Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21
District National Guard

Department, who is in charge of the
rife shooting in the local Guard, head
ed the team. The others were First
Lieut. Thaddeus A. Riley, Company E,
121st Engineers, team coach; First Lieut..
Hugh Everett, jr., 12lst Engineers, and
the following team members; Capt.
Clarence S. Shields, Company z, 12lst
Engineers; First Lieut.. Walter r. Stokes,
Medical Department Detachment, 121st
Engineers; Second Lieut. William r.
Lane, Company E, 121st Engineers;
Master Sergt. Donald A. Falk, Head
quarters Detachment, 29th Division |,
First Sergt. William d. Putnam, Com
pany E. 12lst Engineers; Staff Sergt.
Alex J. Thill, Ordnance Department;
Sergt Louis A. Robertson, Headquarters
and Service Company, 121st Engineers;
Sergt. Franklin r. BrickleS Company A,
121st Engineers; Sergt. Harry B. Par
sons. Company E, 121st Engineers;
Sergt. Theodore Harrell, Ordnance De-
partment; Sergt. Henry M. Boudinot
Company E, 121st Engineers. and Corpl
Philip c. Geraci, Ordnance Department
Some of the desires Of the Militia
Bureau in the training of the National
Guard are contained in a bulletin,
which says that the basic training of
any individual or subdivision of a larger
unit may be defined as the training of
this individual or subdivision necessary
to prepare him or it to receive instruc-
ton as part of the next higher group.
The Militia Bureau continues to en-
phasize the necessity OF more exact
training in the fundamentals. This as
a result of information received through
out the year from all corps areas.
The bureau reports that it desires to
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regiment and separate organization a
solid foundation, not veneer, of trained
units on which to extend the scope of
organization training. 1t believes that
command and staff instruction of the
battalion or squadron should progress
along with the unit training, through
the medium of conferences, map prob
lens, terrain exercises and command
post exercises, in addition to the train
ing produced by practical contact with
and supervision over troops. Then
when the first platoon followed by the
companies or batteries of q battalion,
or troops of a squadron, are declared
proficient in unit field and combat
work, basic instruction of the battalion
or squadron as a fighting organization
may proceed.
Command and staff instruction of
higher echelons should be programmed
TO precede SuDOrdlnaCe organization
progress, and when work on the ground
is undertaken, headquarters and COM
munication units only should be present.
However, definite and adequate time for
contact with and supervision of the
training of subordinates must also be
planned.
The above, the bureau says, should be
the general training scheme until such
time as battalions are declared basically
prepared to take the field. Battalions
are basic combat organizations. There
fore, with them efficiently prepared and
with progressive training of higher
headquarters preceding them in instruc-
ton, the use in field exercises of the
regiment brigade, or division in short
not over three days, period during field
training may be undertaken If approved
by the corps area commander.
1t is added that in order that there
may be no misunderstanding, it is en-
phasized that staff instruction must
include thorough grounding for at least
SO per cent of available time in the
fundamentals of combat and the use of
combined arms pertaining to the or
ganization. 1t should not be confined
to any mechanical functioning of stats.
1t is also emphasized that knowledge