Evening star., 1939-03-26
Training Schedule
For Reserve Officers
Is Announced
Those UnobIe to Attend
Comps May Take Part
In Army Moneuvers

Col. Richard Wetherill, senior in
structor Of the Organized Reserves
In Washington, announced last week
the schedule Of active duty training
that will be available to Reserve Of
flcers of the District of Columbia
this summer, other than the Army
maneuvers. The maximum use Of
District Reserve officers with the
Regular Army and National Guard
during the period Of the first Army
maneuvers, tentatively scheduled
for August 5 to 10, has been author
lied, and those Reservists not able
to attend the Reserve camps or par
ticipate in the G. M. T. C. training
this summer will be afforded the op-
portunity of participating in the
August maneuverS.
The schedule of active duty train
ing that will be available to District
officers this summer. other than the
Army maneuvers, follows: Air Corps
at Langley Field, Va. (any 14-day
period between July 8 and June 80,
194O; Chemical Warfare Service Of
f1cers at Edgewood Arsenal, Nd,
July 80 to August II: 3O5th En-
gineers, 1320th Service Unit, and
divisional engineer units at
Fort Belvoir, Va, August 20 to Sep
tember 2; officers OF the 3l3th and
3l5th Field Artillery will train the
c. M. T. c. at Fort Hoyle, Nd,
July 4 to II, and those of the 3l4th
Field Artillery at Fort Hoyle with
the c. M. T. c., from July 13 to 26;
Ordnance Department officers at
Fort George G. Meade, Md, August
27 to September 8, and Quarter
master officers at Fort Washington,
Md. from July 8 to %.
District Infantry officers will be
engaged this summer in training the
c. M. T. c. at Fort George G.
Meade, Md, as follows: 32Oth In
fantry and 3l7th Infantry, 1st Bat
talon, July 4 to II; 319th Infantry
and I'd Battalion OF the 3l7th In
fantry. July IA to q, and 3l8th In
fantry and Sd Battalion of the 3l7th
Infantry. July "a to August 6. Mem
bers of the 428th Infantry will train
the colored c. M. T. C. units at
Fort Howard, Md, In three different
increments. viz, July to IT, July IA
to q, and July "a to August 6.
The dates and posts at which Of
flcers of the Adjutant Generals De-
partment, Corps of Chaplains,
Finance Department, Judge Advo-
cate Generals Department and the
Military Intelligence Department
will be trained will be determined
later by Sd Corps Area Headquarters
in Baltimore.
The above schedule does not apply
to local officers assigned to the Sd
Coast Artillery district, the 62d Cav
airy, Tank Reserve units and Signal
Reserve units. Information regard
ing active duty training of officers
assigned to these units can be OBJ
tained from the respective unit in
structors. Officers of the 305th Med
ical Regiment and divisional
units will train at Carlisle Barracks,
Pa, from July 8 to %. Applications
OF officers applying for active duty
with the C. M. T. c. should reach
Washington Reserve headquarters in
the Munitions Building not later
than May l, 1899, while the appli-
cations for the Army maneuvers
should be submitted not later than
two months prior to the date on
which training is to begin.
No officer will be eligible for active
duty training who has failed to earn
Is hours credit on an inactive
status since July l, 1898, to include
minimum of Is hours of extension
school work, appropriate to his grade
and arm or service, except that ex-
emption from this requirement will
be granted to those officers who %
are in their first year of service, and
CD in the 1899 fiscal year will have
graduated from a service school,
satisfactorily served for a period of
not less than three months, either
under the provisions of the Thoma-
son Act. or on extended active duty
with the Air Corps. or on the War
Department General Staff.