Evening star., 1938-04-24
National Guard Units Striue
For Increase IN Personnel
Opportunity to Get More Enlisted Men
Spurs Commands to Get More Troops
Out for Weekly Drills.

Tightening up Of the drill attend
ance requirements Of the District Ma
tional Guard has brought such fine
results that the officers at headquar-
ters are very much pleased, 1t was In
dicated there last week. While all Of
the units are required to maintain q
strength not less than the required
minimum, those having an attendance
of 80 per cent or better for a month
have been authorized to increase their
strength to not more than rs per cent
Of the minimum.
The order has served to start q
weeding-out process, causing the elm
ination, through transfer from the
active lists to the Reserve, of those
men who, through delinquency, failed
to attend drills, or whose business of
schooling keeps them away for long
periods.
Two Of the units last month fin
ished with 100 per cent attendance,
they being the Headquarters Company,
104th Quartermaster Regiment and
the Headquarters Detachment, Special
Troops, 29th Division.
The other units, in their relative
order, with percentages, follow: Com
pany A, l2lst Engineers, 98.47; Head
quarters Detachment. End Battalion,
260th Coast Artillery. 98.34; Headquar-
ters Detachment, 29th Division, 97.4l;
Medical Department Detachment, Spe-
cial Troops, 29th Division, 97.12;
Headquarters Company, 29th Division,
$685.; Headquarters and Service Com
pany, l2lst Engineers, sc. .28: Company
A, l04th Quartermaster Regiment,
1881; Company A, 372d Infantry,
1852; State Detachment, 94.44; 29th
Division Military Police Company,
1892; Band, 12lst Engineers, 1854;
Medical Department Detachment,
12lst Engineers, 93.42; Company B.,
104th Quartermaster Regiment, 89O8;
Medical Department Detachment,
260th Coast Artillery, 1928; Company
d. l2lst Engineers, 1888; Battery D,
260th Coast Artillery, 84.3l; Company
F, l2lst Engineers. 84O6; Headquar-
tiers Detachment, 1st Battalion, 260th
Coast Artillery, $500; Company B,
l2lst Engineers, 8277; Battery B,
260th Coast Artillery, 8027: Battery
A, 260th Coast Artillery, 1920; Battery
E, 260th Coast Artillery. 7796; Com
pany E, 12lst Engineers, 1888; Com
pany c, l2lst Engineers. 7407; Bat
terry c, 260th Coast Artillery, 7733;
Battery F. 260th Coast Artillery,
7089.
Because Of the wide field of opera
tions expected at the coming encamp-
ment OF the 29th Division staff and
the 29th Division headquarters units,
special arrangements are being made
for signaling and other communica-
tions which will be necessary during
the period that this group is In the
field. Wire. radio and other forms
Of signaling will be used. in order to
aid the officers of the division staff
to carry out their widespread opera
tions, which will partake Of the ma
ture of moving a division in the
field under actual wartime conditions
AS matter Of fact, the camp itself
will be moved every day or so as the
problem on which they are working
progresses, and in many cases various
parts Of the staff will be working at
great distances. necessitatjng the full
use Of all available means OF COM
munication.
After Maj. Gen. Milton A. Reckord
Of Maryland, commanding the 29th
National Guard Division, and Brig.
Gen. S. Gardiner Waller, commanding
the 9lst Infantry Brigade of the Vir-
ginia National Guard, have made a
reconnaissance in the vicinity of Win
chester to select various areas which
will form the theater Of field maneu-
vers. Col. Shepard L. Pike, U. S. A.,