Evening star., 1923-05-13
THE CIVILIAN ARMY
BY LIEUT.. STEPHEN F. TILLMAN.
Organized Reserves National Guard

bars will be turned in and q new
type badge, with appropriate bars
corresponding to those turned In and
a bar for the new republication at
tached thereto, will be issued"
Plans have been completed for the
the City Club by the Washington
branch Of the United States Infantry
Association.
A military field meet. the first Of its
of Maryland. College Park, Md. on
May 28,- June I and 2. Cadet Maj.
Pollock has been appointed to choose
| a board which will fax handicaps for
| the men who otherwise would be out
| classed.
! The militia bureau has prepared for
issue a new set Of cards for members
| of the National Guard, three In num-
| Der, all identical as to contents In
serted in the blanks provided for the
purpose Of asserting the, qualifica-
| tion for federal recognition and show
| ing rank and date. One card is to be
retained by the officer as his personal
record. Another is intended as
state and the third will be placed
with the corps area commander.
William Glenn. 2515 Cliffbourne
street northwest, has obtained papers
from Maj. John Scott. local executive
officer for the organized reserves, and
| lieutenant, Infantry officers Reserve
Corps. Mr.. Glenn has been with the
Maryland National Guard.
Authority has been granted by the
War Department to the United States
Infantry Association for the publica-
| tion of an edition Of the new infantry
! training regulations covering the
| combat principles of the infantry
! squad, the infantry section and the
infantry platoon. The text for these
| training regulations was prepared
under direction of the chief OF in
| fantry at the infantry school and Is
| the very latest and up-to-date matter
on the subject which they cover. The
distribution of this book at this time
will enable the troops. the Reserve
Officers Training Corps, the National
| Guard and organized reserves ITO
| have this new material In time to get
| it over and have it available for use
| in connection with the summer train
! ing.
| Reserve air service officers held
| their May meeting Tuesday evening
at the Graham building. Four reels
! OF interesting air service activities
featured the evening. Wednesday
afternoon the air service ofncers Wis.
tied the air service demonstration at
, Boiling Field. which was arranged
! for by Gen. Harry H. Bandholtz. COM
manding the district of Washington.
Plans are being made by the War
| Department to turn over to the Ma
tional Guard 2.445 Regular Army
! horses after July 1. This number
| will not be sufficient to furnish all
units the number of animals author
! lied. In order that as many units as
| possible will have horses available
| for training purposes the following
allowances to the units specified will
be authorized for the fiscal year 1924
i (no mules will be authoriZed):
! (a) National Guard units which
will receive horses for training pur-
poses: All types of caralry units,
mounted combat engineer units. all
types Of horsed field artillery units
and divisional signal companies.
(b) The allowance of horses when
! a single unit Is located at an armory
is as follows: All types of cavalry
troops. 80 horses; mounted combat
| engineer Companies. 16 horses: squad
! ron headquarters detachments, 10
| horses: gun batteries or horsed field
artillery. 80 horses; brigade and regi-
| mental headquarters batteries, serv-
| ice batteries, battalion headquarters
detachments and combat trains and
ammunition trains of horsed field
artillery, 16 horses; and divisional
! signal companies. IL horses.
| tc) When more than one unit is
/ located at the same armory the fol-
| lowing number of horses are allowed
! Two cavalry or two gun batteries. As
! horses; three cavalry troops or three
gun batteries. "a horses; four cavalry
! troops or four gun batteries, 80
horses: and five cavalry troops or five
| gun batteries. 90 horses. When two
| field artillery units other than gun
| batteries are located at an armory
! with one or more gun batteries, an
! increase of 16 horses will be allowed
| at that armory. When four are so
| located, an increase of SO horses will
| be allowed. No more than Sc horses
/ will be issued to any one armory.
Horses issued to several units at one
| armory should be divided up as
| equftably as possible among all the
\ units at that armory, so that each
| unit may have its own horses for use
outside of drill periods. All horses
at an armory will be under the con-
| troll of the senior officer assigned to
the units at that armory and under
| his supervision will be pooled for the
| use Of the different units during their
! drill periods They will also be pool
| ed for the purpose Of employing care
| takers. The method OF distributing
| the 2,445 horses will be announced
later