Evening star., 1939-03-12

service medals and trophies for
longevity and for competitions, as
we'll as other acts performed for
which the District National Guard
awards them, are expected to re-
ceive them about May /. Prepara-
tions are being made by Sbrigade
headquarters, under the direction
of Brig. Gen. Albert L. Cox, COM
manding the local militia, to have
general assembly of the Gurad
about that time SO that the winners
may be brought before the whole
command to properly signify their
accomplishments.
Orders were issued last week d.
rectlng the commanding officers to
make a survey of their rosters and
records to ascertain all individuals
Who will be entitled to the award
OF service medals for 10 years or
more service on May /, next, and
TO have tl.eir recommendation at
brigade headquarters prior to April
l. Only recommendation received
prior tc.that da.e will be considered.
The other awards are practically
all settled, most of them being Tor
various riff competitions in which
the local militiaMen have fartici-
pated during the last year. How
ever, there are other. special service
awards to be made, as outlined n
recent orders of the commanding
general, and these are expected to
be announced in short time, among
them being the attendance trophy
,sfor the unit which had the best
/ attendance in tho local militia dur
ing the laso year.
These reports must be prepared
by. the commanding officers, who
are in the midst, most of them,
of making preparations for the an
nual armory inspections of officers
of the Regular Army sent here
from various posts for this purpose
These inspections were inaugurated
last week. with the tests for Com
pany C, 121st Engineers. on Wednes-
day, and will be continued through
out the month until all of the units
have passed through them. The
other units inspected last week were
Company B, Company A and the
Headquarters, 1st Battalion, ell
parts of the Engineer Regiment
The following will be inspected
| this week: Headquarters and Med
ical Department Detachment, l21st
Engineers. tomorrow night; Head
quarters and Service Company and
the band on Tuesday; Company F,
Wednesday: Company E. Thursday,
and the Headquarters, I'd Battalion
and Company D, on Friday This
will complete the Engineer Regiment
inspections for the current year.
In order to obtain as large an
attendance as possible for the Army
Corps maneuvers in Northern Vir-
, ginia this summer, members of the
local militia have been urged to
obtain copies of the tentative order
for the field service in order that
they may file it with their requests
to their civilian employers when
making the request for leave for
this military duty.
Every available man is to be
turned out for this important field
duty which will give them flrst-hand
! training in the type of service they
would be expected to perform in the
event of real hostilities. In view Of
| the fact that these maneuvers only
come at irregular intervals. every
member of the Guard is to be en-
couraged to participate. The service
is quite different from the regular
fixed camp, where there is little
opportunity to maneuver with all
arms of the service. as contemplated
during the approaching operations
over the Civil War battlefield area
adjacent to the Capital City.
Every effort is to be made during
the operations to approach as near
as possible to war strength of the
companies, and to that extent the
| Army corps area has just announced
its plans for having the members of
/ the Officers Reserve Corps of the
area attached to the National Guard
units for duty, giving them also an
| opportunity to get some valuable
| training under actual field condi-
tions.
The general plan for this partici-
patton has been announced to the
local brigade officers by the COM
manding general of the Sd Corps
Area as follows: To assign to Ma
tional Guard units for proposed
1st Army maneuvers for duty, suf-
| ficient officers to increase the
F, officer personnel of each National
! Guard unit to war strength, to fur
nish each Regular Army chief of
staff of the Organized Reserve divi-
sions with a list of the National
Guard units in the area covered by
his division; to circularize Reserve
officers in this area, advising them
of the opportunity to serve during
the naneuvers with a National
Guard unit; to require Reserve Off
GERS who desire duty with the Ma
tional Guard to obtain the approval
of company, battalion or other or
ganization commander concerned:
in the event that sufficient officers
to fill war strength compliments are
not obtained by the above method,
to provide National Guard -nits with
list of other Reserve officers avail
able for assignment; t. permit chiefs
OF, staffs of the Organized Reserve
divisions to correspond directly with
the State adjutants general and with
Organization commanders in co-ordi-
mating the assignment of Reserve
officers to duty.
1t was further explained that the
corps area commander has no inten-
,ion of asking National Guard units
to place Reserve officers in position
of command. Regardless of relative
rank, they are to be used solely as
determined by the National Guard,
and will perform such duty as may
be specifically delegated to them by