Evening star., 1936-06-28

val Reserves in the District
~ of Columbia are enthusiastic
ever the possibility Of obtaining new
vessel here for training purposes. 1t
was indicated this week that through
the efforts of Lieut. Comdr, Mark II.
Crouter, U. S. Navy, the officer IN
charge of Naval Reserve affairs here
and inspector instructor of the local
battalion, one of the new lO0-foot
Coast Guard cutters turned over to the
Navy by that service will be sent here
for use of the battalion in making
week end cruises on the Potomac
River. It was pointed out by Lieut..
j. E. Sullivan, commanding officer OF
the local battalion, that such vessel
will be of extreme value in the train
ing of officers in ship handling and
in the training of enlisted personnel.
These vessels, it was said. have a
steel hull and have twin Diesel en-
gines.
The arrival of such vessel here. it
was asserted. will provide facilities
which have been much needed for
some time The organization now has
only a 50-foot cabin launch. which is
used constantly during the Summer
months for week end trips on the
Potomac. However, the capacity of
the boat is limited and its use has
TO be distributed among the various
divisions, so that it can only be used
by one group once or twice during the
period that navigation is open or the
river.
Ever since the destroyer was taken
away from the local ReserviStS sew
eral years ago at the time the gov
ernmental economy program was
started, the local Reservists have been
handicapped in their shipboard train
ing. While they take an annual cruise
every year aboard destroyers Of the
Atlantic training squadron. they do
not obtain much training during the
remainder of the year. The small
launch which is assigned here does
not provide sufficient space for carry
ing out the details Of training for
duty such as the officers and men
would be required to perform were
they called into active service.
However, even with the vessel which
1t is proposed now to send here, the
officers will be given more opportunity
to training themselves in handling a
larger power vessel. The enlisted men
also could be given more training in
shipboard duties of cruising vessels, in
cluding casting the lead to obtain the
depths of the waters in which the YES
sci is operating. Also it will be possible
to take more officers and men out each
time and each group will obtain more
surface boat training during the Sum-
mer months than heretofore.
The training on the water is be-
coming more important now as the
time for the annual cruises approach
Officers of the ba ttalion now are busily
engaged in preliminary preparations
Tor these cruises. which this year will
take the Washington citizen sailors
to the West Indies in the latter part
of next month and the first part of
August. Although the three local
feet divisions will not go aboard their
assigned destroyers until the morn
ing of July Is, already all hands are
making preparations and plans for
the cruise. This year the battalion
will cruise on three destroyers of the
training squadron, with each fleet
division aboard its own ship.
Commanding officers of the feet
divisions now are studying Reserve
Cruise Notes and Instructions" which
has been prepared by Capt. r. E.
Cassidy, U. S. N. commanding De-
stroyer Squadron 10, which was pre-
pared for the particular use of feet
divisions cruising aboard ships of
the Scouting Force this year. The
notes and instructions, according to
the local Reserve officers, are designed
to weld the Reserve units and person.
mel of the regular establishment
aboard training ships into a ships
company in the shortest possible time.
Division officers are also making
personnel transfers and additions in
order to bring their divisions to the
full new quota strength of IS feet
Reserve men by July l. Their present
quotas are Sc men each. 1t is ex-
pected that each feet division will be
allowed to cruise 10 additional volun-
teer Reserve men if funds are avail
able These men, it was said, will
be taken from the Recruit School and
the active drilling list of volunteers.
Francis Starke has beep enlisted
as an apprentice seaman and assigned
to the Sd Fleet Division.
Joseph Wheeler has been enlisted as
a seaman, first class, in the Naval
Communications Reserve division.
Harold E. Williamson, apprentice
seaman, has returned to his home
in Brockton. Mass, and his records
transferred to the first naval district
at Boston.
Milton Jarrett, apprentice seaman,
has returned to his home at Hunt
ington, West Virginia. and his records
transferred to the headquarters, fifth
naval district, at Norfolk.
Gilbert ]. Frauenheim has been en-
listed an aviation cadet, with the rat
ing of seaman, second class, and or
dered to take the elimination flight
training at the Naval Air Station,
Anacostia.
Howard c. Gormley has been en-
listed as an apprentice seaman and
ordered to duty with the Sd Fleet
Division.
Edward F. Hahnfeldy, apprentice
seaman, Sd Fleet Division, has re-
turned to his home in Palatine, ILL.,,
and his records transferred to the
ninth naval district, Chicago.
Walter j. Hall has been enlisted
as an apprentice seaman and as
signed to the 1st Fleet Division.
Gordon c. Hicks, seaman, second
class, I'd Fleet Division, has been
transferred from the Fleet Reserve to
the Volunteer Reserve.
Henry Howard, fireman, third class,
Sd Fleet Division, has been discharged
on expiration of his enlistment
c. T. Burgin, jr., aviation cadet,
with the rating OF apprentice sea-