Evening star., 1938-06-05
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viii Join Second Division
at Fort Warren, in
Wyoming. .

pleting his tour Of duty as unit in
structor at District Reserve headquar-
ters. has been assigned to duty with
the I'd Division at Fort Francis E.
Warren. Wyo. He will be replaced
at local headquarters by Maj. Harry
M. Gwynn, who has been on duty
at Schofield Barracks, Hawaiian De-
in Washington some time this month.
Combat principles Of howitzer COM
pany squads will be the subject Of
the infantry conference next Tuesday
evening. Members of the 1300th and
1324th service units will meet Wed
nesday evening to discuss personnel
procurement. The Citizens Military
Training Camps will be discussed at
the conference Of the 50th Signal Bat
TALON on Thursday evening. Army
regulations No. 350-2,200 will be
taken up.
The holding Of six other instruc-
tional conferences by various District
Of Columbia reserve units, the last of
which will be held on June 20, will
conclude the 1878 troop school
schedule. In the selection OF local
Reservists for active duty training be-
ginning in July. preference will be
given to those officers who. by progress
sive, systematic study and other in
active duty training are really pre-
pairing themselves to perform effi-
GENTLY the duties of their mobilization
assignments. Such preparation i'm
plies not only personal improvement of
professional knowledge and fitness, but
active participation during the past
eight months in the inactive duty
training conferences at District Re
serve headquarters, the senior instruc-
tor OF which Is Col. Richard Wetherill,
Members of the l6oth Infantry
Brigade will be trained at the School
OF Minor Tactics and Technique of
Infantry Weapons at Indiantown Gap.
Pa, while field artillery officers of
the l55th Field Artillery Brigade will
undergo active duty training at Fort
Hoyle, Md. The camp training of
other District Reserve units and in
dividual officers will be: Air Corps.
Langley Field. Va: Cavalry. Fort Myer,
Va: Chemical Warfare Service. Edge
wood Arsenal, Md: coast artillery, Fort
Monroe. Va; engineers, Fort Belvoir.
Va; Field Artillery, Fort Hoyle, Md. ::
Medical Department (those assigned
to Medical Department units at Car
Isle Barracks, Pa. or at other Re-
serve camps within the Sd Corps
Area); Quartermaster, Indiantown
Gap, Pa; Ordnane, Raritan Arsenal,
N. j. Chaplains will be trained where
their services are required, while the
training places Of all other District
officers will be determined by Sd Corps
Area headquarters.
Local Reserve officers, selected to
attend the camps, will devote a
greater number OF hours to actual
military training and instruction than
has been prescribed heretofore. Ex-
elusive Of travel time to and from
camp. conferences and processing
District officers participating in the
camp instruction will be given min
imum of 80 hours of actual military
training and instruction. Instructions
have been sent out by the War De-
partment that the l4-day training
periods be made as intensive as pos
sible. Necessary adjustments will be
made in the approved training sched-
ules SO as to provide night maneuvers
or night training of not less than five
hours and such additional training as
may be necessary to provide a mini
mum of 80 hours of actual military
training and instruction. Under this
new Reserve training policy, District
officers attending camp will report as
early as possible on the first day of ac-
tive duty to the station where training
is to be conducted in order that ply
sical examinations may be completed
on the first day of active duty and
training entered upon the second day.
The processing will have to be COM
pleted the first day in order to COM
plete the minimum of 80 hours of ac-
tual military training and instruction.