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commissioned in the Summer of 1925
in the Air Service of the Organized
Reserves and selected for instruction
at the Air Service Primary Flying
School will be six months instead of
four. The 1926 training directive also
preScribeS that reserve officers may be
utilized as instructors at citizens mil
itary training camps in numbers up
TO one per 100 Citizens Military Train
ing Corps students, provided that to-
tai quota Of officers. both Regular
Army and Reserve Corps, with or
ganizations shall not exceed war
strength.
Next Summers training for units
of the Organized Reserves will be
conducted in accordance with para
graphs 5b. sc and ST of Army Regu-
1ations 140-5. Unit training on active
duty status will be conducted princi-
pally during the Spring and Summer
months. while individual training on
active duty status may be conducted
at any time throughout the year.
Training for members of the Reserve
Officers Training Corps will be con-
Quoted in accordance with Army Reg
ullations 1870 and 1880. and the
training programs for this section of
the reserves will he issued by the War
Department about January |. 1926.
ern the training Of the citizens mill
tary training camps. the programs for
which will be issued by the depart
ment January /. Additional officers.
including Individual reserve officers.
ordered TO citizens military training
camps as instructors will In all prob
ability be limited to those necessary
TO bring the quotas of officers for regi-
mental headquarters and combat or
,l.yat Ton 20 tr<r, ,rytt h
If the conversation heard at the
few inStructional assemblies which
have been held at the local reserve
headquarters, in the Graham Building,
is any criterion, there will be an over
whelming number of the local re-
servists who will be storming the
portals of the War Department for
proper authority to attend the 1926
training camps. Extensive efforts
will be made by the War Department
a I the approaching session of Con-
gress to impress upon the national
legislators the great Importance of
appropriating sufficient funds for this
purpose. and though the rumblings
of the Budget Bureau are disturbing,
IT is hoped that the pruning knife of
the director of the budget will not cut
TOO deeply.
Maj. Wilfrid NJ. Blunt. Cavalry
ID. o. L.. executive officer of the
306th Cavalry, announced this week
the 1925-1926 inactive training pro-
gram for officers of the 153d Cavalry
Brigade headquarters and Headquar-
ters Troop. Booth Cavalry Regiment;
l53d Machine Gun Squadron. 462d
Field Artillery battalion, 402d F,ngi-
neer Battalion and Cavalry unassigned
residing in the vicinity of Washing
ton. The correspondence courses have
been revised with u view of preparing
officers for promotion. Under the new
policy officers need take only those
courses which will prepare them for
promotion, and each successfully COM
pleted subcourse excuses him from
the written examination in that sub
ject in working for certificate Of
capacity.
Conferences on military subjects,
combined with instruction in the tacti-
cal employment of cavalry and It's
special troops, will be held monthly.
These meetings will be held on the
third Tuesday Of each month at re
serve headquarters, in the Graham
Building. The program which will be
taken up at these instructional as
semblies during the 1925-1926 season
is as follows:
At the first meeting, which will be
held October 90 Col Hamilton s.
Hawkins, Cavalry. commander of the
famous Sd Cavalry, stationed at Fort
Myer, will address the local Cavalry
reservists and associated officers on
the subject of the role OF cavalry.
Following the colonels address there
will be thrown on the screen a special
picture depicting the life of Riley"
prepared at the Cavalry School. and
which shows all the phases of horse
manship. Upon the conclusion of
this screen version Of the Cavalry
School activities Maj. Blunt will CON
duct a conference on the new regula
tionS and the work which will be
taken up this year.
At the November l. assembly there
will be taken up in conference the
duties and role of cavalry in war and
cavalry advance and rear guard.
Cavalry drill regulations. school of
the squad. school of the platoon and
school of the troop, will be studied in
conference at the meeting which will
be held December Is. The text to
be used will be Cavalry Training Reg
ulations. The tactical part of this
assembly to be taken up will be pa
trolling, which will conclude the
meeting.
The first meeting in 1926, which
administration. troop fund, mess man.
agement and property. Under tactics
the reservistS present at this meeting
will study a camp with outpost.
Animals, care. training and stable
management will be covered at the
conference to be held on February 16,
while combat by small units will COM
ning's program. officers attending
n
training regulations 1856 and 350-5
and War Department document 6O3.
Organization of the ground will be
taken up at the conference which will
he held on March 16, while the tacti-
cal part Of the program will embrace
reconnaissance. To be more familiar
with the subjects to be discussed at
this meeting, the reservists are re-
ferred to training regulations 1865.
1850, 195-20 and 195-25, and also
field fortifications cavalry SCHOOL,.
Map reading and military sketching
will be covered at the April 20 meet
ing, while under tactics the combat
of squadron and regiment will be
taken up. See training regulations
1905 and 190-10.
At the meeting to be held May Is
combat orders and solution of map
problems and terrain exercises will
be studied; also the estimate of the
situation. Pursuit and retreat will
compose the tactical part of this
meeting. Map maneuvers embracing
all arms will be taken up at the
concluding meeting Of the 1925-1926
program, which will be held on June
Is.
Beginning November Is the Sd
Cavalry, at Fort Myer, Va, will give
practical instruction in horsemanship
at am. every other Sunday Local
cavalry reservists desiring to take
advantage of this opportunitV must