Evening star., 1939-03-26
District of Columbia Troops
To Camp Near Quontico
locoI Militiomen Will Operate With
Other Units of 29th Division

Members Of the District National
Guard will have but little travel to
perform in order to reach their base
camp site In the Army maneuvers to
be held in Northern Virginia next
August, according to information re-
ceived at local headquarters last
week.
The local troops, including the
121st Regiment of Engineers, the
26Oth Regiment of Coast Artillery
and the various branches Of the spe-
cial troops of the Goth Division allo-
Gated here will be based in the vi
cinity Of Quantico, Va, but 1t was
definitely stated that they will not
be quartered on the reservation of
the Marine Corps at that point.
Other units Of the 29th National
Guard Division, from both Virginia
and Maryland, will be grouped in
the same vicinity. The 28th Ma
tional Guard Division of Pennsyl-
vania and the 2l3th Coast Artillery,
also from that State, will be based
In the vicinity of Manassas. Both
the 28th and 29th Divisions aviation
squadrons will be quartered at Lang
ley Field, from which they will carry
out their flying programs during the
progress Of the maneuvers on the
surface.
Some Of the plans for the cost of
the maneuverS are to be handled by
the local troops and others by the
corps and Army headquarters. The
local troops officials have been in
structed to prepare their estimate on
the usual basis of normal field train
ing in base camp. and have been
informed that the normal advance
and rear detachments and the sup
ply units will be formed in the usual
way by the local units. A motor con-
voy will be authorized. Such rail
transportation as is necessary for
the movement of the troops and
their equipment will be made by the
commanding general of the 1st
Army.
While brigade headquarters point
ed out that transportation by auto
mobile to the base camp will be au-
thorized to a limited extent, it was
doubted whether enlisted personnel
would be permitted to drive their
private cars to the camp, as has been
permitted in some instances in the
past. 1t was indicated it is probable
that only division and staff officers
would be permitted to travel to the
camp site by private transportation.
Any large number of automobiles at
the scene Of the maneuvers, it was
indicated. might likely complicate
the plans for carrying out the
maneuvers, and as this is to be
real war game. it was pointed out
that in actual service the personnel
would not be allowed to have their
private motor transportation along.
Brig. Gen. Albert L. Cox, COM
manding the local militia brigade,
has the report of a special board
which he appointed to consider the
question of the organization pub
fishing a weekly bulletin, for the
purpose of keeping the individual
members of the command informed
OF matters concerning the Guard.
Much of the information which the
enlisted personnel should have, it
was pointed out, can be given to
them in the form of such q bulletin,
and the board has recommended
that such a publication should be
provided for.
A rifle team, representing the
Guard, will 60 to Baltimore on April
l6. to fire a rifle match with teams
representing both the Maryland and
the Virginia National Guard units.
Maj. Just c. Jensen, in charge of
rifle practice for the local Guard,
is team captain, and is now select
ing the team. There will be 10
men on each team, not more than
five of whom may be officers of the
local Guard. Only the five highest
scores of the ten members of the
team will be counted in the final
score which will decide the match
Both Gen. Cox and 1t. Col. Peyton
G.. hewitt, assistant adjutant gen.
eral, appeared before the House sub
committee in charge of the Guard
appropriations last week to justify
the estimates made by the Guard
for its supporting during the ap-
preaching fiscal year. Ofacers at
headquarters would not discuss the
testimony of the two officers, point
ing out that it will be made public