Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-07
Call Attention
To Correspondence
School for Guard

Letters are being sent by Adjutant
General James V. Hanson to all Off
GERS and units Of the Maine National
Guard calling attention to the COR
respondence schools for 1862 as
announced by the War Department.
1--WE hope to get all officers of the
Guard interested in the matter, es-
pecially the field and staff officers
who do not have to attend drill reg
ularly,' declared Adjutant General
Hanson yesterday. The courses are
open not only to all commissioned Of
| f1cers but also to qualified enlisted
men if they so elect. Their purpose
| is to increase military efficiency and
they will benefit any officer. no mat
| ter what his grade. These courses
keep right up with the latest in war
fare and Keep abreast with the
changing regulations and methods"
General Hanson said yesterday
| that already several officers of the
Maine Guard have made application
to take certain of the correspondence
! courses offered.
The letter being sent out by Cen
eral Hanson to all officers and units
in the Maine National Guard read in
part as follows:
| AS q condition for qualification
for armory drill pay field and staff
officers not regularly assigned to
| company or administrative duties
will be expected to pursue a cores
pondance course appropriate to their
grade and branch unless in the opir-
ion of the commanding officer of
their regiment or similar unit duties
assigned them by superior authority,
he ~ lion of o.
schedules, orders. etc, will better
serve to advance the officers military
education. 1t is believed that the
pursuance of correspondence course
| will be more beneficial to officers oW
! field grade and certain staff officers
| than the attendance of drill each
week with one unit Of their organiZa-
! ton. It is suggested that in future
! battalion commanders will confine
! themselves to not more tina none WIS.,
| 1t per month to any one unit of their
| command and that staff officers not
regularly assigned to administrative
| duties take a correspondence course
! appropriate to their rank and assign
ment in lieu of armory drill atten-
dance with an organization except AT
such times as they may be ordered or
directed to attend with units by SUI
perior authority.
All commissioned and enlisted per-
sonnet are eligible for the Army cor
! respondence course and the school
wear as announced at from october /,
| 1926. to June 80, 1927. The following
! courses are available: Section I
| General information, list of texts and
application for enrolment. (Form
| 145) in duplicate. Section H-Adju-
| tant Generals Department. Section
/ III-Air Service. Section IV-Caval-
ry. Section V-Chaplains. Section
VI-Chemical Warfare Service. Sec
ton VII-Coast Artillery Corps. Sec
ton VIH-Corps of Engineers. Sec
ton IX-Field Artillery. Section y
Finance Department. Section NI-
Infantry and Military Police. Sec
ton XII-Judge Advocate Generals
| Department. Section XIV-Military
Intelligence Division, General Staff.
Section XV-Ordnance Department.
Section XVI-Quartermaste Corps.
Section XVII-Signal Corps. Section
kVIII-Command and General Staff.
| Under authority contained in in
structions from the Commanding
General, 1st Corps Area. the follow
| ing officers are designated as in
structors In the various courses:
Estate Staff Corps and Departments
| Except Quartermaster Corps and
Judge Advocate Generally Major
Wallace c. Philoon. Inf. Augusta,
! Me, 43rd Division Staff; Major Wal