Evening star., 1935-02-03
RESERVE TRAINING
PERIOD PLANNED
Requisites for Selection oil
Officers Outlined for
Year.

In the selection of Reserve officers
residing in the District and vicinity
for active duty training this Summer,
attendance at classes, conferences,
lectures andior completion of Army
extension courses during the present
fiscal year will be a prerequisite, and
no Reserve officer will be given group
or group, II priority who does not
meet the requirements except r. o.
TIC. graduates Of. less than six
months commissioned service in the
oficers' Reserve Corps. The follow
ing priorities will govern the selection
of Washington Reserve officers for
active duty training during the 1886
fiscal year:
Group I (a) Reserve officers with
dual assignments, If the corps area
service command unit to which as
signed Is scheduled for training. (b)
Reserve officers assigned to corps area
service command and Regular Army
units, Co Reserve officers assigned to
units in initial mobilization.
Group II (a) Appropriate unit COM
manders, (b) r. o. T. c. graduates
with less than six months commits
stoned service, (c) Reserve officers
with no training in past five years,
Cd Reserve officers with only one
period of training in past five years,
(e) Reserve officers with two periods
Of training in past five years, (D Re-
serve officers with three periods of
training in past five years, (g) Re-
serve officers with four periods OF
training in past five years, and (h)
All others not in group III.
Group III (a) Reserve officers who
are Federal employees performing the
same class of work that would be re-
ouired of them in event of mobiliza-
ton, (b) Reserve officers who have
earned no credit hours through at
tendance at classes, conferences, lee
lures or completion of extension
courses.
Young men of the District who will
attend the Citizens Military Train
ing Camps will undergo instruction
by various divisional units. The Field
Artillery and Infantry c. M. T. c.
students will be instructed by the 99th
Division, the Cavalry students train
ing will be conducted by the SD
Cavalry Division, the Sd Coast Artil-
lery district will conduct the Coast
Artillery training, and Signal Reserve
units will conduct the Signal c. M.
T. C. training.
The school of tactical exercises, al
ways attended by q number Of Dis
trict Reservists, will be held this Sum-
mer at Ford George G. Meade, Md,
for Infantry and Field Artillery field
officers and senior captains Of the
18th Division, 80th Division, units Of
the 99th Division not conducting Cit
liens Military Training Camps, corps
area service command, Regular Army
units and non-divisional Field Artil-
lery units.
The school of infantry arms will
also be held at Fort Meade for In
fantry company officers Of the 18th
Division, 80th Division, units of the
goth Division not conducting c. M. T.
c., corps area service command and
Regular Army units.
The training of District units and
individual officers not covered above
will be conducted at the following
places: Air Corps, Langley Field, Va:
Cavalry, Fort Myer, Va; Chemical
Warfare Service, Edgewood Arsenal,
Md; Coast Artillery, Fort Monroe,
Va; Engineers, Fort Humphreys, Va;
Field Artillery, Fort Hoyle, Md; In
fantry (colored), to be determined
later; Quartermaster Corps, Holabird
Quartermaster Depot, Md; Ordnance,
Aberdeen Proving Ground and Manse-
mond Ordnance Depot; Signal, Fort
George g. Meade, Md; all others to
be determined by District headquar-
ters.
Mai. C. r. Huebner will address the
428th Infantry conference tomorrow
evening and Tuesday evening OF Dis
trict Infantry officers. Field Artillery
officers will meet at headquarters We'd
nesday evening under Maj. s. Leroy
Irwin. Lieut.. Col, H. G. Dagley win
address the Cavalry meeting Thursday
evening. At the 376th Engineers con-
ference Friday evening Mai. M. p. Fox
will speak. Cavalry Reserve officers
will meet at Fort Myer next Sunday at
8 am, under the direction of Lieut..
Col. Il. c. Dagley.
Beginning today, First Lieut.. John
A. Green win be on II days active
duty at Fort George G.. Meade, Md.
Second Lieut.. Joseph M. Holmes be-
gan last week II days active duty at
Fort Monroe, Va. Maj. Rowland H.
Ford has been assigned to the l83d
General Hospital Second Lieut.. Lewis
p. Hutchinson i assigned 10 the 2o2d
General Hospital.