Evening star., 1935-12-22
Naval Reserve Drills
Suspended This Week
Assembly of Entire Battalion, However,
Has Been Ordered for
December 80.
December 80.

RILS for all units of the lst
Battalion, National Guard Of
the District of Columbia, will
~ be suspended this week on
account OF the Christmas holiday.
However, the Yule holiday season will
be broken for the citizen sailors, who
will be required to attend drill at
the armory on the night of Monday,
December 30, according to an an
nouncement of Lieut.. (JunioF- Grade)
E. c. Carusi, battalion adjutant. While
usually each of the three feet divisions
which make up the battalion drill on
separate drill nights on account Of
the lack of adequate armory drill
facilities, the entire battalion will be
assembled on that night because
Tuesday and Wednesday, division drill
nights, fall on New Year eve and New
Year day.
1t will not be Just an assembly, ac-
cording to the plans, for the program
calls for devoting the evening to
battle problem and first aid instruc-
ton. This drill will be the second in
the month that the divisions Of the
battalion have drilled as a unit. On
completion of this drill, the local bat
talon will have made 48 regular drills
during the year 1885 and been assigned
to two weeks active duty at sea aboard
a battleship.
The last drill night was battalion
assembly and inspection, followed by
a dance. Capt j. A. Schofield,
former commander of the battalion,
and now on indefinite active duty in
the Reserve division at the Navy De-
partment, was the inspecting officer
and guest of honor subsequently at
a dance given by the officers of the
battalion to the enlisted personnel.
Following his inspection, Capt. Scho-
field praised the officers and men of
the local battalion, and told them
that if they continued their hard work
of the past they were certain to finish
in at least the first group of 10 when
the final mark-up Of the coming an
nual inspections is held this year.
new recruit class will begin on
the first drill night in 1886 This class
is made up of young men desiring to
enter the Naval Reserve service. but
who are enlisted Immediately on ap-
plication. They are required to per-
form 80 days Of service, one drill night
a week. during which they participate
in drills and class room instruction in
the Recruit School.
If, after the period of instruction.
they are found suitable for the service
and still want to enlist, they are then
signed up and uniforms and equipment
issued to them before assigning them
to divisions to take part in the regular
routine work.
The recruit class meets every Mon
at the school will be considered by the
recruiting officer on the night Of
December 80 and each succeeding
Monday night thereafter.
A group of officers and men at
tached to the 1st Division, VN-6R,
United States Naval Reserve, at the
Anacostia Naval Air Station. and sew
eral other Naval Reserve officers were
guests recently of the engineers in
charge of the laboratories of the Ma
tional Advisory Committee on Aero
nautics at Langley Field, Va, for
tour of inspection Of the work and
tests now being conducted there. The
party. under the command Of Lieut..
Comdr. E. W. Rounds, commanding
officers of the division, and Lieut..
(Junior Grade) j. w. johnson, U. S.
Navy, officer in charge Of Reserve af-
fairs at the Air Station here, made the
trip in six planes.
On arrival at the field the group
was welcomed on behalf of the COM.
mittee by H. j. E. Reid, the engineer
in charge, who gave a brief resume of
the work and accomplishments Of
the Advisory Committee. r. V. Rhode
then explained the work of the flight
research section and an inspection was
made of the various experimental
planes in the hangar of the Iabora-
tory.
The party was conducted through
the N. A. c. A. tank by Starr Trus-
colt, who gave a talk on the use of
the tank in connection with the tests
made on the hulls and pontoons of
flying ships. c. H. Zimmerman con-
Quoted several test demonstrations in
which scale models of airplanes were
used in the free-spinning tunnel.
Following an inspection trip through
the small wind tunnel conducted by
Mr.. Rein, the group was then shown
the work being done in the power
plant laboratories by E. c. Buckley
and Robert c. Spencer. The inspec-
ton was concluded by a group of
motion pictures of various phases of
the laboratory work, which was ex-
planned by Mr.. Buckley.
This trip was made in connection
with the December schedule of oper-
ationS for the 1st Division, U. S. Naval
Air Reserves, which left the Anacostia
Field in the early morning and re-
turned shortly after noon.
A Douglas transport, a Navy am
phibian, and four observation planes
were used on the flight. Lieut.. Comdr.
Rounds piloted the transport, R2Dl,
with a crew from the regular estab-
lishment, consisting of Chief Aviation
Pilot Franks, Aviation Machinists
Hazel Hochman, associate conductress;