Evening star., 1927-10-30

the various duties toi. L. w. hctFon
and functions of their office for i'm
mediate field duty. The third confer
enre of the Field Artillery officers re
siding In Washington will be heit
next Wednesday evening at Reserve
headquarters. the subject of whicf
will be liaison. (See section II, Train
ing Regulations, 43o-105; Field Artil
lery School notes.) There will also b'
taken up at this meeting terrain
board firing and axial time bracket
the text on which is paragraphs Zes
and 2S6 of Training Regulations, 4oo
s..
The other subjects of the local Field
Artillery conference and the dates on
which they will be held are: Novem'
Der 16-Field Artillery ammunition
and ammunition supply. see section
IS. T. r., 430-105: terrain board firing
and axial time bracket. paragraphs
2S7 and 2SS. T. r., 430-S5. This same
Training Regulations will be used
throughout the training program, SO
only section. paragraph and page
reference will be given. December
Use of instruments and firing
tables, pars 20 to % and "a. T. r., 80
20, and pars. 50 to 62 and 299 to 301.
December 21-Elements of trajectory
and use of the dispersion scale, pars
] TO II, IS to 80, 40 to Al, AZ to AZ,
81 to 56. and 302 and 303.
Beginning January the local Field
Artillery reserv:sts will start off with
the preparation of fire and forming
the sheaf, pars SO to %, ia to lis.
III to 1877, 1874 to 40; and pars. % to
35. T. R., 1907. January 1S-Prepara'
ton of fire: rapid methods. pars. 165
TO 1863. Ill to 179. 18S to 1874. Febru-
ary l-Preparation of fire; deliberate
methods pars 10S. 100 to 1873, 159 to
164, 310 to 311, and lateral percussion
precision, pars. 222 to 237. February
15-Observation of fire, pars. 1875 to
221, and pars. PIT and 27S. March l.
. Conduct of fire and percussion pre-
cision. pars. 254 to 276, 293 to 294,
and pars. 3S. 80, Is and II, T. r.,
430-70. March 15-Conduct of fire
and percussion bracket, pars. ESQ TO
2S2, 295 to 29S. April 5-Conduct of
fire and time bracket, pars. 2S4 to
2S9, and 299 to 301. April 19-Con-
duct of fire, pars. 222 to 1877 and Alb.
May s-Conduct of fire, pars. 277,
27S. 2S3 and go. The subject of the
concluding assembly of the year, to be
held on May IS. will be fire in battle
and successive concentrations and de-
fensive barra ges. pars. 305 to 307. 356
to $50. 3G1 to 364. In all Of the in
structional conferences the first hour
will be devoted to the assigned confer
ence and the last 80 minutes to terrain
board firing.
In an announcement made last
week Maj. Gen. Douglas Macarthur,
commanding general of the 80
Corps Area, officially opened the 1927
28 correspondence school year for
Reserve officers residing in the Dis.
trict of Columbia. In his message
to Washington Reserve officers Gen.
Macarthur pointed out that there is
no easier way to get the credit re-
ouired under the War Department
policy. governing the reappointment
of Reserve officers than by means of
the correspondence courses.
Instructions have been issued to
the commanding officers of the 317th,
S1Sth, 319th and 320th Infantry regi-
ments, to which large number OF
Infantry Reserve officers are assigned
to submit to S0th Division headQuar-
ters not later than January "a the
names of four Infantry Reserve Off
GERS, two as principals and two as al
ternates, who may desire active duty
training at Fort Benning, Ga, for at
tendance at either the rife or machine
gun course conducted at the Infantry
School, from February "a to May %
1928. The officers who will be rec
commended by Lieut.. Col. John v
Richards. who has assumed comma nd
of the 320th Infantry, the District
of Columbia regiment, will be Of a