Evening star., 1926-10-03

reserve activities
for the 1926-7
school year Maj. Mai. A. :. J. Tucker.
r. =. Lemly, In
fantry, senior executive officer or tne
Washington Reserves. is now on sick
leave. but he will be back to duty In
the Graham Building tomorrow.
MANY Reserve officers have advanced
one or more grades, it is pointed out,
without actual experience in the grace
they now hold, and as changes are
constantly taking place in both ma
terial and methods, 1t is imperative
that if the Reserve Corps is to become
an efficient and effective force IN tlme
Of war it's membership must be pro
vided with and make use of the most
approved training agencies. Attend
ance at instructional assemblies, Re-
serve Officers Association meetings.
enrolment in correspondence courses
and active duty. or attendance at an
Army Service School are the means
whereby the reSerVists solve the prop
lem Of keeping professionally fit. The
regular officers on duty at the local
Reserve headquarters are mlndtul OF
the fact that il takes a cOnSlderable
part Of a Reserve officers time to keep
abreast of the times, but Maj Lemly
and his staff of regular instructors on
duty at headquarters have amnltlous
plans to make Washington nave the
most efficient and best trained Reserve
units in the entire Organized reserve
structure In addition to Maj. Lemly,
there will be five additional Regular or
hcers. who will devote their full time to
the local Reserve affairs, as folioWS:
Mais. Albert S. J. Tucker, Infantry, as
sistant executive; Roland l.. Gaugler,
Ordnance Department, adjutant; sam
|. McCants. Infantry. contact ofncer'
i oil AI-ft
executive 496th Field Artillery, ana
Can't. James B. Golden, Field Artll- |
Ierv. executive. 3l3th Field Artillery.
Though Mai Woodward has been on |
duty in the Graham Building only
few weeks local Reserve officers Will
be interested to know that he received
his promotion from captain 10 MS
ma ioritv on September 10. and that ne
will cooperate with Capt. Golden IN
the instructional assemblies OF the TO-
cal Reserve Field Artillery units |
Prior TO his assignment to the local
headuuarters Mai. Woodward was on
duty with the 9Th Field Artillery at
Fort Hoyle Md. The two part-time
officers who will assist In the lnstruc-
tional assemblies at the current as
semhlies are Capt. Harris Jones, En-
gineer Corps. executive. 343d Engi- |
neers and Capt. John V. Rowan,
Ouarterma Ster'S Corps, executive,
Quarterma ster units
AS indicated below. radical de-
parture has been made in the IN
structional assembly schedule. Last
wear meetings were held nearly every |
night in the week. 1t is true there
were some evenings last year tor
which nothing was on the inStruc-
tional schedule. but they were few
indeed. AS will be noticed. the as
-, 1x-ill ha hold
the first three days Of the week-that |
IS. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. |
with the lone exception OF the |
Medical Corps. which will hold its /
meetings on the fourth Saturday OF
each month in the Medical Science
Building, 1901 I street. On the first
Monday Of every month Air Service |
aud Cavalry Reservists will hold |
their assemblies in the Graham |
Building, Signal Corps Reserve Off |
GERS will meet on the second Monday |
while Chemical Warfare Service and |
Chaplain Reservists will meet on the
third and fourth Mondays. respec-
lively Local Ordnance Reservists
will gather at the Graham Building
on the second and fourth Mondays,
while those of the Qaurtermaster
Corps will meet on the second and
fourth Wednesdays. Reserve Off
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meet on the second Tuesday of every
month at the finance school, while |
those of the 320th Infantry will hold |
their assembly on the second and |
fourth Tuesday of each month. The |
Washington branch of the Reserve
Officers Association of the United |
States will meet on the first Tues
day of every month at the auditorium
of the Interior Department Building !
meet on the second Wednesday in |
the boardroom of the District Build |
ing, while the 313th Field Artillery |
will hold its instructional assembly |
on the first and third Wednesdays |
of each month. instruction in equita- |
ton for Cavalry Reserve officers of |
Washington will be held on the sec |
ond and fourth Sundays, while that |
for the Field Artillery ReserVlStS |
will be given on the first and third |
sundays No doubt this will be held |
at Fort Myer, in the riding hall, as |
Il was last year. to begin, in all prob |
ability, at 8 o'clock in the morning. |
Notices will be sent out by Reserve |
headquarters as to the date of the !
first ride. The 42Sth Infantry will |
meet on the first and third Tuesdays. |
Sand table instruction will play |
very important part in the inactive |
training of the Washington Reserve !
officers this season. This method of
instruction is, according to the views
of Maj r. p. Lemly, senior executive !
officer of the Washington Reserve |
units, not only sound, conclusive and |
easily assimilated, but it is highly en- |
tertaining. Not only must this indoor |
instruction during the Winter months |
be practical, but in order to keep the |
interest of the Reservists. it must be |
presented in an entertaining way, and
the sand table problems, in the opin- |
ION of Maj Lemly. will be the means
by which the local Reserve officers
will improve their professional fitness
during the next eight months.
For this work. three new sand Ia
bles have been provided at the head |
quarters in the Graham Building, so
that three problems can be conducted
at the same time if desired. Under
this system, the actual terrain of the
ground is produced on a modified
scale, and roads woods. rivers and
streams are appropriately marked. 1t
is the most interesting form of in |
Etruction and no doubt will prove