Evening star., 1939-02-26
Reserves 10 Witness
Gas Mask Display
And View Scenario
Judge Advocate Generals
Officers Will Discuss
Safeguarding Documents

A full Institutional schedule con-
fronts District reserve officers this
week. Meeting tomorrow evening
quartermaster and finance eofncers
will witness gas mask demonstra-
ton and view Ga scenario, while
officers of the judge advocate gen.
erals department will discuss the
safeguarding Of military documents,
information and material. The first
three lessons of sub-course 20-l,
Citizens Military Training Camps,
will be the subject of the Coast Ar
tillery Conference on Tuesday
evening.
On Wednesday evening, field ar
tillery officers will take up the school
of cannoneer and materiel and no.
menclature of the firing battery.
Thursday evening cavalry officers
will discuss defense against mechan-
ization, care of animals, weapons
and equipment, while the machine
gun group will take up the caliber
so machine gun and the 81 nm.
gun. The subject of the candidates
school, the same evening, will in
clude military sanitation and first
aid and organization of the quar-
termaster corps.
Members of the 364th Medical
Regiment on Friday evening will
take up map exercise with the 18th
Infantry Brigade in retrograde
movement. The situation will in
volve typographical map 1:21120
Gettysburg and Bonneauville sheets,
which officers may obtain by tele-
phoning Washington reserve head
quarters. Officers of the regiment
will be prepared to discuss a retro
grade movement, steps which char
acterize a retrograde movement.
steps the surgeon of an infantry
regiment should take to care for the
wounded in such movement, what
disposition should be made of the
elements Of the medical regiment,
and what is the procedure of evacu-
alton in a retrograde movement.
The equitation instruction at Fort
Myer, Va, next Sunday morning
will include mounting and dis
mounting, position of trooper,
mounted; mounted drill, passing to
dismounted action, forming dis
mounted, led horses
In response to many inquiries
from District officers as to the duties
of service command units and the
officers assigned to them, Col Rich
ard Wetherill, senior instructor of
the Organized Reserves in WASH
ington, issued memorandum last
week. In an emergency, most of
the Regular Army units will either
leave for the theater of operations
or be engaged in receiving new men
and training them; thus the duty
for mobilizing for war has been gen.
orally laid on service command
units. of which there are several in
tie District. Since great deal of
their work consists in examining re-
cruits, classifying them and furnish
ing them equipment, shelter and
food, great many of the officers
assigned to service units are from
the medical. quartermaster. ord
nance and other supply branches.
The question of extension course
subjects for officers assigned to these
units is of Importance OF first i'm
portance is common subcourse No.
16 on mobilization. infantry sub
course 20-8; five lessons and exam
ination, IA hours, and special text
No. 26, pertaining thereto. both Of
which have been revised for 1888 to
bring them in line with the pro-
tective mobilization plan. There
are a few copies of mobilization reg
ulations in the 1920 service unit
library at District reserve head
quarters available for issue to serv-
ice command officers on application.