The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-12
NJ ALL COURSES
WILL BEGIN.
IN ARMY
Reserve Officers Will Find
Correspondence Training
Much Improved, Claim

School yea: foR the army co
respondence courses for the ye;
1886. will begin October /. &c
ccrding to word received YESTERDAY
from the War Department. This
will be welcome news to The moro
than $500 reserve officers in tie
district of Columbia. 1t is believed
that a majority of Nhc local reserve
officers are students" of the
Eightieth division correspondence
school,
The courses will he different from
last year and ever ything viii be
materially improved. Reserve Of
fpers actively enrolled as students
June so, of this year, who did not
complete the sub-cOIrse upon which
they were working, will continue
the same sub.courSe with the new
class. Reserve officers who enroll
as students subsequently 'tt the
opening OF the school year will not
be required to do tie full annual
minimum of thirty.nine hours 20
maintain their enrolment. They will
De able to keep up their standing
in the courses by doing the pre-.
scribed annual minimum of enc
hour for each week of their enroll
ment.
Students on Active List
Students who were on the active
list on June /, will not have to
make a new application for enroll
ment, as they will be continued ss
active students on October I, and
will continue the sub-courses they
were working on. Eranch schools
for the reserve officers Of this city,
ali OF the Third Corps Area, will
Le conducted as follows.
Cavalry-Headquar of the
Sixty-second cavalry division. This
school is for all officers and men
of the Sixty-second cavalry division
and all cavalry officers in the
corps area of the reserve.
Field ery-Headquarters Of
the field artillery group. All field
artillery officers of the corps area
can take the courses conducted by
this school, The coast artillery
courses will be conducted from Fort
Monroe. and will he for all coast
artillery reserve officers and men
of the corps area.
AAAIAIdI IHtclllSSHCG - Assistant
chief of staff. Headquarters, Third
Corps Area. This course is for any
reserve officer of the military in.
telligence. Infantry courses will
continue to be conducted from the
headquarters of. the Eightieth di.
vision for the local officers. Local
reserve Officers not ASSIGNED or at.
tached to the division can take
the courses offered from the di.
vision just the same.
Funds Available
These schools will be divided into
sub-branches corresponding to the
services under the direction of the
commanding general, Third coast ar
tillery district, the chief OF staff on
duty with each division, and the
chief OF staff of the field artillery
group. The members OF the corps
area staff will handle courses re-
ferred to them by the corps area.
Suffic-en funds were availabla for
the purchase of text, books and
maps required fer the 1?35-26 course
lion over last year in the number
OF texts the student officer is re-
quired to purchase
number of texts for the coming
courses have been purchased by
using the fund for the establish
ment OF reserve unit libraries and
the fund allowed for army CORE
spondence course texts. AS a re-
suit of the use of the reserve unit
libraries fund one-half of the sup.
ply OF texts will be placed in the
libraries for loan to reserve off GERS.
whether they are enrolled for the
course'i or not. The rest will he
loaned through the proper channels
to students enrolled for the courses.