Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-04

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to keep in their minds the military
Information they gathered during
their various encampments.
Glasses and drills were started
promptly. and the 121st Regiment of
Engineers has undertaken an inten-
sive drill schedule, mapped out by
Lieut.. George Hardin. regimental
plans and training officer, along the
line of the plan which he mapped out
for it before the annual encampment
and which kept it necessarily at work
during the entire period.
This schedule, which brought forth
praise and comment from the other
officers of the regiment. provided
something for every daylight hour of
the encampment, and al a glance each
company commander could tell in
stantly what his unit was supposed to
be doing on a given day and what was
in store for him for future days. The
schedule was carried out without a
hitch, and, in fact, it worked so
smoothly that the regiment was able
to keep ahead of it.
During the fair weather of the re-
mainder of the Summer and the com.
ing Fall the troops will be able to get
in some of their drills in the open
courts between the Government hotel
Winter comes the organizations will
have to contlne their efforts to the
school training system entirely, using
the small rooms in the building as
signed as an armory as class rooms.
This armory condition is proving a
serious handicap to the local Guard,
and there is again this year the very
strong hope that Congress may be
made to see the situation as it exists
and that it is difficult for the local
Guard to maintain its efficiency under
such conditions. In its field opera tons
1t brought forth praise from the Regu-
lar Army officers who We're with
them because of the efficient manner
in which they performed their duty
and placed in use the military knowl-
edge obtained almost entirely from
books under conditions which would
even handicap regular organization.
The matter of an armory will again
be brought strongly to the attention
OF the coming Congress by the Off
Gals of the Guard. who will point out
that the local Guard, above all others,
should have model armory, as it is
under the Federal Government en-.
tirely, and the latter should set an
example for the State Guard by pro-
viding facilities which it expects the
Just across the line, in Maryland, it
was pointed out, that State is provid.
ing attractive armories. built espe-
cially for the training of State troops
ana Tor their entertainment. while in
the National Capital the Government
is turning a deaf ear to the incessant
appeals for at least fair facilities un.
der which the men may be trained for
the field, for the service to the country
In time of a national emergency,
when. under the present system of or
ganization, the Guard becomes a part
Of the first line of land defense.
The following board of officers has
been appointed to examine into the fit
ness of certain members of the Engi.
neer Regiment and to report as to
their happiness and inadaptability for
the military service: Mai. Julian s.
DIN, commanding the I'd Battalion of
Engineers; Capt. William l. Mushake.
commanding Company B, and First
Lieut.. Joseph ]. Greenlaw, Medical
Department, attached to the State
Staff Corps.
Another surgeon has been added to
the Medical Department of the local
Guard. 1t was announced that DR.,
Joseph James Greenlaw has been
commissioned a first lieutenant in this
department and assigned to duty with
the State STAFF Corps.
Pvt. Ralph R. Beller. National
Guard Reserve, has been ordered to
the active list and assigned to Com.
pany c, 121st Engineers.
Pvt. Louis D'Abate, goth Military
Police Company, has been ordered
honorably discharged from the local
Guard to enable him to enlist in the
National Guard of Connecticut. The
order directs that his discharge Ger.
tlncate be sent to the adjutant gen.
eral OF Connecticut, to be held by that
official until the man completes his
enlistment in the Guard of that State.
The following members of COMPANY
A. 121st Engineers, have been ordered
placed on the reserve list of that or
ganization: Pvts. Nathan Luber, F.
p. Manion. w. E. Shipley and C. c.
Woodward.
Pvt. John Bradley has been ordered
transferred from Company c, 121st
Engineers, to Battery A, 26Oth Coast
Artillery.
The following promotions in the
Quartermaster Corps of the Guard
nave been ordered: Corpl Ralph r.
BARLEY and Pvt. Charles r. Drexilius
to be sergeants.
Pvt. first class John NJ. Crandall.
Quartermaster Corps, has been desig-
mated a first-class specialist in that
organization.
Because of their removal from the
District of Columbia, the following
members of the Guard. have been or.
dered hononably discharged: Pvts.
James NJ. Boyd and Robert w. Dick.
Staff Sergt. Edwin K. Mitchell,
Headquarters Detachment, goth Divi-
sion, has been placed on the reserve
list OF that detachment.
Pvt. first class) John G. May. Com
pany A, 121st Engineers, has been
honorably discharged from his enlist.
ment in the Guard in order to permit
him to accept promotion by commits
sion. He has been appointed a second
lieutenant of Engineers and assigned
to Company c, under Capt William F.
Jorgenson.
Upon recommendation of the com.
mander of the Medical Detachment of
the Engineer Regiment, the following
men have been ordered reduced to the
grade OF private in the same unit:
Sergts. William c. Freeman and Wal.
ter r. Stokes. The same order carries
the following promotions of men to
fill the vacancies created by the above
order: Pvts. first class Frank Beck
ert and Eugene S. Potter to be ser
geants.
1t was announced that the follow.
ing officers of the 260th Coast Artil
lery have been given commissions in
the Officers Reserve Corps: Robert
Theodore Daily, as a captain, and
James Mathew Votava, as a second
lieutenant of Coast Artillery. Under