Evening star., 1926-04-18

! When the organization Is completed
! it will consist of Is officers and 36
enlisted men.
! There are 80 aviation officers now
| assigned to the local Reserve, about
half of whom are in the Fleet Reserve
! and the remainder in the Volunteer
| Reserve. However, ii is Xpected that
when the organization of the unit is
, completed that the quota in the Fleet
! Reserve will be increased by transfer
of some of the officers in the Volun
| teer Reserve
There is no provision now for any
| OF the enlisted men TO be in the Fleet
| Reserve but it was said that when
! funds become available, on July
next. the men now enlisted will be
! transferred TO the Fleet Reserve
Those in the Volunteer Reserve do
not receive any pay for the drills they
! attend.
At the present time those officers
| actively engaged in drills at the Navy
Yard Armory are studying air naVi
| cation. but are doing no ground work.
| When the organization is completed
| this quota of officers will be given a
| special schedule of training. in which
Ithe enlisted personnel will be included
The division this Summer will re-
CeiVe much of its field training at the
4N"iNtli -hii OttIllOli III NIitIt
the Reservists Will be allowed the use
of the hydroplanes there to engage in
! their drill work. Authority already
has been given by the Navy Depart
ment for this work
This is the first time since the war
that the local Reserve has been as
signed an aviation unit, which indi-
Gates the growing importance of this
| branch of the service to the Navy.
While a number of aviation officers
have been attending drill with the line
officers OF the local battalion. they
have been receiving absolutely no air
training.
The transfer Of the aviation officers
! from the quota of Fleet Reserve Off.
GERS now doing line duty with the Re
serve may, perhaps, permit the addi-
ton of other officers of the Volunteer
| ReserVe, who do not now receive pay
for their drills
There is a growing interest in naval
aviation here, and a number of in
quiries have been received as to the
possibility OF joining the Reserve for
aviation duty, so that it is hot eX-
pected that there will be much diff
Guilty in recruiting the SO enlisted men
for this purpose, and thus completing
The organization Of the division.
Changes in the dates for the. three
annual cruises of the local ReServihts
aboard the L. :. destroyer Alien, their
training ship, now at the Washington
Navy Yard, have been received at the
headquarters, il WAS announced. The
cruises, instead of beginning in the
middle of the week, as previously or
dered. will all begin on Saturday.
1t was announced also that the di-
visions will mako their cruises >iu ac-
cordance with their serial numbers.
The First Division will make the
cruise beginning July =. the Second
Division the cruise beginning July ~
and the Third Division the cruise be
ginning August "a. Whether the men
of any OF the divisions who are UNI
able because of their civil employment
Ia make the cruise of their rcSpe ctiVe
divisions will be allowed to cruise with
the other divisions has not been de
cided. it was said, but win he taken up
as soon as any applications for trans
fer are received,
The port which the ship will touch
for its week end liberty in the middle
of the cruise has not bccn decided
upon, but the commander a tn de.