The Washington herald., 1921-02-27
Naval Reserve Notes.

Believing that there is fair wealth
er ahead and little possibility that
there will be any further freeze
up in the Potomac River, plans are
being made by the officers and men
of the Naval Reserve of the District
of Columbia for a series of week
end and Sunday training cruises
down the river aboard the sub-chas-
er 210, which has been assigned here
for instruction purposes.
The little craft has been tempo
rarily laid up for the winter, but II
is the announced intention to send
the vessel to the dry dock at the
Washington navy. yard very soon
in order to have her underwater
hull inspected, and to have removed
the plugs placed in her hull to keep
circulating water from getting to
the water-jackets of the gasoline
engines and injuring them.
The men are looking forward to
the cruises with a great deal of in
terest, as, besides being able to keep
up-to date on naval practices, they
have pleasures denied those who are
not members of the reserve and who
cannot have their own little yacht
for down-river cruises.
The work of the naval reservists
is being made more interesting
every week, and everything is being
done for the benefit of the men.
Those men who fail to attend
drills as required by the naval re-
serve act, it was pointed out by. off,
GERS, are missing many pleasures in
the navy in time of peace, but
which owing to the nature of the
service during the war was denied.
Efforts will be made from now on
to make the service attractive to
young men who were not old enough
to participate in the recently ended
conflict. To that end a recruiting
service will be established at the
army, Water and o streets south
west, Monday night, March Z. Any
young man of Is years or over and
in good physical condition will be
taken into the service. This is the
first effort here at recruiting the
reserve force since the end of the
war.
1t was asserted by officers in
charge at the armory that young
men who enter this branch of the
service now will have a good op-
portunity to train for promotion
to the commissioned grades, and
should the United States be unfor-
tunate enough to be caiied into
Another conflict they will have good
berths. Many young men who
trained with the local naval militia
before the war became officers after
they were called into the service.
For this purpose schools are
maintained requiring but an hour
and a half of time each week. There
are schools conducting regular
courses in navigation, ordnance and
gunnery. and seamanship. Besides,
the local reserve force furnishes op-
portunity for the men to learn en-
gineering. radio operating and
maintenance, and signaling.
Lieut.. Comdr. Albert p. Tibbets,
veteran of the world war, and
chief surgeon of the local resery-
lists. will make the physical exam
ination of those who apply for en-
rollment.
The Naval Reserve enrolment
ONCE, which for a number of years
was located in the old Naval Hos
pital Building at Ninth street and
Pennsylvania avenue southeast, has
been moved to the Water Street
Armory, thus putting under one roof
all of the activities of the local
reserve force. Lieut.. C. e. Eason,
o. 8. n. is in charge Of this ONCE.
The annual hull and engine in
spectfon Of subchaser 30, assigned
to the local reservists. was held
during the week by q board of Of
fcers from the Navy Department
and the Washington Navy Yard.
The report on the ship. which is
commanded By, Ensign Donahue, U.
8. N, was reported to bs excellent.