Evening star., 1923-08-26
THE CIVILIAN ARMY
BY LIEUT.. STEPHEN F. TILLMAN.
Organized Reserves National Guard

orders were issued this week by the
commanding general of the sd corps
Area to the effect that MAJ H.
l.. Freeland, Medical Corps, now on
duty at Fort Bliss. Tex, has been or
dercd TO Richmond. Va, for duty as
surgeon of the S0th Division, vice
Mai. Herbert c. Mallory, Medical
Corps, who has been ordered to for
eigu duty. At the present time, Maj.
Mallory is with the S0th Division at
Camp Meade.
Mai Raymond A. Wheeler. Corps of
Engineers, has been detailed to duty
with the 343d Engineers. organized
reserves. this city, as executive ofhcer'
vice Maj. Max C. Tyler, Corps of En-
cineers, who has been transferred to
Florence, Ala.
Tho following men of the Enlisted
Reserve Corps are on duty at Camp
Meade with the training camp: Samuel
w. Glasmire, Master Sergt. Charles II.
Bradley, headquarters, and service OF
the 343d Engineers and Sergt. Bugler
Henry Loveless of the same regiment.
Mai. Gen. George c. Richards. chief
of the military bureau, War Depart
ment, has left on trip OF observation
of the various National Guard en-
campments which will be held in the
middle west and south during the
months of August and September. lie
will pay special attention TO the state
Of training, equipment and general
efficiency of the National Guard
troops.
Plans are already under way for
the correspondence courses for re-
i
l,crted that all the preliminareS in
rident to the organization of the
courses and enrolment of students
will be completed by the middle of
october. 1t is understood that the
work will be conducted under the di-
rection of corps area commanders.
who will employ the officers on duty
with the reserves for this work. The
authorized quota of officers for re-
serve duty is being completed from
among those officers returning to the
United States from foreign service
and will probably be completed before
rall. Each regiment or its equivalent
in non-divisional troops will then
have an executive officer to carry on
its official affairs and home training
work. Much experience was gained
from conduct Of the courses last year
that will be used to improve them in
he future. Every reserve. officer in
the service should enroll for the
course to which his status applies and
devote as much time as practicable to
II. He will be given credit for the
work that he does, be 1t much or
little.
Seventy reserve officers from the
District will break camp at Camp
Mead" today and return 10 their
homes, following fifteen days of field
training at Meade. The following
regular Army officers We're on~duty
with the S0th Division: Lieut.. Col.
j. T. Robinson, as chief Of staff; Maj
James II. Tierney, as executive officer;
Capt. stephan r. Tiffany, as adjutant:
Lieut.. Col. John Scott, as director of
training; Maj. William Horst. as
Mallory, surgeon.
The two girls who recently wrote
to the President with request for
girls citizens military training
camp. TO be run by the War De-
partment, have evidently become i'm
bued with the spirit of preparedness
for big things which the War De-
partment has tried to foster among
the young men and women of the
country. The citizens military train
ing camps not only provide amuse-
ment for long summer vacation, but
they give a training in citizenship, in
making young men fit for life as well
as war. and in preparedness for what
ever comes up. In an effort TO give
the graduates of the various grades
of training (the basic reds the reds.
the whites and the blues courses}, a
distinctive mark of their member
ship in the big new group to which
these men will belong. the War De-
partment has authorized the preSen-
tation of a lapel button of red. white
and blue, with the words, National
Defense. Citizens Military Training
Camps" Later those who have passed
the hie her courses Will receive
large button OF bronze. silver or gold,
with u distinctive design, upon which
artists and members of the War De
partment are now working. This
will insure them recognition for the
effort they have taken to make them
selves fit. in physical health and in
trimming, for helping in the protec-
ton Of the country when this IS
needed. II will be n sign of their
membership in the large group OF
ready -for-anything citizens. These
buttons will probably not be ready
tor distribution before next winter.
Lieut.. Col. Ashby Williams of the
10Th Infantry has had his resigna-
lion in the Officers Reserve Corps ac-
c.ptcd by the President of these
disa bility incident TO his war services.
Lieut.. Col Edward Davis. now head
of the plans and training division OF
the office of the chief OF cavalry. has
been selected for duty as executive
officer of that office. He will relieve
Col. George Vidmer from that duty
about September Il, when the latter
will go to New York city for duty
with the Organized Reserves. Lieut..
col. Robert McC. Beck. tr., lately on
duty as instructor at the Cavalry
school at Fort Riley, Kan. will be
assigned as head of the plans and
training division. Col. William J.
Glasgow. who recently was ordered
as 4 member of the General Staff
Corps and from duty as chief of staff
of the 1st Division at Fort Hamilton,
Y. T., and directed to report to the
chief of cavalry for duty in his office,
will be assigned as head of the per-
sonnel division. to take effect about
September 10, succeeding Col. George
L. Mitchell. who Will be transferred
70 the retired list October l. upon
his own application. Maj. Walton
Goodwin, jr. who has been on duty
ut the School of the Line At Fort
I.eavenworth. will be assigned to
duty in charge OF Reserve Officers
Training Corps matters in the office,
succeeding. Lieut.. Col. Henry T. Bull.
who will go to duty as a member of
the cavalry board at Fort Riley.
Col J. II. Pratt, Engineers Officers
Reserve Corps, has been ordered to
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