Evening star., 1927-05-29

Guard of the District or Columbi
while in the field during the cominl
encampments are beginning to come t
headquarters for approval. The f1rs
one to be made this year was that
the 29th Division staff. This was pre-
pared under the direction of Maj. Gen
Anton Stephan, commanding the loca
Guard and also the 29th Nationa
Guard Division, comprising the militis
OF this city and the adjoining States o
Maryland and Virginia.
The plans for this organization
which will go TO Camp Albert c
Ritchie, named after the present Gov
ernor of Maryland, located at Cascade
Md. provide for a series of field prob
lens in handling large bodies Of
troops. including problem which vii
take the officers Of the staff in the hel6
for "a hours, beginning at 5 pm. oi
August 90 and lasting until 5 pm. Au
gust %.
According to the schedule as laid
down by Gen. Stephan. the outfit Is
due to arrive in camp August IA, and
the following day will begin its real
work by completing the organization
of a skeleton division, including the as
signment of personnel and the organi
zation of staffs Of subordinate units,
The next Day will be given over to
the preparation of maps from partly
erroneous data and airplane photo
graphs. August 16 there will be ter.
rain exercise, which will involve an
encounter with the enemy" and the
officers will be required to get out the
necessary orders. The next two days,
also, will be given over to terrain ex-
ercises, including a division attack.
Sunday will be a day of rest, and Mon
day morning the staff will concern it.
self with command post exercises, and
on Tuesday will begin the 24-hour ex.
erCiSe, involving an attack by a divi-
sion which is part of an army corps.
After this strenuous exercise there
will be a day of rest, when there Will
be a problem of moving troops by
truck, and next a conference map
problem.
The division headquarters will pre-
pare program of exercises on Au-
gust 81 for the ensuing armory year,
end the organization will leave for
home August IS.
The plans and purposes to be ac-
complished at the annual encampment
of the 260th Coast Artillery, to be held
at Fort Monroe, Va. August ii to 2S,
have been received at brigade head.
quarters from Maj. Walter w. Burns,
commanding the organization. He
says that the objective of the organi.
zation this year will be to prepare the
firing batteries so that each may func-
tion as a unit during service practice
with harbor defense guns; to qualify
first and second class gunners, and to
give such unit and individual instruc-
ton as time will permit to enable the
units and individuals to take care Of
themselves in the field.
The following is the program: ar.
tillery drill and instruction, including
sub-caliber and service practice, forty
six hours; infantry, including inspec.
ton of equipment and battalion cere-
monies, ten and one-half hours; per-
sonal and social hygiene, one and one
half hours; first aid, three-quarters
OF an hour; care of equipment, one
and one-half hours; interior guard
duty, riot duty and military courtesy.
each three-quarters Of an hour, and
physical training, four hours.
He says that 1t is aimed except for
service practice and ceremonies to
have all strictly military drill in the
morning. The afternoon from 1:30 to
3 o'clock will be taken Up by mass
athletics and. games by the company
officers school. The second period Of
the afternoon from 8 o'clock to 4:30
will be given over. to recreation.
least one inter battery athletic com.
petition each afternoon, and an ath.
letic field NEE. the Friday afternoon
of the second week. Recreational
trips to Yorktown and instructional
trips to Fort Storey are to be pro-
vided, he says.
In view of the failure to obtain any
persons for the eligibility list for
second fieutenants of infantry in the
local Guard at the recent examination,
it was announced at brigade head
quarters that another examination
will be held about June IA. Only two
men took. the last examination, and
both failed, it was said at headquarters,
which is anxious for greater mum.
bed of enlisted men to take the next
examination. Applications for this
examination should be forwarded to
the Adjutant General, District of Co.
lumbia Militia, through military chan.
nelS.
For the first time since the last an.
nual encampment the Medical De.
tachment of the 121st Regiment of
Engineers reported in this week with
sufficient names on its rolls to bring
1t up to the strength required by the
War Department for maintenance.
This was effected By transferring
seven men from the resk Eve list to ac-
tive duty with the unit, Company F's
name also disappeared from the be-
low-strength list this week, because of
the fact also that it transferred a
number of it's reserve hAen to the ac-
tive list. However, two organizations
in the Guard are still below the re.
quired maintenance strength. They
are Company A, 121st Engineers, and
the Goth Military Police Company.
Battery c of the 260th Coast Ar.
tillery heads the list of Guard units
in the matter of attendance last week,
with a percentage of 80.40. The other
organizations in their relative order
and percentages of attendance follow
Battery A, 260th Coast Artillery.
1853; Headquarters and Service Com.
pany, 121st Engineers, SO. "a: Company
121st Engineers, 1894; Company d,
12Ist Engineers, 65.5S; Band, 121st En-.
gineers, 61.77; Company A, 372d In
fantry 56.46; Company E, 121st Engi
neers, 56.26; Battery B, 260th Coast
Artillery. 55.77; Headquarters De.
tachment, 29th Division, 5000: Head
quarters Detachment, Special Troops
18th Division, 5000; Company f. 121st
Engineers, 1890; Company B, 121st
Engineers, 1867; 10Th Military Police
Company, 5000, and Medical Detach
ment, 121st Engineers, Is.
Private Ralph F. BARLEY, Quarter
master Corps, attached to the State
Staff Corps and Departments, has
been ordered promoted to the grade oi
corporal.
Private Thomas l.. Thorne. upor
recommendation of the commander o
Company A, 121st Engineers, has beer
ordered promoted to the grade Of cor
poral.
Upon the recommendation of tn,
2nIipO nH7ner of COnnanv II