Evening star., 1936-07-05

n The National Guard this year
were issued by headquarters this week.
Personnel of the various commands
are instructed by the order to at
tend the exercises prescribed for their
respective units and to make arrange
ments Of their business affairs and
with their employers to be in at
tendance. The order says that failure
to obtain leave of absence to attend
camp must be reported to head
quarters.
Under the provisions of the order
the following units will proceed to
Indiantown Gap, Pa, on August 8:
Headquarters and Headquarters De-
tachment, 29th Division; Special
Troops, 2eth Division; 29th Division
Military Police Company, 12lst Regi-
ment of Engineers; 104th Quarter
master Regiment; State Staff and
State Detachment.
The 260th Coast Artillery will leave
for Fort Monroe, Va, on July ls,
while Company A, 372d Infantry and
the Medical Department Detachment
of that regiment will leave for Camp
Albert c Ritchie, Cascade, Md, July
IL.
The greater part of the troops
will participate in the first mobili-
cation of the 29th National Guard
Division at the Pennsylvania camp.
This division is composed of all the
militia troops of this city. and in
the States Of Maryland ana Virginia,
and a Field Artillery unit from
Pennsylvania.
At the time set for the encamp-
ment in August, highways in Mary
land and Virginia will be thronged
with troop trains vending their way
to the theater of operations, as the
movement of practically all Of the
units is to be made by motor train
instead OF by railroad, to test the
ability Of the militia troops to handle
themselves by this mode Of trans
portation.
After concentrating in the PennSyl-
vania camp. the troops will spend
the first week in routine drills and
then will engage in a gigantic divi-
sional maneuver in attack and de-
fense.
Preparations are being made to
prepare members of the local guard
who wish to enter West Point via the
militia for the coming examinations,
and headquarters has issued a new
order outlining the percentages and
the method of figuring them.
The order says that the examination
this year will consist of five parts
rs follows:
Theoretical examination as con-
Quoted by the United States Civil
Service Commission.
Attendance at armory drills.
Attendance at field training camp
in the then current calendar year.
Length OF service in the District
of Columbia National Guard.
Length of residence in the District
of Columbia.
Rating of the examination will be
determined as follows, the order spe-
cities:
The percentage given in each sub
ject by the United States Civil Serv-
ice Commission and the number of
subjects will be multiplied by four.
that is, six subjects, total percentage
of $40, will become "a subjects, total
percentage of 2,l60.
Percentage of two for each armory
drill attended by the candidate for
one year Immediately preceding the
date of examination, or date of enlist
ment if that be later, but not to exceed
so drills; that is, 36 drills attended;
one subject, percentage u.
Percentage of attendance at field
training camp, not to exceed IS days;
that is, present IN camp u days OF
15-day camp; one subject, percentage
of 80.
Percentage of 10 for each month or
major fraction thereof of service in
the District of Columbia National
Guard, Immediately preceding the
date of examination, but not to exceed
II months; that is, IL months service;
one subject, percentage 120.
Recruits, that is, enlisted men with
out previous military service, in order
to be eligible for the preliminary ex-
animation, held annually about NO
vember /, must have enlisted In an or
ganization of the District Of Columbia
National Guard at least so days prior
to the first day scheduled for that
Summers training camp OF his organ
ization, for the year in which the
examination is held.
Twenty points will be deducted from
the net competitive standing Of all
candidates who have enlisted in the
National Guard Of the District of Co
lumbia subsequent to the then current
year.
Percentage of 100 for each complete
month of actual bona fide residence
within the territorial limits Of the Dis
trict Of Columbia, continuously, and
Immediately preceding November Of
then current year, but not to exceed
10 months. Residence will count as
Is subjects; that is. 18 months resi-
dent; 10 subjects, percentage 1900.
The order defines actual bona flde
residence within the territorial limits
of the District Of Columbia as only
that residence whereby the soldier has
actually lived, and intends to continue
living indefinitely in the District of
Columbia. Residents of Maryland
and Virginia living in the suburbs
adjacent to the District of Columbia.
and persons who come to the District
of Columbia for the purpose OF attend
ing school, are considered not actual
bona nde residents of the District Of
Columbia within the meaning OF this
part Of the examination.
Competitive standing of candidates
will be arrived at by dividing the total
percentage by the total number OF
subjects; that IS, from the above
examples, As subjects, total percentage
4,235, competitive standing Gall.
The result of the new order for the
examinations will have the effect Of
preserving the appointments to the
academy to young men who are actual
residents of the District Of Columbia.
Every year young men from the
States come here to attend local pre-