Evening star., 1934-07-29
NAVY RESERWSTS
WILL CRUISE SOON
Only Four Drill Nights Re-
main Before Training
Starts.


the LIST Battalion, United States Naval
/ Reserves Of the District of Columbia,
| are pushing their plans for the an
nual practice cruises aboard two de-
| stroyers. Intensive drill schedules
are being earned out at the armory
In the Washington Navy Yard with
| a view to having the men well trained
/, when they board the ships. With this
| preliminary work. 1t Is expected that
| they viii be able to settle down
/ quickly into the routine of ship work
!, and drills while en- route TO the At
iantic Ocean.
| This will be the first time In the
history of the local battalion that the
/ three divisions viii go to sea at the
same time. In the past 1t has been
the practice, since regular training
ship was Withdrawn from this organi-
/ zation, TO have a destroyer come
| here and take one division out at
time. leaving a week In between
each cruise. However. this year, ac-
cording to present plans. two OF the
divisions viii go aboard one vessel,
| while the third will 60 On another.
| The ship which takes the one division
also will proceed to Richmond to take
aboard a division of the reserves from
that city before proceeding to sea for
| the annual training period which win
, take two weeks.
! So far the local battalion head
/ quarters has not been informed of
the itinerary which the ships will fol-
| low after they take aboard the men,
1 - A.kk f~ k.a~
| lieved, however, that they viii 60 to
some point of the New England
coast for maneuvers and target prac-
tice, possibly putting into New York
or Boston for the week end liberty
period in the middle Of the cruise.
It Is expected that all divisions of
| the battalion will have their full
quotas ready TO board the destroyers.
The enlisted personnel have been
| looking forward to this cruise for
| long time, as the cruises have been
suspended for the past two years, |
| first on account of the necessity of
| governmental economy and last year
| on account of the need OF the de-
stroyers during the Cuban disturb
I ance. The Reservists are hoping that
i nothing will occur at the last mo-
| ment to abandon the cruises this
| year, although last year some divi-
sions we're actually at sea for train |
| ing when the orders were flashed by
radio cutting the cruises short and
sending the ships to the home sta
tions to debark the ReServists and
head for Cuba.
Records have been received of the
transfer here of Lieut.. r. w. Hets- |
field, Intelligence Reserve, from the
| f4th Naval District at Honolulu, and
Lieut.. q. Co. w. P. Baker, Medical
| Corps, from the 4th Naval District |
at Philadelphia, Pa.
Orders have been issued directing
four medical and two dental officers
TO the local Marine Corps Reserve
| for duty with that unit during Its
encampment and maneuvers at
Quantico.
The medical officers are Lieut.. |
Comdr DON S. Knowlton, Lieut. Will
| liam L. Schafer, Lieut.. ~. g. Alfred |
M. Palmer and Lieut. Howard II. |
Strine.
The dental offieers are Lieut.. Lester |
NJ Lucas and Lieut.. q. CD A. Victor
Cercell.
| Ensign Raymond J. Zanzot has |
been recommended for transfer from
the Volunteer to the Fleet Reserve
to fill vacancy In the 1st Fleet Divi- |
sion.
Ensign Douglas G. Wright, Sd |
Fleet Division, has been ordered |
transferred to the Volunteer Reserve |
on his own request.
The following re-enlistments were
reported during the week: Donald d. |
Mcpherson, fireman, second class, I'd |
Fleet Division, and Theodore L. Rich |
ardson, quartermaster, first class. I'd |
Fleet Division.
A list of the courses which officers |
are expected to have completed in |
order to gain promotion, in lieu of !
the requisite sea-training duty which |
has been denied them during the past |
couple Of years. has been published
by the Navy Department as follows: |
Ofncers for deck duty: Navy regu-
lations and military law, and at least
one of the following: Navigation, sea-
manship, gunnery, visual communica-
| ton
Officers for deck and engineering
duty: Navy regulations and military
| law, and at least one of the follow
ing: Navigation, seamanship, gunnery,
visual communication, engineering
| Oficers for engineering duty only:
Navy regulations, military law and
| engineering
Oficers for aviation duty: Navy
| regulations, military law and navi-
cation.
Oficers for the Supply Corps: Navy
regulations, military law and supply
officers course.
Cfficers in the Medical and Dental
Corps: Navy regulations and military
Law.
Oficers in the Chaplains' Corps:
Navy regulations.
The Bureau of Navigation recently
issued q letter announcing that GER
tain aviation officers with commercial