Evening star., 1925-08-30

maintenance of the two Junior com
ponents of the Army of the United
States are carried out. Maintenance
of the National Guard at its present
strength. it is pointed out, will require
an increase of $1,000, 900 in the esti-
mates for the State forces over those
appropriations for the 1926 fiscal year.
In the event that the budgets program
is carried out, it will not only mean AZ
reduction in the number of armorI
drills and a shortening of training
camps but it will necessitate a COM
plete revision of the entire National
Guard structure.
The Organized Reserves and the Re
serve Officers Training Corps will be
hard hit if a reduction of 900 com
miSsioned officers is made in the regu-
lar establishment. Should this pro
posal be placed in effect. the abolish
ment of military departments in
number of educational institutions will
be threatened. At this writing the
War Department has on file the appli-
cations from over so colleges and
schools for military instructors, but.
due to the heavy demands now being
made on the Regular Army, the War
Department cannot meet the demands
from the colleges.
Under the program there will be a
reduction of about 10 per cent in the
undergo their Summer training. APP
proXimately 16, 800 reserve officers will
be trained under this years program.
but under the budgets program for
next year funds will be available for
the training of IA 900 or Is, 900 reserv-
lists Not only will the proposed cuts
hamper the training of the reserve
officers all over the country but il will
mean that a reduction will have 20 be
40 in no g,F -
serve units, due to the lack of Regu-
lar Army officers to serve with them.
The citizens military training camps
for next year will also suffer a reduc-
tion in the number of young men who
can be accepted for this 80 days train
ing. The total number of American
youth who were trained in the camps
this year was below the total figure
for 1924, and the budgets program
threatens a still further reduction for
next year.
Reserve officers throughout the
country are greatly concerned over
the drastic budget proposals, and by
the time the President returns to
Washington it is believed that he will
have heard from the country on the
subject and that the appropriations for
maintaining the armed citizenry of
the country will not be reduced to the
This week is given the professional
qualifications and tests required of
officers for appointment and promo
tion in the Cavalry branch of the Off
GERS Reserve Corps. In order to be
appointed to the entrance grade that
of second lieutenant a candidate
should have a high-school education
or its equivalent and have a general
knowledge of the nomenclature and
care of the rife. pistol and saber; the
characteristics of the machine rife and
machine gun; working knowledge of
the manual of the rifle, pistol and
Saber; the movements of close and eX-
tended order drill, to include the rifle
and the machine rifle platoon: the
principles of musketry; be familiar
with the conduct of scouts and
patrols by day and night, mount
ed and dismOunted: the combat
principles of the rifle squad and
platoon the proper care of indi-
vtdual equipment; physical training;
performance of interior guard duty;
Workmanship: materel, and signal
communications. In the practical tests
the candidate must demonstrate his
ability to command rifle or machine
rifle platoon in the execution of close
and extended order movements; com
mand a rifle platoon successfully in a
field problem involving tn applica-
tion of the principles of mus etry: he
must be able to apply the combat prin-
ciples of the rife platoon, and he
must qualify in equitation.
In going up for promotion to a first
lieutenant the candidate must, in ad-
dition TO the aforementioned qualifi-
cations for appointment to second
lieutenant, possess the following: He
must have knowledge of general
Army organization and a detailed
knowledge of cavalry organization; be
familiar with the customs of the serv-
Ice, courtesy and military discipline;
military hygiene and first aid: knowl-
edge of the fundamental principles of
law governing the administration of
military justice; organization of the
ground; administration: map reading
and military sketching: drill, and a
general knowledge of the care and
training of animals. stable manage
ment feeds and feeding and horse
shoeing. Under the heading of abil-
ity qualifications, the candidate must
demonstrate his ability to read map
accurately and rapidly and make
rough road and position sketches, and
he must be able to apply the principles
governing the care, management and
use of cavalry horses. In addition to
the above-described knowledge quail
hcattons, officers of machine-gun units
should have a working knowledge of
close and extended order drill, ma
chlne-gun mechanism, machine gun
craftsmanship, employment of ma.
chine guns, and he will be required to
demonstrate his ability on these sub
jeCtS.
The examinations to determine eligi-
bllIty toward a certificate of capacity
Tor promotion TO the grade of captain.
to be officers of rifle units, will be
limited to the following subjects. of
which they must have a working
knowledge: Combat principles: mess
management: troop supply; military
law; troop administration: methods of
training; organization of the brigade
and reSimental staffs. their general
duties and lnterrelationS and relations
with the troop comma nders: care and
training of animals and stable man.
aSement; loGistiCs; a knowledge of the
classes, forms and subject matter ap-
plying TO combat operations; signal
communications; organization of
ground; drill, and a knowledge of de-
tenslVe measures for the protection of
individuals and small groups against
gas. Ability qualifications include a
demonstration to command a rifle
troop in the execution of close and
extended order movements, both the
troop alone and in the squadron, and
70 apply the combat principles of the
rife troop.
Officers of machine-gun units going
up for promotion to captain will be
required TO have a knowledge of drill;
employment of machine guns, cavalry;
and the individual will demonstrate
his ability while on a field problem in
actual command of machinery
troop to apply the combat principles
nerta aiming to these subjects