Evening star., 1924-08-16
GUARD GETS REST
FROM HARD WORK
District Engineer Regiment
at Camp Humphreys Gains
> Praise of Regular Officers.
By a Stan Correspondent.

By Stan Correspondent.
FORT HUMPHREYS. Va, August
16.-After a week of intensive train
ing. full of drills in heavy engineer
ing work in the field. the troops of
the 121st Regiment Of Engineers, Ma
tional Guard Of the District of Columbia,
Col. John A. Oehmann. commanding. are
enjoying a well earned rest. They
have worked long and hard, and their
spirit and efficiency has brought forth
almost daily concentrations of not
only the regular officers assigned to
them for instruction purposes, but
from the officers and enlisted men of
the regular garrison here.
The troops were on the parade early
today, participating in the mass
games, few minutes of real play
which has taken the place of the
usual calisthenics. in the daily rou-
tine, to Timber the troops up for a
hard days drill.
noon is a holiday, the troops were not
sent out into the wilds of this camp
today for any OF the heavy engineer
ing work they have participated in
during the week, but were given close
order drills in platoon formation for
a short period today.
Then they went to their barracks
and prepared for battalion inspection.
The two battalions of the regiment
were inspected by Maj. Oliff and Maj.
Mickey, battalion commanders, and
the inspection showed the effects of
a week in the field, as the troops and
equipment were in the best of shape.
Officers Pleased with Result.
Col. Oehmann and the other men,
bers of the command expressed them
selves as very much pleased with the
result of this encampment today.
They are pleased with the spirit
shown by the troops and the earnest
ness with which they have entered
into the exercises each day. There
have been no cases reported requiring
disciplinary action.
Each morning Col. Oehmann has re-
qufred every officer of command to
turn out for reveiile, being present in
the company streets with their or
ganiZations.
There will be no formal parade at
retreat this afternoon, and the guard
mount will be informal. The officers
and men will be free to use their
time as they see At, getting a much
needed rest for the strenuous program
next week by Maj. w. E. r. Covell.
y: 3. A., Instructor, assigned to the
District unit. .s..-
Field Meet for Afternoon.
Under the direction of Chaplain A.
L. Smith, a field athletic meet Is being
held this afternoon in the large field
adjacent to the barracks section. The
local troops have prepared the field
themselves, and a number Of them
have signed up for the various
events, which include running races,
wall-scaltng, base ball games, etc.
The 121st Regiment of Engineers
yesterday afternoon was paraded in
honor of Col. Woodruff, United States
Army engineer officer. in command Of
this fort, who reviewed. Both Col
Woodruff and the other regular Of
ficers at the post spoke most highly
of the excellent showing made by the
District troops in this review, and
there also was much favorable COM
ment on the manner in which they
went through guard mount yesterday
afternoon. -
The officers of the 121st Engineers
will give a dance at the hut here
next Friday night, to which the officers