Evening star., 1927-10-30
District National Guard

! Course d will be fired in all of the
! matches and the prizes will be: First
| place, gold medal: second place, silver
medal, and third place, bronze medal.
The Army rifle. caliber 80 model of
1908, with a trigger pull of not less
! than pounds, will be used, together
with service ammunition as issued at
the firing point on the day of the
matches. The time limit will be one
| minute per shot. slow fire.
Capt. Arthur c. Newman, command
ing the company, has been designated
as executive officer of the matches.
and he has been directed to designate
officers of his command to act as
range officers.
A strenuous training program has
been laid down for the 260th Coast Ar
tillery for the drill year of 1929,
eliminating at the encampment to be
| held next year, by Second Lieut..
James NJ. Votava, a training officer of
| the battalion.
Nineteen hours are given to Artil-
| lery training, six hours to care of
arms and equipment and once each
month a half hour to supervised care
! of arms and equipment, eight and a
| half hours to craftsmanship and
eight hours to ceremonies, including
| ten minutes required for assembly at
each drill. A non-commissioned Off
GERS school will be held for Is minutes
preceding each armory drill period.
| All officers have been directed to
take the correspondence course pre-
scribed, and they will be required to
| meet at 7:30 each Thursday night for
| officers school.
Pvts. T. l.. Thorne and Il. Della
| hanty, Company A, 121st Engineers,
| have been promoted to the rank of
corporal in the same command.
Sergt. Percy Cumberland. Head
quarters and Service Company, 121st
Engineers, has been reduced to the
grade of private at his own request
and Pvt. first class James p. Quigley
has been promoted to the rank of
corporal.
The following promotions in Com
pany f, 121st Engineers, have been
ordered: To be ergeants-Corp. Viii
liam D. Putnam and Pvts. Edward l..
Borlik and Lloyd T. Needs. To be cor
porals--Pvt first class Marion w.
Chinn and Pvt. Merrill ID. Reich.
The following reductions have been
ordered in Company A, 121st Engi-
neers: Corps. n. l.. Peterson and w.
/ JUIeS 10 pIlNdlSS tili iSeISlS. beOISe
B. Martin and William r. Lane to
| privates in Company +, 121st Engi-
neerS.
| Pvt first class Francis F. Cole, at
| his own request, has been transferred
| from the Headquarters and Service
! Company to Company A, 121st Engi-
neerS.
| Pvt. Charles c. Maggie, Head.
quarters and Service Company, 121st
/ Engineers, has been honorably dis
charged to permit him to enlist in the
Regular Army.
The following was the standing of
units of the Guard as to attendance
| last week: Superior-Quarterm ster
| Corps detachment, 100; Company f,
| 121st Engineers, 90.17. Excellent
Band, 121st Engineers. S85S; Head
quarters detachment, 260th Coast Ar
tillery, S0.96. Very satisfactory-Bat
| terry G, 260th Coast Artillery, 77.36;
| Medical Department, 121st Engineers,
1913. Satisfactory--Headq de-
tachment, 29th Division. 64.S7; Com
pany D., 121st Engineers, 1924; Head
quarters and Service Company. 121st
Engineers, 61.77; Company G, 121st
Engineers, 60.62; Company A, 121st
Engineers, 6032. Unsatisfactory
Company E, 121st Engineers, 5S.9S;
Battery A, 260th Coast Artillery, 5S.1S;
Battery B, 260th Coast Artillery, so;
| Headquarters detachment, special
| troops, 29th Division, so. Very unsat.
isfactory-29th Military Police Com
pany, 46; Company B, 121st Engineers.
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