Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-08

across the Highway Bridge, in Virginia,
and Is for the ofilcers Of the various
services.
The maximum strength for the local
Guard has been fixed at 921 enlisted
men, in orders just issued by brigade
headquarters, and the limit for each
unit Is given as follows:
State stan, 10; Headquarters Detach-
ment, 29th Division Special Troops, z;
Headquarters Detachment, 29th Divi-
sion, Al; goth Division Military Police
Company, SO: Medical Department De-
tachment, 121St Engineers, 81; Head
quarters and Service Company, 12lst
Engineers, including band, OF; Com
pany A, 12lst Engineers, So; Company
B, 121st Engineers, 66; Company G,
12lst Engineers, 81; Company D, 12lst
Engineers, 70: Company e, 12lst Engi-
neers, 20; Company r, 12lSt Engineers,
Sc; Medical Department Detachment,
260th Coast Artillery, 10; Headquarters
Detachment, 260th Coast Artillery, 20;
Battery A, 260th Coast Artillery, So;
Battery c, 260th Coast Artillery, So, and
Company A, 372d Infantry, 10.
Commissioned officers are authorized
for each unit in numbers not exceed
ing those authorized by the Militia Bu-
reau tables of organization for the unit
concerned. The order specifies that
enlistmentS to fill vacancies caused by
separation from the active list only will
be made in units which are now at
the strength prescribed. Units will not
be allowed to exceed the strength desig-
mated In the order unless prior author.
ity is obtained from brigade headquar-
tiers. The order enjoins unit command
ers to keep on the rolls of their re.
spective organizations only such per-
sonnet as is active, and whose attend
ance can be secured in order that there
will not be carried on the rolls person.
mel which should be eliminated.
STAFF Sergt Albert r. King has been
relieved Of duty as color sergeant of
the 121st Regiment Of Engineers and
assigned to duty as sergeant major,
Isl, Battalion. Sergt. John B. Coffman,
jr., Headquarters and Service Company,
has been appointed color sergeant in
the place of Sergt. King.
Corpl. Arlington Comstock, Head
quarters and Service Company, has
been promoted to sergeant and assign
ed TO regimental headquarters, 121st
Engineers, as personnel sergeant.
Pvt. Lester e. Oliff, Headquarters and
Service Company, 121st Engineers, has
been ordered promoted to corporal and
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regiment.
Corpl Arby C. Pyles has been pro-
NOTED to sergeant In Company A, 12lst
Engineers, upon recommendation Of the
company commander.
The following reductions have been
ordered in Company F, 121st Engineers:
First Sergt. Adam @. Mouton, Sergt.
Paul Worksman, Corpl Raymond e.
Landon and Corpl. Richard H. Corco-
ran, all to the grade of private. The
the same unit: Private, first class, Boil
var B. Bulla and Pvt. George P. Chand-
Ter to be corporals.
The War Department has announced
that a course for National Guard and
Reserve officers will be held each year
at the Command and General Staff
School, Fort Leavenworth, Kans. This
course Is for three months duration,
commencing in the middle Of March
number of National Guard officers
which the Militia Bureau will be able
to send to this course each year depends
on the funds available.
The following qualifications for de-
tail to the course are desirable and,
where other considerations do not pre-
clude, will govern: Officers must have
complete subcourSes /, 2, and of
the correspondence course. command
school. If not completed before max
ing application, statement must be in
Guided that they will be completed be-
fore opening date of course. Oficers
should be less than IS years of age, with
at least 10 years Of commissioned Serv-
ice This, however, does not apply to
general officers. Preferably they should
be assigned to tactical divisions in the
capacity of division or brigade COM
rnander, chief of stan. GIL, 2, 8 or 4, or
regimental commander.
It is the desire of the Militia Bureau
to detail officers preferably from divi-
sion STATS, but qualified cavalry officers
also may be selected to attend. All ap-
plications of eligibles to take the course
should be forwarded to the State adju-
tant general, for forwarding to the
corps area commander not later than
October / of each year. Applications
must show afflrmatively possession of
the necessary qualifications and any
others that under this particular train
ing would enhance the applicants value
to the division. Where a division is de
vided between more than one State
the adjutant general of the State In
which the application originates should
forward the same to the adjutant gen.
eral Of the State In which the division
headquarters is located. In all cases
the principal and alternates should be
indicated in order of priority Corps
area commanders are expected to for
ward all applications to the Militia Blu
reau not later than october Is each
year.
It is explained that subcourse 1, COM
mand and general staff course, is a brief
review of military organization, methods
of map problem solution, map reading,
field fertilization and tactics and tech.
niQue of the separate arms; subcourse
2 covers solution of tactical problems,
methods of arrival thereat and OF i'm
parting instructions to troops by means
Of combat orders; subcourse 8 covers
tactical principles and subcourse COW
texts of all four Of these subcourses
may be obtained upon application to
the corps area headquarters TO be en-
rolled In the courses.
Pvt. Robert N. Brumbach, Company
r, 121st Engineers, has been honorably
discharged on account of minority.
Pvt. Norman l.. Hoist has been trans
ferred from the Reserve to the active
list Of the Headquarters and Service
Company. 121st Engineers.
Pvt. william L. Simmons, Medical
Department Detachment, 121st Engi-
neers, has been honorably discharged
on account of removal from the Dis
trict
The following have been transferred
from the active to the Reserve lists of
their respective organizations for the
reasons stated: Business interference
with the performance of military duty,
Pvts., first class, Leon A. Knight, Head
quarters Detachment, goth Division.
and John j. Burroughs, Company D.
121st Engineers.
Educational interference: Pvt. Benja-
man s. Simmons, Medical Department
Detachment, 121st Engineers.
Temporary removal from the District:
Pvt. James A. Dorsey, Headquarters and