Evening star., 1938-01-23
Estimates for Guard Engineer
Camp Are Sent to Baltimore
Funds for Summer Training at Gus.
cade, Nd, Ready for Approual by
War Department Bureau.

Estimates for the support OF the
District National Guard while taking
their annual field training next sum-
mer are being formulated at head
quarters and SO far those for one or
ganization have been completed. The
dates have been selected as we'll as the
camp sites, and these have been sent
to the headquarters of the Sd Army
Corps Area at Baltimore, where they
will be studied. and if approved, then
will go to the National Guard Bureau
of the War Department for flnal
action.
The first to be completed were those
of the 121st Regiment of Engineers
1t has been recommended that this
group be sent to Camp Albert C
Ritchie, Cascade. Md, from July &c
to August l3. 1t was said at Guard
headquarters that these dates have
been arranged after ascertaining that
they will not conflict with the use OF
the reservation by the Maryland
militia for its field training.
While it is proposed that the en-
gineers will proceed to the camp by
rail they will march" home, theo-
retically. The plans call for a road
march, but as a matter of fact it will
be test of movement by motor cara
van. 1t is proposed the troops leave
the Maryland camp on August 10 and
proceed over the road through Sharps-
burg. Winchester, Warrenton and on
to Washington, distance of ITO
miles. During the march they will
hold maneuvers and will camp each
night in pup tents. 1t will give the
troops a real test of field service
through transportation, feeding on the
march and in sleeping under CAM
paign conditions. Twelve days OF
living In the open and the hardening
work Of the drills, it is believed, will
fit them for this maneuver, which is
something new in the way of field
training for the engineers of the local
Guard.
The troops will move out of here
by rail. with only their checkable bag
gage on the train. Over the road
loaded with the heavy field equip
ment will go Company B and the
Headquarters. lst Battalion, l04th
Quartermaster Regiment, which will
furnish the service of supply during
the period of the permanent camp
and then will pick up all the field
baggage as we'll as the troops on the
proposed march to the home station
At this time it was estimated A
officers. warrant officer and 526 en-
listed men will participate in this
movement. which also includes Com
pany A. 372d Infantry, the colored
contingent. This latter outfit. in ad-
dition to going to camp by rail, will
return by the same means.
Headquarters has begun work or
estimates for the other units. These
include the 26Oth Regiment of Coas,
Artillery. which. at this time, it is
planned to send to Fort Story. Va, and
the District contingents of the 29tt
National Guard division, the latter to
have a mobile camp which will move in
Western Virginia from day to day as
the war problems laid out for them tc
work are developed. This movement
also will involve divisional units from
the States of Maryland and Virginia
headed by Maj. Gen. Milton A. Reck-
ord of Maryland, commander of the
division
Figures on target practice for the
guard have been sent to Army head
quarters at Baltimore They show AZ:
completed the required qualifca
ton course, of which 80 finished a.
expert riflemen, 10 as sharpshooters
276 as marksmen and 81 unqualified.
In addition 2l3 men were excused