Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-03

| 1890
the 26oth Coast Artillery of the Ma
| tional Guard of the District of Co
| lumbia, which is in camp at Fort Mon
roe Va. where it arrived last Sunday
morning This organization, four bat
! teries strong, is training With the anti
aircraft equipment at the post which
guards the entrance to Chesapeake Bay
| as the local outfit is organized Tor &C
ton against airplanes, being equipped
with large guns and searchlights, as
well as machine guns for anti-air work
Mai. Walter w. Burns is commander
of the organization, which Is the second
largest unit in the local Guard. During
their stay at the Virginia post both
officers and men are given ample time,
after their strenuous soldier training, 10
make sightseeing trips in the surround
ing country and to visit the numerous
Summer resorts with which the sec
ton is dotted.
These troops are scheduled to COM
plete their field training next SATURDAY
and are expected to arrive here to be
placed on an inactive status Tor an
other year next Sunday morning.
The largest unit Of the local Guard,
the l21st Regiment of Engineers, VIII
leave here at 10 O'Clock this morning
for Fort Humphreys, Va, the eastern
EaIlR
weeks of field training. This organlza-
ton is commanded by Col. John W.
Oehmann. During this period in the
camp the officers and men will be put
through an intensive training period,
during which they will construct neld
fortiflcations, build bridges on land ana
on water, construct roads ana engage
in demolition work, the latter to train
them in effectively retarding the puf-
suit of an imaginary enemy.
For several days during the latter
part of the week, motor truck trains,
in charge of commissioned and enlisted
personnel. have been running regular
trips between the storehouse here ana
the camp site at Fort Humphreys, car
rying tons of impediAnenta to be used
during the period of the encampment.
This is the first time in number OIL
wears that the local outfit mas mao 10
haul its own tentage. Heretofore, when
it went to the Virginia post 1t has oc-
cupied -time-built~ -SSrEacks In the
area occupied by the pdst proper, but
these have been razed to make way
for the new and permanent construc-
ton for the Regular troops stationed
there. 49,
This year the local militia engineers
are TO camp in an area assigned them
on the road leading from the Rich
mond- Washington Highway TO the en-
trance to the main section of the fort.
Company streets have been mapped OUT
and frame mess kitchens have been con-
structed, and these have been screened
for the comfort of the men during the
meal period.
When the troops arrive they will find
their tents placed on the areas assigned
them. and all they will have to do is to
put them up They will get the flrst
opportunity to use their entrenchlng
tools to provide drainage around their
tents. so that the floors will be kept dry
if and when they have any rain.
Early today the armory at sixth
street and Pennsylvania avenue was
agog with activity OF the citizen sol
diers. recruits and veterans, preparing
for the departure for the field maneu-
vers.
There is no long march facing the
troops incidental to the departure for
camp The buses which are to con-
vey them to the post are to be loaded
on the Avenue, four seats being pro-
vided for each group of three men, the
additional space being required Tor the
deposit of the packs and guns which
the men must carry with them. once
in the BUSES they Will be taken olrectly
Ia their camp site, where they will pc
disembarked right in their company
streets.
The principal activity at the camp to-
day will be the preparation OF the tenn
porary homes which they VIII occupy
during their two weeks Of training.
After the arduous task OF making camp
is completed the men VIII be given
brief respite before starting on the
heavy training duties early tomorrow
morning, when the bugler'S reyellle VIII
of
hours before many OF them usually
arise.
In preparation for the departure D
day the recruiting officers were be-
sieged last Tuesday night during the
regular drill period of scores OF youths
seeking to take their vacations IN The
field. Maj. George j. Allen, chief sur
geon and director of the newly estap-
lished medical center in the local
ermory. was kept busy for several hours
putting the applicants through SUN
physical examinations to determine
their fitness for field duty. The medl-
cal center quarters were crowded WIZ
men from the time assembly was
sounded until several hours after the
retreat had been sounded for the regu-
lar drill period. After the formal phys
ical examinations, it was necessary Ioi
the NEW men to take the anti-typnolo
| SPruffiS, ana LI1eSG WciG dOiIiA4l1oCShSo -
Mai. Allen after the physical examl-
nations had been completed.
The most pleasing information whlcf
has been circulated in connection WIZ
| this encampment is that 1t falls at thu
end of the newly established quarterly
armory drill pay period, and it wa:
said at the brigade headquarters thai
| the checks for the last quarter Woulc
be paid to the personnel while 1t Is II
| camp.
| After a week and a half Of routine
| training by sections, there will be Z
| two-day maneuver for the entire regi'
ment, which will involve long marcel
and camping overnight in pup tents,
new feature which has been ordered fol
the militia this year by the War De
partment. Prior to the regtmenta
maneuver the two battalions viii en-
gage in a war problem, preceded b.
exercises by the smaller untts. TIT
regimental r1aneuver will be the fina
stage IA o progressive plan mapped on