Evening star., 1928-05-20


| officers and men of Company E, l21S'
Engineers, last week, In letter writ
| ten by Mai. Gen. Greed G. Hammond
| chief of the Militia Bureau Of the
War Department, for their marksman-
ship, in winning the national trophy
ITO win the national trophy for ex-
| cellence in craftsmanship once Is q
! signal honor" wrote Gen. Hammond
but to have achieved this honor more
than once is worthy of the highest
commendation 1t is with much pleas.
ure that learn that Company E, l2lsi
| Engineers, District of Columbia Militia
| has Joined the very restricted list OF
organizations to which this honor mas
fallen. Your accomplishment is testl-
monial of the high standard OF marks
msnshiu training maintained in your
company. f..
You have set high standard Tor
other units of the District OF Columbia
Militia, They cannot but feel admira-
| iion for your work and will no doubt
| look to your record as one worthy OF
emulation. The successful result of
vour training during the past years
will nrobably render your future task
more difficult, in view of the eXceilen'
| evamnle it has created. In your future
efforts YOU will have many Determines
marksnen pitted against you VINO wiz
be striving to bring to their oreaniza-
tions a record such as you nave es-
| tab.iShed. -
.r.;ning of the company are equally
b,oh YOU can truly feel that your OF
canization is splendid one. ana u
cradif to the whole National Guaro.
~ wish to extend to the ottlcers ano
r,en of the company my sincere con-
cratulations and best wishes IoT ele
Continued high degree OF eXcelieilce
of Company E, l2lst Engineers.
The following enlistmcnts in the
Guard were reported to brigade head-
o,,arters during the week: Joseph l.
Nendelson, 300S P street, assignee 10
Headouarters Detachment 29tn Dni,
sion: Wesley Colville zhitmer' 1901
Harvard street, assigned TO Heaoqual, qoo.,,
ters Detachment, special troops, Sssis se
Division; Harold Doscher MCCOY, tIoo
G street. assigned to HeadquaTters De-
pollard. l7l8 Seventeenth street, as
signed to Headquarters Detachment,
2qth Division; William H. Mcneil, 5000
Windon place, assigned to 2eth Mill
tarv Police Company: Gatano Patrlzi
l4il Wisconsin avenue, assigned 10
29th Military Police Company: Frank
n. Berger. Y. NJ. C. A., assigned to Bat
terv c. 260th Coast Artillery; Maurice
Kaye, 1889 Sixteenth street, assigned To
Battery C, 260th Coast Artillery; Clar-
ence K. Brindel. Fifteenth and L
streets. assigned to Battery c.. 260th
Coast Artillery, and Eugene M Walker.
1918 Sixth street, assigned to Battery
A, 260th Coast Artillery.
The troops ot the local Guard are
now are undergoing their Semi-annual
uniform change. All troops have been
ordered to be in cotton by June /. This
involves considerable labor for the
supply departments, as all of the
woolen uniforms have to be turned in,
cleaned. treated for protection against
moths and stored. The cotton uniforms
have to be issued and fitted TO the
men. so far as that is possible with the
material at hand. 8
Reports to brigade headquarters In
dicate that the rife range Of the Guard
at Camp Simms. Congress Heights,
d. c., is being used more this year than
ever before. Last Sunday, it was re-
ported, every target was In use, and
the brigade squad. from which the Ma
tional Guard rifle team is to be Sc
lected. only had one target at its dis
posal. About $50 members of the
Guard used the range last Sunday.
Plans are being made at brigade
headquarters to send away next week
Tor the large amount of German war
trophies which have been allotted 10
the local Guard. Applications have been
coming in for some time for this ma
terial, but 1t was said at brigade head
quarters that there was still some ar
ticleS for which request has not been
made, and those desiring them may file
their applications by Tuesday.
The following promotions in the band.
l2lst Engineers. have been ordered
Corp. Walter l.. Redfield to be sergeant
and Pvt. William P. Kilgore to be
corporal.
Instructions for the number Of armory
drills to be held during the fiscal year
1929 have been received from the Sec
retary OF War and published, as fol-
lows: During the first and second
quarters, not to exceed "a FEDERAL nav
drills. During the third quarters, not
to exceed IL Federal pay drills In ad-
dition to any part of the "a drills not
held during the first, and second
quarters. During the fourth quarter,
not to exceed IL Federal pay drills, In
addition TO any part Of the 80 drills not
held during the first. second and third
quarters.
In no event will the number of drills
for which payment Is made with Federal
funds exceed eight In any one month,
or 10 during the fiscal year. for any
| organization OF the National Guard.
The first organization to send In its
training schedule for the annual en-
campment was the 12ist Regiment OF
Engineers, commanded by Col. John
W. Oehmann. The training objective,
| according to the report, Is the attain
| ment, In general, OF reasonable pro-
| ficiency In the basic training under
taken, and. In particular. the attain
ing Of reasonable proficiency In laying
out and constructing simple, military
field works, and in the building OF
| highway bridges: the acquiring OF q
| working knowledge OF floating bridge
methods, including the ability TO con-
struct RATS and serviceable floating
bridges, and, finally. TO be able to
| operate tacticaliy as infantry In emer-
| gencieg, with reasonable proficiency.
The allotment of time for the two
weeks OF camp at Cascade, Md, fol-
| lows: Entraining. detraining and max
| ing camp, 3 hours: breakin', camp. de-
training, 8 hours; engineer training, 80
hours: close and extended order drill
Is hours; bayonct drill. hours; inte-
rior guard duty, hour: drill contest
] hour; care of arms and equipment, 2
| hours; inspections. hours; ceremonies
0 hours; maneuvers, regimental hours
battalion hours: chemical warfare, /
hour; physical training, setting-up exer-
cises. 3 hours: supervised athletics, q
hours: officers school. IL hours. and
non commissioned officers school, II
| hours.
The schedule has been forwarded u
the Sd Corps Area headquarters. at Bal
timore, Md. for approval.
The following have been ordered
| transferred from the Headquarters DE.