Evening star., 1930-06-15

Detailed orders for the movement to
the camp sites selected for the annual
field training periods of the various
units composing the District Of Colum-
bia National Guard were promulgated
by the local brigade headquarters dur
ing the week. The order says that the
State staff and State detachment will
be ordered to duty at the various camps
by special orders to be issued later by
the brigade headquarters. The various
camp commanders also are designated.
The camp season will be opened on
July next, when the State Staff De-
tachment, the Headquarters and Head
quarters Detachment, 29th Division; the
Headquarters and Headquarters Detach-
ment, Special Troops, 29th Division, and
the goth Division Military Police Com
pany will proceed to Fort George q.
Meade, Md, where, with brigade head
quarters of other units of the Goth Di-
vision from the States of Maryland and
Virginia, there will be inaugurated the
first command post exercises conducted
by the headquarters officers and their
troops. They will remain there until
July 19, and during the interim will be
engaged on divisional war game which
will carry them many miles from the
base camp.
On July 26 the 26oth Coast Artillery
will leave Washington by steamer for
Fort Monroe, Va, where it will 60 into
camp and receive anti-aircraft training
until August 8.
The 121st Regiment Of Engineers, the
largest unit of the Guard, will leave
Washington on August for the United
States Engineer post at Fort Hum
phreyS, where they will remain until
August II. Last week Col. John w.
Oehmann, commanding this regiment,
and three of his off1cers-Lieuts. Nc
Mahon, Fitzgerald and Wade-went to
the Virginia post, where they inspected
the camp site and stake out the tent
lines, company streets and areas for the
various utilities. The organization in
the past has been quartered in barracks
there, but this year it was said that
they will be required to use tents in the
area between the post proper and the
entrance from the Richmond-W Washing
ton road.
Company A, 372d Infantry, the COL
ored contingent of the local Guard, will
leave here on August II for Camp Al
bert c. Ritchie at Cascade, Md, where
they will go into camp with the colored
contingent from Baltimore. This will
be one Of the most ideal camp sites Sc
lected for the local troops, being located
near several mountain Summer resorts
and on a reservation where there are
many facilities for the recreation of the
troops.
Col. John W. Oehmann, commanding
the 121st Regiment of Engineers, has
been designated commander Of the Fort
Humphreys camp; Maj. Walter w.
Burns, commanding officer of the 260th
Coast Artillery, has been designated
commander Of the Fort Monroe camp,
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designated camp commander at Cascade.
The orders authorize advance and
rear detachments to be detailed for
duty three days preceding and one day
following the encampments of the re-
Spective units as follows: State staff
and special detail, Fort Meade, ON
Ger and 5 enlisted men; l21st Engi-
neers, less Medical Detachment, on
GERS and 81 enlisted men; Medical De-
partment Detachment, 121st Engineers,
l officer and men; 29th Division Spe-
cial Troops, 2 officers and enlisted
men; 260th Coast Artillery, officers
and II enlisted men, and Company A,
372d Infantry, / officer and men,
In addition to this detail, there will
be camp supply detachment ordered
by brigade headquarters from the Quar-
termaSter Corps for duty at Fort
Humphreys, Va, three days prior to
and two days subsequent to the en-
campment. 1t will consist of one Of
f1cer two enlisted men for supplies and
three for truck drivers.
All Of the camp commanders have
been instructed to designate q trans
portation off1cer who will apply to the
United States property and disbursing
officer for necessary transportation, as
the motor vehicles are to be pooled dur
ing the camp period.
The regimental and separate batta-
lion commanders also have been di-
rected to submit to the brigade head
quarters, at least two weeks in advance
of the camps Of their respective units,
list of personnel whom they recon-
mend be authorized to proceed to and
from the camps in privately owned
motor vehicles. The War Department
allows a certain percentage of troops
to travel in this manner, and permits
the men to collect for the use Of the
vehicles. The use of private auto
mobiles saves railroad and bus trans
portation.
The supply officers Of the various
camps will be designated by the COM
manding officers, and only these Of
ficers will be authorized to make pur-
chases Of supplies. However, the unit
commanders will be required to keep
purchase accounts, and the order speci-
fleS that the company battalion and
regimental officers and their stats will
not be paid following the close of the
encampment until all reports called for
have been prepared and submitted for
all units of their respective commands.
The orders this year also direct that
boards of inquiry be called in all cases
of injury or sickness necesSitating hos
pital treatment during or subsequent
to the encampment. 1t asserts that the
camp commanders will be held respon-
s1ble for the prompt treatment and
safeguarding of interests of personnel
under their command, and directs at
tention to the fact that any lapse of
time between the encampment and
hospital treatment subsequent thereto
prevents any payment of pay or al
lowances to the individual requiring
treatment, whereas such lapse of time
may be due entirely to lack Of proper
administration.
Attention is directed in the orders
to War Department regulations which
provide that officers belonging to COM
panieS or similar units will not be en-
titled to pay and that such units will
not be sent to field training camps
unless the unit concerned has the
necessary minimum maintenance
strength, or unless so per cent of the
officers and so per cent of the actually
enrolled enlisted men attend the camp.
All property taken to camp is to be
inventoried prior to the close Of the
camp and any shortages found to exist
will be charged against the individual
concerned, unless the facts surrounding
the loss clearly indicate that survey
proceedings should be instituted
Sergt. Charles S. East OF the 29th
Division Headquarters Troops, having
completed the communications course
in he TV1fo caI N.