Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-19
DRILL SCHEDULE OF
 THE NATIONAL GUARD.
Artillery Corps Are Working Hard to
 Pass the Half Way Mark.

All companies of the Connecticut Coast Artillery corps, c. N. G., like all
 other militia organizations in the country not now in the federal service. have started their drills for the sea- son on the basis of the new schedule, which, under the defense act of June 5, requires 48 drills a year of not less than an hour and d half in length. For the Coast Artillery corps, drills under this schedule began Sept 1, pursuant to special orders issued under date of Aug. 16 by Adjutant General George M. Cole, and it is required that 24 of the drills be completed by Dec. 31 Before the passage of the defense act only 32 drills a year were required General Cole will soon issue orders for drill schedule for the rest of the Con- nectIcut National guard, to become eff fectiVe as soon as these organizations are mustered out of the federal ser vice.
 Conformity with the new drill sched- uIe is necessary in order to receive compensation as provided by the de- Tense act, which compensation is ex- pected to result in much better attend ance at drills than was the case before the act went into effect. At that time officers and men of the militia re- celVed pay only when they were called into service, the rate of pay being the same as it is now when the troops are in similar service.
 Under the defense act officers and men of the national guard organiza- t1ons on the active list who conform to the new drill schedule, receive pay at rate equal to 25 per cent. of the initial pay now provided by law for enlisted men of corresponding grades Of the regular army.
 The scale of monthly pay for the regular army is as follows:
 Quartermaster sergeant, grade, quar- termaster corps master hospital ser geant, medical department, ma ster en- g1neer, senior grade, corps of engineer, and band leader, infantry, cavalry, ar tillery and corps of engineers, $75; hospital sergeant, medical department and master engineer junior grade corps of engineers, $H5: sergeant first class, medical department, $5O ser geant, first class, corps of engineers, regimental supply sergeant, infantry, cavalry, field artillery, and corps of engineers. battalion supply sergeant, corps of engineers, and assistant en- gtneer, coast artillery corps, $45; as- sistant band leader, infantry, cavalry, artillery, and corps of engineers, and sergeant bugler, same branches, $40; first class same branches, supply sergeant, corps of engineers sergeant, medical department, $36; supply sergeant infantry, cavalry, and artillery, mess sergeant, same branch cs,, cook, medical department, horse shoer infantry, cavalry, artillery, corps Of engineers, signal corps, and medical department, stable sergeant, infantry and cavalry, radio sergeant, coast ar tilery corps, and musicians, second class, infantry, cavalry, artillery. and corps of engineers, $50; musician. third class, same branches, corporal medi- cal department, SPA; saddler, infantry, cavalry, field artillery, corps of engi- neers, and medical department, me chanic, infantry, cavalry, and field ar tillery, and medical department, far rier, medical department and wagon CT, infantry, field artillery, and corps of engineers, $21; private, first class, in tantry, cavalry, artillery, and medical department, SIS; private medical de- partment, and bugler, S15.
 Commissioned officers of the national guard receive pay as follows. not to include longevity pay: Captains, $500 per year, the same pay to every officer of higher rank than hat of captain, first lieutenant, $40 per year and second ieutenants, $200 per year.
 This pay schedule, however, is for the time of enlistment of the men of the national guard, while they are not called into service. In case they are out on service. however, they are paid the same as the regular army men,