Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-06
District National Guard

officers would be available to take this
course between March and June
next They are to inform headquarters
their names, ranks, ages, course they
desire to take, whether they have de-
pendcnts, and prior commissioned serv-
ice in years, months and days.
| In his seasonal greeting to the mem
bers of his command, Capt. Clarence S.
| Shields, commanding Company A, 121st
/ Engineers, threw out a claim for desig-
nation as the crack organization Of the
! local Guard when he announced the
| results of the years work, as follows:
/ Company E was the only company
! in the regiment to get very satisfactory
on report Of annual inspection in 1928:
il took the most men to field training
camp in 1923; it was the only company
to turn out two platoonS for the Infan-
try drill competition at camp, and was
barely noSed out of first place: it has
qualified more men with the rifle than
any other company in the regiment for
the year 1923; its ordnance inspection
report was rated excellent its ba~ket
ball team has not been defeated in the
last 10 games due to the excellent lead
cIsliD Of GerCt. Edward p. Roberts, with
the fine spirit Of cooperation of all
members of the squad; its rifle team
District National Guard, through the
fine work Of First Lieut. Thaddeus A.
Riley, Second Lieut. Henry G. ESpey,
Sergt William r. Lane and PvtS. (F'irSt
Class Edward B. HoWlin, Arthur A.
Tomeldan and Edwin Flaharty; it has
never had a candidate for commission
fail to pass an examination; Pvt. David
w Milne came out fifth in the last eX-
animation and now is first on the eli
gible list to receive the next commits
sion; it had an average of almost AZ
men in attendance for each drill during
the year: its member. Sargt. William r.
Lane. won the citizens military cham
pionShip rifle match of the United
States at Camp Perry, Ohio, in Septem-
Der, and it has finished the year 1928
stronger and in better shape than ever
before"
Capt. Shields lays this down as tar
get for the other organizations to shoot
at, if they believe that they can make
a better showing Of a years accom-
plishment than this.
The Headquarters Detachment. 10th
Division Special Troops hit the top Of
the list in the matter Of attendance at
the last drill held by the local Guard.
and not only reached the superiCt
classification alone, but got right at the
very top with a percentage of attend
ance of 100. There also was only one
organization in the classification of eX-
cellent, it being the Medical Depart
ment Detachment, 260th Coast Artil-
lery, with percentage of 85.7l. The
ether organizations, in their respective
classifcations, are:
Very ory-Headquarters De-
tachment, 260th Coast Artillery. 1919.
Headquarters and Service Company.
l21st Engineers, 73.49; Band, 121st En-
gineers. 7142; Headquarters Detach-
ment 18th Division, 1869.
sfactory-Company D. 12lst En-
gineers, $3.50, and Battery A, 260th
Coast Artillery. g..
Unsatisfactory-Qu artermaster Corps
Detachment, 1898; Battery C. 260th
Coast Artillery, $685.; Battery B, 260th
Coast Artillery, 1894; Company E, 121st
Engineers.
Very unsatisfactory - Company A,
121st Engineers, 46.77; goth Military
Police Company, 4545: Company F,
121st Engineers, 43.07; Medical Depart
ment Detachment, 121st Engineers, 40;
Company B, 121st Engineers, 1899. and
Company c. 121st Engineers, 1899.
Company A, 372d Infantry, did not
hold drill during this period, it was
announced.