Evening star., 1933-06-18
ARMY WILL EFFECT
S90,ODQ,o)O SAVING
Economy Will Be Made With
out Reduction in Officers
or Men.
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in accordance with the annual program
of training for Organized Reserves.
'The Citizens Military Training
Camps will be held as scheduled, but
with reduction in attendance to meet
the limited funds available. This re-
duction will limit all training to can
didates who have had previously at
least one Summers training in the
CitizenH Military Training Camps.
Schools to Continue.
"The Army school system, which pro-
cluding West Point and air cadets,
will continue"
Instructions were issued yesterday to
departmental officials and to the nine
corps areas respecting some OF the new
ly ordered economy measures.
While it is possible to figure on per-
haps 20 armory drills for the National
Guard during the year, the curtailment
from a minimum Of 48 armory drills
provided in the national defense act
Is the most severe the organization has
ever suffered. The reduction in Army
drills, paid for at the rate of 81 each,
is budget economy worked out that
falls heavily on each enlisted guards
drills to "a for the year were defeated
in Congress after a strenuous fight
National Guard associations in all sec
tions fought the proposed reductions
and finally prevailed upon the House
to restore the minimum of 48 drills.
Orders were issued yesterday also
to suspend the field training and target
practice for the Regular Army in the
coming fiscal year, except that recruits
will fire such courses as are necessary
to become reasonably proficient in the
use of small arms. Additional COM
pensation to enlisted men for qualifi-
cations in arms, an old Army tradition,
will be continued during the year only
to the extent necessary to compensate,
for one year after date of qualification,
those men who are authorized to re-
ceive the additional pay on June 20.
Field Maneuvers OF.
Suspension of field training and tar
get practice for the Regular Army, per-
haps, is the most serious impairment
of military efficiency provided in the
new economy program. It means the
cancellation of all field maneuvers and
target practice for the Infantry and
Artillery.
No change is contemplated in the
1our weeks training period recently an
nounced for the r. o. T. c. this Sum-
mer. While the usual training schools
for the Army will reopen in the Fall,
1t was said at the War Department that
economies probably would be effected
at them by reducing the size of each
new class
There was no way of estimating yes
terday the proposed reduction in civilian
personnel. 1t was not believed, how
ever, that the civilian employees in
Washington will be materially affected
by such orders. The ak. however, is
expected to fall very heavily on civilians
in the huge quartermaster depots and
in the ordnance arsenals throughout
the country where the bulk of the
civilian personnel are employed. Plans
the civilian personnel, it was
said have not yet been worked out in
detail.
An economy blow for "old time" en-
listed men in the regular Army is the
of the bonus Of $75 for
re-enlistments after July l. This GUS
tom Of paying bonus to "old timers"
for re-enlisting has become a tradition
in the Army and is useful in retaining
In the service many well trained men
who might otherwise pocket their hon
orable discharges" for good.