Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-06-09


Requests for transfer from ARMY
to Navy or the other way around
have become SO
Transfers Between frequent as to
Army and Navy. s eaase ., good good
ance to the two departments, and an
informal arrangement has been made
between them that such transfers
shall not be made without good rea-
son therefor in every instance where
1t is sought Only in cases where the
enlisted man is to be benefited in
some particular way will his appli-
cation be approved.
1t not infrequently happens that
the peculiar qualities of a man make
it probable that he will be Of more
value In the one service than in the
otner, and in such case there is usu-
ally better opportunity Tor the ad-
vancement of the Individual in the
service service ne Is seeking to be trans
gentleman's agreement" some call
its that an application for trans
Ter Will not receive favorable action
unless the service and the individual
az the same time will be benefited by
For long time the adjutant generals
office, U. s. A., has had under considera-
ton plan Of
Changes in Officers concentrating the
Training Camps. , ,or o,,,ssr. camps in $
few large camps. where all would re-
ceive the same course Of training, to
take the place Of the plan hitherto in
vogue. of having some officers under
their preliminary training in each of the
divisional camps or environments. There
were two strong objections to the older
method. The one has arisen since the
more rapid movement of troops from the
camps has been initiated, and that is the
changes in the divisional organizations
in which the training was given. This
caused an interruption in the education
of the embryo officers, with serious re-
harm arising from the second objection.
This is that officers trained in different
camps under different instructors were
not homogeneous. They had not been
taught to look at things from the same
point OF view or to treat the men under
lHeiT command III the same way, thus
producing uneveness between the units
under the same command, with results
that might under certain circum-
stances be even disastrous.
With the slowness of decision that did
characterize the action of the general
staff. it was impossible to make these
changes in time for the fourth officers
training camp. but it seems that the
question is about settled. and now some
of the commanders of the new camps
are in conference over the best way Of
organizing them.
Five camps have been decided upon.
Three of them will be for infantry and
one each for machine gun training and
field artillery.
One Of the three infantry schools
will be at each of the three replacement
camps: Gordon, at Atlanta. Ca; Lee,
Petersburg, Va, and Pike. Little Rock,
Mo. The schools will be respectively
In command Of Lieut.. Col. Edgar A.
Frye, u. s. A.; Col H. A. Eaton,
U. S. A., and Col. Charles Miller. u. s. A.
1t is now thought they will be opened
about the first of September.
Camp Taylor, Louisville, Ky, is the
central camp for field artillery. As
semb1y and training and the school for
field artillery officers will be located
there, but its conman ding officer has
not yet been designated. The training
center for machine gun companies and
machine gun batteries is at Camp Han
cock. Augusta, Ga. The advent OF the
Browning heavies in quantity production
makes possible the ADEQUATE training Of
machine gun units before the depart