Evening star., 1939-08-13
Naval Reserve
Officers 10 Study
Land Maneuvers
LocoI Group Plans
To Observe War
Comes in Virginia

To Observe War
Games in Virginia
Fresh from tour Of duty In
which they participated in tao
tical maneuvers with division of
destroyers at sea several members
of the staff of 1t. w. Croft Jen-
nings, commander of the 1st Battal-
ion, District Naval Reserve, have
planned this week to observe the
maneuvers of other citizen forces
while in the field. It. Jennings and
Ensign H. Arthur Lamar will head
a group of officers which will go to
Quantico, Va, this afternoon to
5th Regiment, Marine Corps Re-
serve
Later in the week the same group
will go to the theater of opera
tions of the 1st Army to witness the
activities of the District troops in
one of their night maneuvers in
connection with the war maneuvers
in Northern Virginia.
While official figures have not
been received from the Navy Depart
ment as to the number of men
of the local battalion who were
successful in receiving appoint
ments to the United States Naval
Academy this year. it was said that
the number is approximately 30.
Information was received here that
the current class at the Academy
totals 300 and that the District bat
talon has about 10 per cent of
them.
Ensign H. Arthur Lamar, In
charge of the special division to
which the candidates are assigned,
said that already 83 men have been
assigned to his division and that he
expects the number to reach $50
before all of them are in. Full re-
ports of the transfers from other
units have not yet been received nor
have the men reported here for duty.
Efforts are being made to increase
the hospital corps of the Naval Re-
serve, particularly in the volunteer
classes. The American Red Gross,
it was said, is cooperating with the
Navy Department in its program of
recruiting qualified ratings in this
branch of the service, by bringing
to the attention of the men who
have received Red Cross certificates
of qualification in First Aid Train
ing" information regarding enlist
ments in the Naval Reserve.
The belief was expressed by the
Navy Department that personnel
who have been certified by the Red
Cross as qualified in first aid will
have no difficulty in meeting the pro-
fessional qualifications for enlist
ment as hospital apprentices, first
class; those who have received certi-
dcation as qualified in the Advanced
First Aid Courses" as pharmacists
mates, third class, and instructors
whose training and basic education
warrant, as hospitalized corpsmen in
the petty officer ratings from phar-
macist's mate. third class. to and
including chief pharmacists mates,
"ioii dSliilS appointments.
In the class of hospital corpsmer,
it was said that it is necessary for
the District medical officer or
medical officer appointed to repre-
sent the District commandant to
conduct the technical and physical
examinations for these applicants, to
make recommendations regarding
ratings for which qualified, etc.
1t is the policy of the Bureau of
Medicine and Surgery to commend
these hospital corpsmen, when called
to active duty, for assignments to
naval hospitals and larger medical
department activities in order that
indoctrination and training may be
continued and that regular hospital
corpsmen may be released for i'm
portant military duties.
In accordance with the terms Of
the new Naval Reserve Act. the
Secretary of the Navy has approved
a new class of aviation officers to
be known as class A-V(N). 1t will
be composed of officers, excavation
cadets, who are serving on con-
tinuous active duty. Under the pro-
visions of the act aviation cadets
serving on active duty after COM
pletion of training at Pensacola. will,
if qualified, be commissioned as
ensigns in the Naval Reserve. There
after, during the remainder of their
active duty, they will receive the
full pay and allowances of their
ranks as commissioned officers. After
three years of continuous active
service as ensigns they will be eligi-
BILE for promotion to lieutenant,
junior grade. subject to being found
qualified therefore by examination.
All members of a given class at
Pensacola will be considered to
have commenced their commissioned
service on the same date, and prece-
dence within classes will be in ac-
cordance with relative standing upon
completion at Pensacola.
officers commissioned pursuant to
the act may be employed on active
duty, in time of peace, only during
the seven-year period next follow
ing the dates of commencement of
commissioned service, except that
such officers may be ordered to duty
thereafter for the purpose of in
structing and training members of
the Naval Reserve, or for their own
training
Individuals who completed active
duty undergoing training as avia-
tion cadets, prior to June 13, last,
will, upon completion of four years
active duty, including the training
period at Pensacola be paid lump
sum of $1,000 minus the excess of
pay and allowances received by them
as ensigns over and above what
they would have received as aviation
cadets.
Upon actual release from active
duty after a period of continuous
service of four years or more, Of
ficers commissioned pursuant to the