Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-22

| Reserves of the District of !
! Columbia, returned to this city Friday
after IA days Of active duty training
aboard the battleship Wyoming of the
Atlantic Training Squadron. For many
of the officers and men it was their
first service aboard one Of Uncle Sans
largest fighting ships and they ex-
pressed themselves as much pleased
with the service they performed and
particularly at target practice, where
they fired the big guns in the Sec
ondary battery of the ship.
They also had an opportunity of
participating in formation training,
as the battleship Arkansas, with New
York and Philadelphia Reservists
aboard, was with the Wyoming dur
ing most of the period at sea. The
Arkansas, which left from Philadel-
phia and joined up with the Wyoming
at sea, parted company in the vicinity
Of New York and went to Tompkins-
vile, Long Island, to discharge her
complement of Reservists. The Wy
oming returned to Annapolis, where
the local men were embarked, and
:
GERS and men we're paid of by the
paymaster Of the ship, and upon being
landed at the Naval Academy dock,
they were met by BUSES and trans
ported tC Washington for relief from
active duty for another year.
1t will be several months before the
organization will hear about its stand
: inc In
not be made known until the scores Of
all the units throughout the country
are in. The two ships still have other
Reserve cruises to make before the
season is completed
The Reserve units will start right
in with their Fall drill schedule on
Monday and will work toward making
an excellent showing at the annual
inspection which will be conducted in
the Spring by officers from the regular
establishment at the Navy Depart
ment. OF course, they also have to
make preparations for Navy day, and
it is expected that the organization
will put on an attractive program to
which will be invited citizens of the
J
the officers and enlisted men of the
unit.
new aviation class was formed at
the Naval Air Station last week, COM
posed Of men desiring appointment
as naval aviation cadets. After 80
! days of elimination training at the
I tt-l,a
are selected to go to the Naval Air
Station at Pensacola, Fla, for further
training. If they are successful in
their education there, they are COM
mlsSioned with the rank of ensign and
then assigned to duty with the feet
for a period of three years.
1t was announced at the Reserve
headquarters here that those in the
new class are Harris F. Amrine.
Charles J. Eastman, John NJ. Gangler.
Emerson D. Gerhardt. Budd M. Muir
ray and Samuel I. Ogden. They are
enlisted as seamen, second class. 1t
was said that about half of this group
will be selected to go TO Pensacola.
-Four men OF previous class already
have successfully passed the prelimi-
nary tests and will go to Pensacola on
September %.
They are Herbert K Bragg, Virgil
S. Deitrick, Harry L. Miller and George
A. McKusick.
Lieut.. Comdr Charles w. Teggs,
Lieut.. David R. Buckingham and En-
sign Richard A. Henson have been
commissioned in the Naval Reserve, it
was announced at the Reserve head
quarters here.
The Navy Department has made
public the results of the annual in
spections of last year by board of
Mathewson, and the report has been
approved by Rear Admiral Adolphus
Andrews, chief Of the Bureau of Navi-
cation.
The report includes the relative
standings of the Naval Reserve units
throughout the country, comments
upon their administration and recon-
mendations for future training Four
teen officers Of Reserve organizations
receiving high standings in their re-
spective classes are recommended by
the board to the Secretary of the
Navy and to the chief of the Bureau
of Navigation for letters of COM
mendation
During the past year Comdr. w. I.
Causey, U. S. N, and Lieut.. Comdr,
H. F. Ely. U. S. N. serving as men,
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son. inspected l48 fleet divisions and
81 aviation divisions Of the Naval
Reserve, as well as certain units Of
the Naval Communications Reserve
, and the Marine Corps Reserve. The
board also conducted inspections of
the Naval r. o. T. c. units at the
, University of California, University
of Washington, Northwestern Univer-
sity, Georgia School of Technology,
Harvard University and Yale Univer-
sity.
Commenting on the administration
of Naval Reserve units, Capt. Mathew
son reported:
THE board conducted inspections
of Fleet Naval Reserve units from the
latter part of September, 1884. to the
middle of June, 1885. All aviation
units we're inspected after the middle
of the fiscal year. The board in
5 spected 148 feet divisions and 81
) aviation divisions. The division at
: Oahu is inspected by local board
and is not considered in the compe-
tition. Where requested. units OF the
, Naval Communications Reserve and OF
the Marine Corps Reserve were in
t spected.
1.-THE factors making up the null
tiples for feet divisions were as fol-
lows: Inspection attendance, 5; cruise
attendance, 10; general appearance,
S: mobilization efficiency, 20; drills,
IS; instruction. 20: turnover, 5, and
drill attendance, 20. The general eff
feet was to emphasize drill attendance
and proficiency in drills and nstruc-
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