Evening star., 1940-05-19
Extension Courses
Revised by Army
For Next Year
Officers to Get Only
Work Required to Fit
Them for Assignments

Beginning October /, the opening
of the 1940-4l school year, there
will be general revision of the
Army extension courses. The num-
bered series will be modified to in
clude. in general, only such instruc-
ton as is required to fit the officer
for his general mobilization assign
ment. The subcourses will be ar
ranged in series as at present.
Under the revision, the command
and general staff extension courses.
as whole, will be eliminated from
the so and 60 series of the extension
courses of the arms and services.
It will be retained for officers who
should take it by virtue of their
assignment particularly staff posi-
tionsl or for officers who have the
interest and time to pursue courses
in addition to those required. In
order to prepare Reserve and Ma
tional Guard officers for attendance
in the resident special course at the
Command and General Staff School
or the corps area staff schools, or
to prepare any officer for complet-
ing the Command and General Staff
School extension course, an abbre-
waited preparatory course is being
arranged. The elimination of the
Command and General Staff School
extension course from the so and so
series of arms and services now
using them will necessitate the sub
stitution of suitable arms and service
subcourses.
Approximately rs per cent of the
material to be included in a series
of subcourses or subject matter
within course, will be limited to
phases or subject matter to the
grade of the group concerned: the
remainder of the material will be
devoted to instruction applicable to
the next higher grade. For example,
the 40 series will be deovted pri-
marily to material essential for the
continuation of the instruction ini-
tiated in the latter part of the 30
series designed to fit the student to
perform the duties of a captain in
an appropriate assignment; the re-
mainder of the material will be
applicable to the duties of the grade
of major. Catalogues outlining the
new subcourses will be mailed to
officers.
District officers now enrolled
should complete the subcourse on
which they are now working be-
fore June 30.
District cavalry officers will meet
at Fort Myer today at $3.50 am. for
instruction in horsemanship. Rife
training will be given today at
Quantico, Va, to registered Re-
serve officers. The new infantry
drill will be the subject of the
428th Infantry conference tomorrow
evening. On Tuesday evening in
fantry officers will participate in a
staff exercise in preparation for
command post exercise, while Sig
nal Corps officers will take up a
corps signal communications prob
lem. The battle of Charlottesville
will be the subject of the mill
tary intelligence conference Wednes-
day evening. Ordnance officers will
discuss small arms and machine
guns on Thursday. Mobilization
units, consisting of the 1300th,
1308th, 1210th and 1322d Service
Units, will meet Friday evening,
while teams representing the Med
ical Corps and service units will
fire their pistol match at the range
of the Federal Bureau of Investiga-
ton. On May rs field artillery Of
ficers will hold an equitation class
| at Fort Myer.