Evening star., 1936-10-04
Naval Reserve Instructor
By DC. Battalion
Lieut.. Comdr. Mark H. Crouter Departed
During Week for New
Assignment.

cants who desire TO enroll in other
branches in which there are no va
cancies. The recommendation was
offered that no attempt be made in
time of peace to fill the enlisted quota
OF this branch. However, 1t was said
that naval districts should keep filed
the assigned quotas for officers. The
limiting maximum for this branch In
time Of peace was suggested as 5000
officers and 10000 enlisted men. The
Volunteer Marine Corps Reserve limit
was recommended as 2,155 officers
and 16,050 men.
1t was pointed out that the Fleet
Reserve should be organized by the
commandants of districts into units
for sea-going stations, and into other
units. or individually, for short sta
ton mobilization. The Merchant
Marine Naval Reserve should be or
ganized, it was said, by units and
divisions on vessels on the approved
list issued by the Navy Department
The unit for this group was described
as guns crew. communication or
ganization or an engineering group.
A divisionsl "a. piled to the Merchant
Marine N;sserve should be COM
posed Of one or more guns crews and
either a communication or engineer
ing unit. or both.
In this connection it was suggested
that all members of the Merchant
Marine Naval Reserve organized into
units or divisions and performing
drills and other prescribed training
should be considered as an active class
OF the Reserve. AL other Merchant
Marine Naval Reservists enrolled for
occasional training duty and for cor
respondence courses only should be
considered as an inactive class. It
was urged that no member of the
Merchant Marine Naval Reserve
should be assigned to an active unit
or division unless he meets certain
physical, mental and professional
qualifications prescribed by the Sec
retary of the Navy and is of an ap-
propriate age in grade Merchant
Marine Naval Reservists who have
received naval training and who are
otherwise qualified may be trans
ferred to the Volunteer Reserve upon
ceasing to follow the sea or otherwise
disqualified to be in the Merchant
Marine Naval Reserve.
As for the National Naval Reserve.
now known as the Fleet Reserve, it
was recommended that 1t be organ
lied into sea-going and aviation
classes. The sea-going class should
consist Of divisions and battalions
and the aviation class consist Of
squadrons as at present.
1t was urged that the National
Naval Reserve and the National Ma
rine Corps Reserve should be kept
filed to allowed complement as pre-
scribed by the Navy Department.
Volunteer officers and men should
be used as replacements to keep the
organizations filled to quota.
1t was pointed out that the num-
Der OF divisions of the National Naval
Reserve was apportioned to the naval
districts in accordance with the pres
ent fixed policy, which has proved sat
isfactory, and it was recommended
that no changes be made except for
good and sufficient reasons.
The Volunteer Naval Reserve, the
experts said, should consist Of both
organized units and unorganized in
dividuals assigned to special mobiliza-
ton stations. The following special
ties should be organized into units as
far as practicable:
Naval Academy and r. o. T. G.
graduates should be assigned to Ma
tional Naval Reserve divisions as su-
pernumeraries and replacernents
where possible.
A replacement group of enlisted
men should be associated with each
National Naval Reserve organization.
Communication personnel ehould be
organized by districts into sections
and units for training purposes, as at
present specified by the Bureau of
Navigation and chief Of naval oper-
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