Evening star., 1935-08-25

lected from the National
Il Guard Of the District of Co
1unbia soon after the present en-
campment to attend service schools
Of the Army for special instruction.
Two of the selections will be from the
Coast Artillery unit, headed by Maj.
Walter w. Burns, and one from the
Quartermaster Department.
One Coast Artillery officer will be
selected to attend the battery officers
course for anti-aircraft firing at Fort
Monroe, Va. beginning on September
16 and ending November next. The
enlisted man, perhaps a non-commis-
stoned officer, will be selected to at
tend the enlisted specialists class for
radio, also to be held at the Coast
Artillery post at Fort Monroe, begin
ming on September 16 and ending De-
cember 20.
One officer will be selected to attend
the motor transport course at the
Quartermaster Motor Transport
School at Baltimore, Md, opening on
September 16 and ending on Novem-
ber 8.
No indication has been given at
Guard headquarters as to the person.
mel to attend these courses, but it Is
expected that the opportunity will be
seized to send an officer. Officers wish
ing to attend will make their applica-
tions through their commanding Off
GERS and, of course, as they will be
away for several weeks, they will have
to make arrangements for leave from
their civilian employment. The Coast
Artillery unit has just returned from
o field training period at Fort Monroe.
1t Is expected that several applica-
tions will be received for each of the
appointments, and the commanding
officers are to designate who is to be
selected as principal for the course
and who for alternates in the event
that the principal is unable to attend.
Militia officers who can make ar
rangements for the leave are usually
keen for these special courses, as it
gives them substantially the same in
struction that is given the Regular
Army officers and fits them better for
their field duties in the event Of a
national emergency. Upon completion
Of the service school courses the Off
GERS also are available for imparting
the. instruction they received to the
other officers of their commands who
were not fortunate enough to be Sc
lected to attend the course or who were
unable to accept the opportunity be-
cause of pressure of their private
affairs.
Guard headquarters has announced
the following allotment of enlisted per-
sonnel strength for the various units:
State Detachment, %; Special
Troops, 1856; 121st Engineers, ATS;
26oth Coast Artillery, 282; Company
A, 372d Infantry. 6s, or a total of 9S4
enlisted men for the Guard as a
whole.
The following promotions in Com
pany D, r2lst Engineers, have been
ordered on the recommendation of the
unit commander:
Corp. Richard A. Graham to be
sergeant and Pvt. William c. Watts to
be corporal.
In Company A, 121st Engineers, Pvt.
Narciso Frigillana has been ordered
promoted to the grade of corporal.
Pvt. Adam G. Mouton, Headquarters
and Service Company. 121st Engineers,
has been ordered promoted to master
sergeant and assigned to duty as per-
sonnel sergeant major, l2lst Engineers
Regimental headquarters has ap-
S,royal %L1 do S;nye nf fIa
commander of the Medical Department
Detachment, 12lst Engineers, for the
following promotions:
Sergt. Paul Worksman to be staff
sergeant and Pvt Clifford F. Bailey
to be staff sergeant.
Indications have been given that
the Regular Army inspections of the
National Guard units for the current
fiscal year will be conducted by Regu-
lar Army personnel from jurisdictions
other than those in which the troops to
be inspected are located. For the past
several years, owing to the limitation
on funds for travel allowances, these
inspections have been conducted
largely by the regular inspectors as
signed to the various units.
Commenting on this, Maj. H. G.
Fellows Of the National Guard Bureau
said:
Armory inspections, for some time,
as a result of deficiencies in funds, are
not being conducted as contemplated
by National Guard regulations. 1t
appears now that for the first time in
three years funds will be available.
However, expenses must be kept to a
minimum and to successfully conduct
inspections for 1886, will require
the willing cooperation of all adju-
tant generals, in cooperation with
corps area commanders, in the matter
OF designating days on which inspec-
tionS will be made. To keep down ex-
penSeS, the journey of inspectors must
be continuous, with time only for
travel and conduct Of administrative
and training inspections.
Conducting property inventories is
not a function of these inspectors.
All they can do is to note the general
care and condition of property.
Days other than drill days, includ-
ing Saturdays, may frequently have to
be designated for inspections. This
will involve planning in advance for
use of armories on nights required"
Maj. Fellows pointed out that the
national defense act directs the Sec
retary Of War to cause inspection to
be made at least once each year, by
inspectors general or other officers of
the Regular Army, detailed by him for
that purpose, to determine whether
the amount and condition of property
IN the hands of the National Guard is
satisfactory; whether the National
Guard is organized as prescribed by
the act; whether officers and enlisted
men possess the physical and other
qualifications prescribed; whether the
organization and officers and men
thereof are sufficiently armed, uni
formed and equipped and instructed
for active duty in the field or coast
defense, and whether records are be-