Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-04
District National Guard

! taken care of during the remainder of
| the armory drill period, such as the
preparation of the necessary data and
paper work, which must be ready when
the soldier reaches the firing line.
Capt. Just G. Jensen, ordnance ofdcer,
State staff. will supply the necessary
working equipment for all exercises on
the range, and 1t is announced Will be
on hand with members OF the National
Guard rife team to give company COM
manders assistance through the various
stages of the drill.
A section of the program provides for
road work for the men, which will be
confined to work on the roadways with
in the camp. During this work 1t Is
directed that special attention is to be
given to the study of foundations, sub
grade, construction, and also to drain
age, which will involve the placing OF
simple pipe culvertS.
The program says that during the
current training encampment 1t Is
planned to construct standard unit Sec
lions of the more important devices OF
field fertilization. Three periods will
be given to the proper carrying out Of
the project, and an additional half
period to the construction of howitzer
emplacement. The thoroughneSs and
completeness with which the work Is
to be undertaken, the program says,
will offer an excellent opportunity to
apply standard methods of work and to
compare actual results against the es-
Inmates furnished in the training regu-
lationS.
In treating the subject the following
features will be accentuated:
Performance of work according to
standard practice; the necessity Of con-
sidering the INTERPRETATION and Coop
Grafton of the units involved; a realiza-
ton of the importance and inter-
dependence of the various devices made
use Of"
THE ability to visualize the COM
pleted work." commanders are reminded,
lis requirement of the successful unit
commander. Getting this general plan
over in a simpler form to every MEM
Der of his outfit, chiefly through those
in charge of any detail OF the work.
will arouse and sustain an interest in
the work undertaken. This is so neces-
sary for the obtaining of maximum re-
suits in training and in task execution"
Demolitions also will be an important
feature of the training. In addition
to their duty of constructing roadways
and bridges and earthworks for troops,
! they also have the duty OF destroying
them so that they cannot be used by a
pursuing enemy force.
| A feature of the encampment will be
the schools for the commissioned and
non commissioned officers The former
will have for its purpose the co-ordina-
ton of the work set for the following
day. The schools will be held during
the afternoon period of each day, except
Saturdays and Sundays. A part Of the
duty of the officers while attending the
schools will be TO prepare the armory
drill schedules for the period from the
close of the encampment on August q
| to December 81 next. These must be
completed before August 25.
The non commissioned officers school
| will be under the direction of the COM
pany commanders and also will take up
| the schedule for the day following each
session. The program also has detailed
blue prints for the construction Of the
various projects to be carried out by the
troops while IN the field.
Two organizations of the local Guard
had 100 per cent of their personnel pres
ent for drill last week, according to the
report of attendance compiled and made
public by the brigade headquarters
| They were the QuartermaSter Corps De-
tachment and the Medical Department
Detachment, 260th Coast Artillery. and
they were placed in the classification Of
superior" together with the band Of
the 121st Engineers, which had Gilt
of its personnel present.
The other units, in their respective
classiflcations, with percentages. follow:
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Detachment,
2sth Division, 1925; goth Division Mill
tary Police Company. SITS; Headquar-
tiers Detachment, 29th Division Special
Troops, $3.50; Company D, 12lst Engi-
neers, $3.50; Medical Department De-
tachment, 121st Engineers, 80.95.
Very NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and
Service Company, 121st Engineers, TAI;
Company B, 121st Engineers. 1918;
pany E. l21st Engineers, 7097; Battery
A, 260th Coast Artillery, 70.49.
Satisfactory-Battery c, 260th Coast
Artillery, GALS; Company A, 121st En-
neers, 5000.
Unsatisfactory-Battery B, 26oth
Coast Artillery, 1892; Company F, 12lst
Engineers, 5000. :
During the period covered by the re-
260th Coast Artillery, did not have o
drill.
Corp. Richard J. Costello has been
reduced to private In Company A. 121st
Engineers.
sergt Joseph L. Thompson has been
promoted to the grade Of stair sergeant
II.
260th Coast Artillery.
Private (frSt class Wilbur C., Ayers
has been promoted to sergeant In the
same unit to fill the vacancy made by
the promotion of Sergt. Thompson.
First Lieut.. Walter r. Stokes. Oficers'
Reserve Corps, who recently appeared
before an examining board of which
Maj. George j. Allen was president, has
successfully passed his examinations
and has been appointed a first lieuten-
ant in the National Guard Medical De-
partment. He has been assigned to the
Medical Department Detachment, 12Ist
Engineers. Of which he was for a mum.
per OF years member in the enlisted
branch. Upon his graduation from
medical, school he was given a wears
active duty and assigned to an irterne-
ship at the Walter Reed Hospital.
The appointment of First Lieut.. Iv-
man e. Morris, Battery B., 26Oth Coast
Artillery. as captain was announced
by brigade headquarters. He has been
assigned TO command Battery B of that
organization, taking the place made
vacant by the transfer to the Reserve at
MS own request of Capt James d. Egg
gleston. Capt. Eggleston asked transfer
because he is attached to the air sec
ZION OF the Lighthouse Service and is
engaged in lighting airways in various
parts OF the country.