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was such that
plans are being
formed to have a
second one in
training n e X MAJ. GEN. FRIES.
year.
Recommendation have been made
on several different occasions that
authority be given for the organiza-
ton of a second chemical warfare
unit, but up to this time it has never
been given War Department sanction.
There will be shown in the report OF
the Surgeon General of the Army
total strength of about 1880 in the
Medical Department Reserve Corps.
The strength Of the various corps or
the Medical Department Reserve IS
as follows: Medical Corps, 1887;
Dental Corps, ABB; Veterinary Corps
.041: Medical Administrative Corps,
,496: and Sanitary Corps, 497. rms
accomplishment, it is pointed out In
the war Department. is largely due
to the interest and zeal displayed by
physicians of the country in their EN-
deavor to attain the proper medical
service for the Army under generai
mobilization plan.
The number of physicians now en-
rolled in the Reserve Corps and avail.
able for assignment to units and
training. it will be observed, is less
than so per cent of the number which
will be required under the general
mobilization plan. 1t is the desire or
the Surgeon General that the medical
profession of the country be kept
fully informed as to the status of the
medical preparedness program. and
-,
military obligations of the medical
profession for the development of a
healthy Reserve Corps, swill result at
an early date in the successful frui-
ton of the War Department plans for
an enrolment sufficient to complete
the organization of units which will
be necessary for military service I'M
der the general mobilization plan.
It will be of interest to all Reserve
chaplains residing in Washington to
know that Army regulations govern
ing the chaplain school and the APP
pointment and promotion of chapla1ns
in the Officers Reserve Corps are in
the process of revision and publlca-
ton These regulations will be pub
lished as Army regulations 30O-l.5OO
and 140-25, respectively. The regula-
tions pertaining to the chaplains'
school have been printed and will be
distributed shortly, while the Reserve
Corps regulations, which have been
under consideration in the War De-
partment general staff, should be
printed in the near future.
Instructions have been issued by
SOth Division headquarters. of which
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all Reserve officers assigned or at
tached to that division and unassigned
Reserve officers residing in the 80th
Division area who have not been
ordered TO active duty training for
periods since June 80 will be given
an opportunity to attend camp. The
War Department has advised the
above Headquarters that not less than
SIS per cent of the funds allotted for
the entire fiscal year 1927 to the Sd
Corps Area, for the training of Reserve
officers on Is days active duty be
expended during the first quarter OF
the present fiscal year. In order 10
comply with the War Department in
Etructions. directions have been issued
that all officers assigned to the SOth
Division as we'll as those unassigned
officers residing within that divisions
area who have not been ordered TO
active duty during the present fiscal
year. will be given ample opportunity
10 apply for training prior to Septem-
Der Is, 1926.
Training will be- held for Is day
periods between July Is and Septem-
Der IS, except division headquarters,
which is between August 10 and ~,
as follows:
Assigned officers-Division head
quarters. location to be designated
later: Infantry, Fort Eustis, Va; Field
Artillery, Fort Hoyle. Nd; Engineers,
Fort Humphreys, Va; Air Service,
Langley Field, Va; Medical Depart
rnent, at. posts, camps and stations
under the Jurisdiction of Sd Corps
Area headquarters; Special Troops
Cless tanks), Fort Eustis, Va; Tanks,
Camp Meade, Nd
Those unassigned officers from
Washington who will apply for Is
days training duty between now ana
September Is, 1926. will undergo their
active duty instruction at the places
Observation-Disclosures Generals Depart
ment, Sd Corps Area Headquar-
fers. Baltimore: Air Service, Langley
Field, Va; Chaplains, Fort Eustis,
Va, or Fort Hoyle, Md; Chemical
Warfare Service, Edgewood Arsenal,
Md: Engineers, Fort Humphreys, Va;
Field Artillery, Fort Hoyle, Nd;
Finance Department. Fort Eustis or
Fort Hoyle; General Service, Fort
Eustis or Fort Hoyle; Infantry, Fort
AEustis. Va; Inspector Generals De-
partment, Sd Corps Area Head
quarters; Judge Advocate Generals
Department, Sd Corps Area Head
quarters: Medical Department, same
as assigned officers; Military Intelli-
,gence Department, Sd Corps Area
Headquarters; Military Police Fort
Eustis, Va; Ordnance Department.
Fort Eustis, Va; Signal Corps and
Quartermaster Corps, to posts, camps
and stations under the jurisdiction OF
Sd Corps Area Headquarters; and