Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-24
STUDENT OFFICERS PUT
ON REAL WAR TRAINING
Camp Organized Into Various
Branches of Service and Actual
Field Work Begins. =.

With the halfway period passed In
the three months of training. and the
$500 qualified applicants and candi-
dates for commissions in the reserve
officers camp at Fort Myer segregated
into three branches Of military service.
these embryo officers are now entering
on a period of intensive training.
The camp Is now organized into nine
companies OF infantry, three batteries
of field artillery and one troop of cav
airy. The engineer company has gone
to Belvoir. Va Each branch of the
service during the last week has been
given preliminary work in the prob
lens or war that apply particularly 10
The early part of the week the infan-
try companies were instructed in throw
ing up barbed-wire ENGAGEMENTS. Dur
ing the study hours the men were kept
busy on map drawing and sketching
drawing contours especially difficult
Trench digging was started Friday
morning and this phase of the work
will be continued until the camp takes
on the aspect of a battle front in France
with its system Of communicating
trenches and barbed wire entangle-
ments.
AS soon as the mon have been fairly
trench digging they will be. instructed
in throwing grenades and bombs.
To Study Machine Gun.
A detail from the camp is to be Sc
lected this week to go to one of the
big armories for instruction in machine
gun manufacture. Volunteers have
been called for and the number of men
under consideration for this duty has
been reduced to nine. They are to be
made machine gun experts. commission
ed as captains and sent throughout the
country to instruct the officers and en-
listed men of the mobile army in all
that pertains to machine gun, as
sembling 1t, making new parts, repair
ing and caring for this important war
machine.
Washington society people are be-
men in camp and each afternoon at
drill there Is. a large gallery of specta-
tors who visit with the young men
in uniform after retreat"
The troop of cavalry is composed
of trained horsemen, many of whom
have seen service with Troop A, LIST
Maryland Cavalry, and other crack cav
airy outfits. The troop is anxious to
get in shape as soon as possible and
is planning for an exhibition drill.
Officers on Duty.
The regular army officers on duty
at the camp are:
manding; Lieut.. Col. William ]. Glas-
gov. senior instructor; Maj. George r.
Spalding, second assistant instructor;
Maj. Ora E. Hunt. assistant instructor;
Maj. Arthur NJ. Whaley, camp surgeon;
Capt. Conrad S. Babcock. adjutant since
May %; Capt. Samuel p Pearson, camp
quartermaster; Capt. Thomas w. Holly
day, ordnance officer and engineer as
sistant to quartermaster: First Lieut..
Charles l.. Caulden, assistant to camp
camp mess officer; Capt. Preston b.
Hite. assistant to quartermaster: Capt.
Frank B. Smith. assistant to quarter
master; Capt. Edwin NJ. Lawton. as
sistant to quartermaster; Capt. Carl
d. Ford. assistant to quartermaster;
May %, assistant instructor; Capt.
Ephriam G. Peyton. assistant in
structor. 14th Company: Capt. Horace
P. Hobbs. assistant Instructor, 18th
Company; Capt. John f. Bond. assist
ant instructor. Sd Company; Capt.
structor. I'd Company; Capt. Hago D.
Schultz. assistant instructor. 9th Com
pany: Capt. Bruce B. Butler, assistant
Instructor. 4th Company: Capt Henry
w. T. Eglin, assistant instructor, 9Th
Company: Capt. Arthur H. Doig. as
sistant instructor. Sth Company; sick
in Walter Reed Hospital since June
%; Capt. William G. Meade. fire mar
shall, assistant instructor. It'll Com
pany: Capt. Edmund r. Tompkins as
Edwin De l.. Smith. assistant instructor
9Th Company; First Lieut.. Harrison
Brand, assistant instructor. 18th Com
pany: First Lieut.. John F. Conklin,
assistant to adjutant, police officer
First Lieut.. John f. Bennett, assistant
Joseph NJ. Swing, assistant instructor,
18th Company.