. field officers school supply
officers school and medical officers
school The school sessions in these
schools will commence at pm
The sessions of the company officers
school are to be held on the second and
fourth Wednesdays of each month in
the 1st and I'd Infantry, and on the first
and third Fridays in the LIST Separate
The field officers school will be held
the first and third Wednesdays of each
month.
The supply officers school will be held
month.
PRACTICAL instruction in tactics and
reconnaissance sketching on the terrain
Will be given, weather permitting, on the
tnlrd sunday OF each month throughout
the school year. Attendance at this in
structon viii be optional and may be
elected in lieu of the solution of tactical
problems given out in the COMPANY or
held off1cers schools. Assembly of the
class will take place at o am
NO program is outlined for the Signal
corps or battery. the commanding Of
ficers of these organizations being or
dered TO submit a program for the in
structlon or their organizations and for
their officers and on-commissioned of
ncers school at the earliest practicable
date
The first half hour of the sessions of
company officers schools will be devoted
to practical instruction in infantry drill
regulations under the inspector instructor
The lst Battery, n. c. ID. c.. is to
nave a regular army officer from the
headquarters of the Eastern Division at
New York to visit it for an inspection In
the very near future. Orders Yesterday
were issued at the War Department di-
recting Col. Grin B. Mitcham of the
ordnance department, or his commission
ed assistant at New York, to visit this
city and inspect the battery orRaniza-
ton. Whoever comes here also will visit
Richmond, Norfolk and Portsmouth. va,
on similar inspection visit
The following discharges from Com
pany NJ, I'd Infantry. have been ordered :
Dishonorab!e, on account of continuous
absence from drills for a period of three
months. Privates Lawrence Allison, Will
liam Binns and George Plummer
Honorable, on account of removal from
the District of Columbia, Privates How
ard Beach, David 0. Cropp and Charles
A. Boeshart