The Washington herald., 1919-07-07
ARMY AND NAVY
Trimming Navy Radio Men.

New quotas have been assigned
the naval districts for the transfer
or men to naval radio schools, as
follows:
Naval training station, Newport.
r. l., 20 men per week.
Naval training station. naval op-
Grating base. Hampton Roads, Va.
Is men per week
Naval training station. Great
Lakes. ILL.,. 80 men per week.
Hospital Educational Service.
With the discontinuance of educa-
tional service in the base hospitals,
personnel attached to the educa
tional section of the division of
physical reconstruction will be
available for transfer to hospitals
still continuing the educational
service. Qualified persons with good
rating who are willing to remain
in the service will be retained and
transferred to these hospitals. Re-
Gently these instructors were rated
as to efficiency and after July l a
detailed efficiency report of indi-
vidual assignments and working
hours will be required in order to
insure economical operation.
The surplus educational instruc-
tors now available will be distrib-
uted among the hospitals without
waiting for request from the hospi-
tails for their detail. Hospitals are
directed to ascertain the fitness of
these instructors by actual trial.
To reduce any surplus they will
select the least desirable and rec
ommend their discharge. In some
cases there may be a temporary
surplus of Instructors, but there
will he no permanent increase of
personnel above that actually neces-
sary for the efficient and econom-
ical operation of the educational
service. nor will educational per-
sonnel be diverted to other branches
of hospital s"rvcie.
Individual Service Records
By order of the Secretary of War
enlisted men arriving at ports of en-
barkation will not be allowed to leave
for rehabilitation centers unless ac-
companied by their individual service
records, or unless these records have
been forwarded by mail to demobli-
zation centers.
Heretofore some members of casual
companies whose individual records
were not with the records of their
detachments, have boarded outgoing
trains from embarkation points with
out authority, and upon arriving at
rehabilitation centers have been dis
charged on their supplementary serv-
ice records. while being carried at
embarkation ports as absent without
leave or In desertion.
War Service Certificates,
A war-service certificate is being
issued by the U. S. Marine Corps to
all who served in the corps between
April 6, 1917, and November IL. 1918.
This certificate is given in addition
to the regular discharge certificate,
and in form suitable for framing.
Each certificate contains the sigma
ture of the major general command
ant, George Barnett
Every person who served honorably
in the Marine Corps during the period
mentioned is entitled to one of these
certificates, whether commissioned,
warranted, or enlisted. and whether in
the regulars or Marine Corps reserve.
They are issued also to the female re-
servists. popularity known as Mari
nettes."
Those who are hereafter discharge,
Cor in the case of reservists who are
disenrolled or placed on the inactive
status) will receive a war-service
certificate with their discharges.
Those who have heretofore been dis
charged and who are entitled to be
certificate will receive the certificates
as soon as they can be prepared
II will not be necessary in any case
for anyone to make application for
this certificate. Such application
would only delay the issuance Of the
certificate by adding to the work Of
the Maa)ne Corps headquarters.