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Technical School and each squadron
will have a graduate Of the School
Of Aviation Medicine.
In the services there win be avail
able to each division headquarters and
to each Quartermaster Regiment two
graduates from the Quartermaster
Corps Tactical School. In the Or
dance Department there will be two
graduates per division or one for
the Ordance Company and one for
the staff. The Signal School will have
trained one oficer for each divisional
signal company and each brigade
headquarters company and one for
each divisional headquarters.
1t is estimated that an average Of
2s5 officers detailed each year will
attain the objective. To carry out
the program will require approxi-
mately s45o,0oo annually.
All special service schools have
eliminated the field officers course for
the Regular Army and most Of them
have cut out the course for National
Guard officers. In order to secure
the desired number Of graduates 1t
will be possible TO send an ofiicer TO
only one course in the special service
schools and 1t is the opinion of the
bureau that this course should be
the company. troop and battery Of
ficers' course. The selection Of
officers for schools in the immediate
future will therefore be based on this
plan.
Owing to the new motor transport,
special course will be held the COM
ing year at the Quartermaster Corps
Motor Transport School at Balti-
more, Maryland. Approximately 81
officers will be detailed for eight
weeks course at this school and the
hope Is expressed that officers will
be selected who will prove beneficial
to the States in planning and con-
Quoting motor transport movements
to and from field training.
The National Guard Bureau also
has mapped out program for send
ing enlisted men TO school and funds
for the first years requirements have
been provided. 1t is hoped to make
available, over 15-year period, one
graduate Of the appropriate enlisted
mems communications course for each
brigade, regimental and battalion
headquarters company Of the Infantry
and for like organizations OF Field
Artillery.
The plan calls for a non-com.
miSsioned officer graduate OF the
Cavalry School for every troop of
Cavalry and one Of the Medical
School for each company of the medi.
cal regiment. In the Coast Artillery
the bureau anticipates furnishing en-
listed specialist graduates in the ratio
OF one radio man for each regimental
and battalion headquarters battery
and one electrical graduate for each
regimental and battalion headquarters
battery, and one for every search
nsht battery and 3-inch gun battery.
The Air Corps Technical School will
have trained enlisted men for each
squadron in the subjects necessary
for eficient care and operation.
MAJ. Gen. Milton A. Reckord, com.
manding the 2eth National Guard
Division, and the Maryland National
Guard, said that he hopes to have
the whole division, which Is com.
posed Of the organized militia units
Of this city, and the States Of Mary.
land and Virginia, and q portion Of
Pennsylvania, in the field in one area
next year. The plans for divisional
activities last Summer were seriously
upset by the prohibition Of the State
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District and Virginia troops entering
Pennsylvania on account OF the in.
fantile paralysis epidemic.
The plans for the divisional maneu.
yer, which were to be a part Of the
| First Army maneuvers, were brought
about after years Of effort following
the organization of the division sub.
sequent to the World War. Had dis
ease not entered into the plans, it
would have been the first time that
the 29th National Guard Division
would have been in the field under
divisional organization and war
game plan since its organization.
However, following Pennsylvania pro-
hibition. the units were sent to camps
in their own States for the annual
field exercises.
In view Of this situation, 1t was
| pointed out that it would be a good
argument for convincing the War De-
partment of the desiability OF mo-
bilizing the division next year for its
flrst field maneuvers as a division.
The principal cost, of course. in such
1 fR fYrn1xV
small increase in the cost Of trans
portation, and it is probable that this
can be held down by the use of the
motor vehicles Of the units, instead
of transporting them by railroad. As
a matter Of fact many Of the troops
were to be sent into the field last
Summer by motor transport, as q sort
of test of mobilization in this manner.
Estimates now are being prepared
for the field exercises Of the National
Guard next Summer, and it Is ex-
pected that strong representations
will be made to the War Department
/ to include in them provision for a
mobilization of the 29th National
Guard Division.
The following have been ordered
transferred from the inactive to the
active lists Of their respective units:
Pvts. Irving L. Oliff. Domingo NJ
Paratiempo and Charles T. Turner of
Company D, 121st Engineers: Pvt.
Harlan Beaver, 29th DivisioS1 Military
Police Company.
On account Of business interference
with the performance Of military duty,
the following have been ordered trans
ferred from active to the inactive lists
Of their respective units:
Pvts. Edward H Evans, jr.; John J.
Hopes and James C. Price. all of the
Medical Department Detachment.
12lst Engineers; Pvt. (First Glass;
Harry J. Ingley, 2sth Division Mill
tary Police Company, and Pvt. John
r. Todd. goth Division Military Police
Company,