Evening star., 1925-06-14

are ordered to active duty for a period
| OF Is days, effective July 1, 1925, to
Carlisle Barracks, Pa; Maj. Joseph d.
Stout, Medical Reserve, is assigned to
General Hospital. No. rs. zone OF in
terror, in the capacity Of assistant
chief Of medical service: Second Lieut..
Del Ray w. Coleman, Infantry Re-
serve, is assigned to the 520th Infan-
try Battalion, zone of interior: First
Lieut.. George o. Smith, Infantry Re
serve, is assigned to the 521st Infan-
try Battalion, zone OF interior; First
Lieut.. Hugh H. Muir, Engineer Re-
serve, having been transferred to the
National Guard Reserve. Is relieved
from assignment to the National
Guard of the District Of Columbia:
Capt. Carl Witcher, Infantry Reserve,
is assigned to the 521st Infantry Bat
talon, zone Of the interior; First Lieut..
Joseph j. Seidler and Second Lieut..
Ralph L. Pau. botn. Fiefo Artillery
Reserve, are assigned to the Field
Artillery Group.
OF interest to both National Guard
and Reserve Officers in the dual COM
mission status. The commissioning of
National Guard officers in the Officers
Reserve Corps has to be initiated by
the officer by formal application and
Is not automatic. The Reserve Corps
commission runs concurrently with
the National Guard commission and
expires with the commission in the
National Guard. A National Guard
officer also holding commission in
the Reserve Corps on account OF his
National Guard status automatically
receives a commission In the higher
grade when promoted in the National
Guard.
The question Of relative rank. has
for its primary basis, the date of call
into Federal service and Is irrespec-
tive Of the date Of the commission held
in the National Guard or Reserve
Corps. In other words. the date Of
commission, either National Guard or
Reserve Corps, has no bearing on rel
ative rank II called into the Federal
service.
While the law calls, in case of draft,
for the commissioning of all officers Of
the National Guard, up to and includ-
ing the grade Of colonel, in correspond
ing grades in the Officers Reserve
Corps, II they do not already hold
such commissions, this does not be-
come effective until the officer con-
cerned officially accepts the commits
sion, and there will, therefore, be an
interim between the draft and the
formal acceptance of the commission
in the Reserve Corps, during which
time the National Guard officer who
does not hold a commission in the
Officers Reserve Corps will, legally,
be only in the position Of a draftee
and have no official status as an Off
Ger in the Army Of the United States.
1t Is of great advantage for all Off
GERS of the National Guard to hold
commissions in the Reserve Corps
and avoid all unnecessary correspond
ence and paper work in connection
Herewith in case Of a call or draft
into the Federal service, which Is en-
tirely up to the decision OF the officer
concerned. The chief Of the Militia
Bureau has expressed a desire, how
ever that all officers of the National
| Guard hold commissions in the Re
serve Corps.
In addition to the names which
have been published from week to
week in this column of The Sunday
Star, the following young men resid-
ing in Washington have filed their ap-
plication up to June for their at
tendance at the approaching citizens
military training camps to be held in
the Third Corps Area: c. p. Balder-
son, Garret d. Walters. Charles A.
May, Vincent H. Conner, Harry T.
Gherardi, Douglas w. Hartman, Hor-
ace " Wester. Charles T. A. Troff
John F. Hickey. jr.; John B. Under
wood. James c. Cheseldine.
Seventeen Infantry Reserve officers,
all residing in Washington, d. c., have
been ordered to active duty for a
period Of fifteen days, effective June
%, to Camp Meade, Md. On that
date the officers affected by this or
der will proceed without delay from