Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-19
District National Guard

the entire regiment is seriously affected,
| due to the lack OF room or hall large
enough for indoor drill and formations.
Under present conditions, all drills and
formations, from the squad to the regi-
ment, must be held out Of doors, and
even here there is no suitable area"
Almost every year a similar report has
gone forward about the local Guard,
yet little cogniZance Is taken OF 1t, and
the end is reached by placing the re-
ports in the files of the War Depart
ment, there to collect dust while Con-
gress fails to heed the 20-year-old pleas
for home The local outfit is helpless
in this respect, as the funds for new
building must be provided by Congress.
Of course, under a ruling of former
ATTORNEY General, if the T-U Building
is taken away from the Guard, then
the latter will look to the Public Build
ings Commission to find it additional
space. for certainly it cannot get along
with less.
The results of the annual inspections
recently held in the local Guard show
generally that the local organization
reached an average rating. Most of the
units were given very satisfactory
ratings by the inspectors, which the
local officers say they considered good
The inspection reports have all been
sent to the unit commanders for their
information. with special comment from
the brigade headquarters in some in
stances.
The following organizations were
rated very satisfactory: Headquarters,
goth National Guard Division; 260th
Coast Artillery: goth Division Military
Police Company: Headquarters Detach-
mert. Special Troops, goth Division;
Headquarters. Special troops, 29th Di-
vision; Headquarters Detachment, 29th
Division; Headquarters, 121st Engineers;
Medical Department Detachment, 260th
Coast Artillery; Headquarters, 260th
Coast Artillery; Battery A. 260th Coast
Artillery: Battery C. 26Oth Coast Ar
tillery. To the report of the last-named
organization, the inspector. Capt. Rob-
ert T. DAILY, appended the statement
that he considered the organization an
excellent National Guard battery.
Those rated as satisfactory were:
Company A. 372d Infantry; Headquar-
tiers. lst Battalion. and Headquarters. I'd
Battalion. 12lst Engineers: Companies
A. B. C. D, E and F. 121St Engineers;
Battery B. 121st Engineers; Headuuar-
tiers Detachment, 260th Coast Artillery.
Authority has been granted organiza-
ton commanders to consolidate the IN
oculation and vaccination of personnel
into two annual periods. one period be-
ing July and the other period being
the four weeks Immediately preceding
the annual Federal inspection OF the
organization concerned. The COM
manders of units have been ordered to
take such action as may be necessary
to insure all personnel not protected be-
ing inoculated and vaccinated during
the periods named in order that all
personnel will be protected during the
annual field training encampment and
at the time of the annual Federal in
spection. 1t is further ordered that en-
listment papers will not be held up
pending incubation and vaccination.
lation and vaccination must be made
in service records at the time they are
administered.
This will serve to relieve the medi-
cal detachment of performing this
duty every drill night, and will permit
them to give more time to actual
training, it was said.
Orders have been issued for a mobili-
cation of the local Guard early on the
evening of May % at the armories.
preparatory to a march to the Central
High School Stadium, where at GAS
o'clock it will be formed for ceremonies
incident to the acceptance Of trophy
from the District of Columbia depart
ment of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars. This trophy is being presented
to the local Guard, It was said, to be
annually competed for within the
Guard. The form of competition was
not disclosed in the orders The serv-
ice in this parade will be classed as an
armory drill
Although the assembly is ordered for
very early hour in the evening, it is
hoped that there will be very large
turnout of the guardsmen to partici-
pate in the ceremony At the same
time the people of the city will be
given an opportunity to see their citi-
zen soldiers on parade.
Sergt. Thomas A. McGaffin has been