The Washington herald., 1917-07-10
STUDY TASK GROWING
FOR NEAR.OFFICERS
Fort Myer Candidates Resume Prac-
tice at Edsall Rife Range.

That there is plenty OF room for
increasing their knowledge of military
science. student officers at Fort Myer
are beginning to appreciate as volume
after volume of texts and maps are
added to their curriculum for study.
Eighteen books on military problems.
maps and tactics have been issued
to each candidate for a commission,
and the end is not in sight.
washouts at the Edsall rifle range
have been repaired and members OF
the Second Company hiked there yes
terday for the two days practice shoot
ing. They will be followed Wednesday
by members of the Third Company.
The Fourth Company is under orders
to leave for practice Friday.
Candidates remaining at camp yes
terday were given an hours practice
march. thirty minutes drill in grenade
throwing. This was followed by a
study period and recitation on the
Manual of Court Martials. In the
afternoon the candidates took up
sketching and map-drawing. The
grind of intensive training is begin
ming to tell on some OF the candi-
dates, even those who have seen SER
vice under trying conditions on the
Mexican border.
The candidate at Fort Myer has
little time for recreation. Having to
fall in for formations at all times of
the day. trench-digging. all sorts OF
drills and books to study, about all
the time a cadet has to himself is
from AIS to 5:45 p. m. After his
last lecture period at night, he is
too tired to do anything but dror
into his bunk utterly exhausted. one
OF them said.
One hundred and forty men from
different branches of the service at
camp were selected by Adjt. Babcock
to be examined on July % for COM
missions as second lieutenants in the
regular army. The remaining student
officers who will be commissioned when
the camp ends on August IL will be
assigned as officers in the new draft
| army of 10000.
Washingtonians in training who re-
| ceive commissions will be assigned to
command troops to be raised by draft
/ in the District of Columbia. II the
number commissioned exceeds allotted
| officers for the Districts quota the
excess will be assigned to other COM
mands.
Local Men to Study Flying.
Four Washingtonians are in the list
of fifteen student officers detailed from
| the training camp at Fort Myer to
the British aviation school at Toronto,
| Canada They are Lawrence Hoover
2722 Connecticut avenue; Jesse o.
Creech. 661i Harlan place; Donald
Hudson, the Rochambeau, and Ed
ward Donovan. 12H Tenth street. They
will entrain for Toronto today. II
they succeed in qualifying as aviators
they will be assigned to Pershing's
army at the French front.
The names of the men who have
seen service abroad and are now
undergoing training at the camp. have
been cabled to Gen. Pershing. Among
these names are the following: Capt
| Charles Sweeny, of the Foreign LIE.
/ gion; Charles ]. Morgan. who was
] sergeant major in the Ninety-seventh
! Canadian Battalion; John Crum, who
was in the Twelfth Gloucester Bat.
talon, and the following who served
with the American Ambulance Corps
w. A. Slater, jr.. w. E. Richardson,
James O'Neill, Otto B. Budd. X. G.
/ Colwell, J. r. Childs, Leonard Ober.
John L. Harrison and A. G. Thurman.