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report at the yard before departure
30 that he may become thoroughly
familiar with various parts Of her
equipment.
He probably will be sent there be-
fore the crew who will bring her to
Washington. These will be members
Of the local Reserve who will be sent
down by train and after putting the
vessel IN commission, bring her to the
Washington Navy Yard.
The enlisted man. it was indicated,
will be Reservist who will be recalled
to active duty for an indefinite period.
The vessel is not expected to be ready
for delivery to the local Reservists un-
til some time during the first part Of
next month.
Plans are being formulated by the
Navy Department to obtain the views
Of Naval Reserve officers throughout
the country on the proposed regula-
tions to be published in connection
with the new Naval Reserve Act which
reorganized this branch of the naval
service. Ofncers of the department are
now engaged in the preparation of
the new regulations, which will be
submitted to the various departmental
heads for study and comment. They
are expected to be ready for submission
to the Reserve units about October IS.
The Reserve officers will have ap-
proximately three months in which to
study the new rules in order to formu-
late any suggestions which will be
given to certain officers to attend a
group conference for their area where
the whole matter will be discussed.
Two officers will be selected to repre-
sent the local Reservists, one each from
the Organized Aviation Reserve and
the volunteers. These officers will meet
from January to 81 with officers Sc
lected from the 5th, 9Th. 7th and 9Th
Naval Districts, at Charleston, S. c.
There will be total Of 10 officers at
tend this conference.
The commandant of the Washing
ton Navy Yard will select the officers
from this area. Officers assigned to
training duty with pay to attend the
group conferences, the Navy Depart
ment has ruled. will not be assigned to
any other active or training duty with
pay during the fiscal year, without
special authority from the Bureau of
Navigation. Officers of the Organized
Reserve selected for this duty will be
excused from the performance of other
training duty during the fiscal year.
The recommendations of each group
OF officers, together with the comments
OF the commandants of the various
districts, must be in the Navy Depart
ment prior to February 10, which will
give few days to prepare them for
submission to the Naval Reserve Policy
Board, which will convene at the
Navy Department from March 6 to
l8, next.
This board will consist Of one officer
Of the Organized Aviation Reserve,
one from the Organized Surface Re-
serve, the former fleet branch, and
one officer of the Volunteer Reserve.
selected by each of the four groups to
represent that group on the board. In
addition, there will be one additional
Merchant Marine Reserve officer Sc
lected by Group A and one by Group
D. This will make the Reserve repre-
sentatlon on the board as follows:
Organized Surface Reserve, four: Or
ganized Aviation Reserve, four; Volun.
teer Reserve, four: Merchant Marine
Reserve, two.
The recommendations of the various
group conferences will be reviewed by
the Policy Board, and final recon-
mendations submitted to the Secre-
tary of the Navy as to changes in the
Naval Reserve regulations, and such
further recommendations relative to
Naval Reserve administration as may
seem appropriate to the board.
The commandants Of districts NAV.
in their discretion, add to the repre-
sentation Of any Of the group con-
ferences Regular Navy officers, Naval
Reserve officers on active duty and
other Naval Reserve officers who are
willing to accept this duty without pay
or allowances. Likewise, it was said.
an additional number, totaling less
than IA, will be added by the Bureau
OF Navigation to the Naval Reserve
Policy Board from among Regular
Navy officers, Naval Reserve officers
otherwise on active duty and Naval Re-
serve officers willing to accept this
duty without pay or allowances.
1t is expected the Naval Commune
cations Reserve units will have avail
able in short time a new corre-
spondence course on radio communica-
ton. The department has had under
revision for some time the publica-
ton, United States Naval Communica-
tions Instructions. Naval Reseryists
who sought an improved course were
informed that it was not desirable to
prepare q new one until the revised
edition Of the instructions were out.
because of the fact that any course
prepared would necessarily have the
new book as a text.