Evening star., 1937-01-17


year. Having participated in their
first divisional field maneuvers since
the division was organized, it Is be-
ueved that the local troops will pre-
sent q very fine showing this year to
the inspecting officers.
While the time Is very limited, the
unit commanders have been in
structed to use last years inspection
reports as q guide and assure them
selves that all matters covered by the
report are in a satisfactory condition
for the inspection and that deficien-
cies noted at the last Federal armory
inspection have been corrected
The officers who will come here to
put the various units through their
tests have not been announced, but
it was said that they will he detailed
by the commanding general of the
Sd Corps area at Baltimore.
The inspections of personnel are to
be held in the evening Of the date
set for each unit, while the examina-
tions of company records and property
will be made at 10 am, each unit
being required to call to duty in the
daytime two officers and three en-
listed men.
The tests will be started on March l
with the inspection of Company A,
372d Infantry, and the Medical De-
partment Detachment Of that unit.
The other units will be inspected on
the following dates:
March 2-State Staff and Detach-
ment, Headquarters. 29th Division;
Headquarters Special Troops, 29th
Division.
March 3-Medical Department De-
tachment, Special Troops, 29th Dr.
vision; Headquarters Detachment, 29th
Division Special Troops; Headquarters
Detachment, 29th Division.
March 4-Twenty-ninth Division
Military Police Company.
March 5-Headquarters Company,
| 29th Division.
March 8-Headquarters 104th Quar-
| termaster Regiment; Headquarters
Company and Company A, both l04th
Quartermaster Regiment; headquar-
ters of both the 1st and I'd Battalions,
l21st Engineers; Regimental Head
quarters and Medical Department De-
tachment, 12lSt Engineers.
March 9, Company A, 12lst Engi-
neers; March 10, Company B, 12lst
Engineers; March IL, Company C,
121st Engineers: March II, Company
D, 12lst Engineers; March IA, Head
quarters and Service Company, l2lst
Engineers; March IS, Company E,
| 12lst Engineers; March 16, Company
F, 121st Engineers.
The inspections of the various units
composing the 260th Regiment Of
Coast Artillery will be held as follows:
March IS, Headquarters, Medical
Department Detachment and Head
quarters, 1st Battalion; March Is,
Battery A: March II, Battery B;
March 18, Battery C: March 10, Bat
terry E: March %, Battery F; March
%, Headquarters Detachement and
| Combat Train, LIST Battalion; March
"a, Headquarters Detachment, I'd Bat
talon.
Three enlisted men of the Special
Troops, 29th Division. having success
fully completed the preliminary exam
nations, have been ordered placed on
the eligible lists from which they will
be selected to fill vacancies in the
commissioned ranks of second ieuten-
ants of Infantry as they occur.
The men, with their examination
grades, as announced by headquarters.
follow, and they will be selected for
appointments in the order of their
respective marks:
Corp. Russell McMahon, 29th Divi-
sion Military Police Company. 882 per
cent: Master Sergt. George o. Weber,
Headquarters Detachment. 29th Divi-
sion, 82.7 per cent, and Master Sergt
Hamilton Colt, Headquarters Detach-
ment, 29th Division.
On account of business or educa-
tional interference with the perform
ance of military duty, the following
have been ordered transferred from
the active to the inactive list Of the
Headquarters Company, 29th Divi-
sion:
Pvts. Samuel S. De Francis. Albert
G. Cresetto. Joseph Lapiana, jr., and
Earl w. Shaw.
Pvt Claude L. Brooks. inactive list,
Headquarters Company, 29th Division,
has been ordered honorably discharged
upon his own request.
At the same time. Pvt. Robert w.
Gwin has been ordered transferred
from the inactive to the active list of
the Headquarters Company.
Corp. Wilbur T. Townsend has been
ordered promoted to sergeant in the
Headquarters Company, 29th division.
The leave Of absence granted Capt.
/! Hugh Everett, jr., Headquarters De-
tachment, Special Troops, 29th Divi-
sion, has been extended by headquar-
ters until April IS.
. Pvt. Leon w. Brown has been or
dered transferred from the inactive
to the active list of the Headquarters
Detachment, 29th Division.
Promotions have been ordered in
Company E, 121st Engineers as fol-
lows:
Corpl. Wilfred B. Sprinkle and Pvt.
| (first claSs) Louis c. Brubaker to be
sergeants and Pvts. FIRST class Rob-
! ert M. Sullivan and Charles S. Boileau
to be corporals.
Reductions to privates were ordered
for the following: Sergts. Charles Y.
Molyneaux and Arthur A. Tomeldon
and Corpl. Robert A. Evinger.
The medical department detach-
ments of the 121st Engineer Regiment,
the Divisional Special Troops and the
260th Regiment of Coast Artillery,
were assembled at the Coast Artillery
Armory last week for a demonstra-
ton in medical training and activities,
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