Evening star., 1940-02-11
Local Guard Officers Look
For Increased Field Exercises
Armoy Drill Periods May Also
Be Extended During Yeur

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Of the type they would be expected
to participate In time Of . conflict.
It was pointed out the great value,
from the mil.Sia standpoint, In such
maneuvers Is that the troops learn
to work with other units from their
general area, and further that divi.
sional work increased the interest Of
both the officers and the man, much
more than merely going into the
field at q base camp with those In
their own comparatively small unit.
Capt. EdTard H. Walter, Corps Of
Engineers. U. s. A., inspector In.
structor Of the local engineer resi.
ment, has been ordered to Phila-
delphia. Pa, from April 8 to 10 to
inspect the 103d Engineer Rssi-
ment Of the Pennsylvania National
Guard.
: Brigade headquarters announced
that Federal recognition had been
extended to the Service Battery.
This battery is a new unit, formed
as result Of the reorganization Of
the 260th Coast Artillery Anti-Air.
craft Regiment last month.
Pvt. Harlan F. Harvey, Battery r.
26th Coast Artillery. and Pvt. r. Noel
Relihan, Headquarters Company,
29th Division, have been honorably
discharged because Of removal from
the city.
Pvt. Jerry l.. Mercer. Company z,
12lst Engineers, and Pvt. Charles
r. Fisher. 104th Ordnance Com.
pany, have been placed on the In
active lists.
The 104th Quartermaster Corps
has completed its history, which has
also been approved by the War De.
partr1ent and the Army War Col
lege. where 1t will be filed for such
historical additions as the organiza-
ton makes from time to time either
in its militia status or during .
period of conflict. AS 1t is q new
organization. having had no World
War predecessor, the War College
noted that 1t is not entitled to any
battle honors.
Capt. Theodore w. Lowrie, at
tached to the headquarters stan Of
the 260th Coast Artillery Regiment,
has been ordered to Fort Monroe,
Va, to become a student at the
three-month course which has been
started there for officers Of the coast
artillery Of the National Guard.
Sergt. Charles A. Geyer, Battery
D, 260th Coast Artillery, has been
ordered to 60 to the Coast Artillery
School at Fort Monroe. Va, on Feb
ruary IA as a student for the cen.
trail stereoscopic height finder course.
He will be in attendance until April
l3.
With additional expensive auto
motive equipment being constantly
assigned to the local militia, the
officials are constantly faced with
the problem of preserving it In the
prime of condition while standing
in the open. The local militia does
not have sufncient garage space for
all of its vehicles, and those which
are stored are kept under conditions
which would make /: difncult to
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said. The garage at the rife range
at Camp Simms is said to be packed
with vehicles without even the
necessary aisles to get them out in
case of trouble. The coast artillery
has only few corrugated iron sheds
on the Washington Channel water
front, and many of their vehicles
have to stand out In the open all
the time.
T In order to protect them as far
as possible crews are kept constantly
busy waxing them. When the new
armory is Completed 1t is hoped to
have sufficient space to store all Of
the vehicles of all the units. How.
ever, the number is constantly In
creasing, and it Is expected that by
the time the new building is COM
pleted scores of other vehicles will
be assigned to the Guard in order
to furnish it with the necessary
equipment for 1t to move in the
field without the necessity OF bor-
rowing vehicles from the regular es-
tablishment or from other National
Guard 1,ritc
Pvt, first class, Robert r. Bierly
has been promoted to corporal, and
Corpl. Harvey J. Berse has been
elevated to sergeant in Battery H,
26Oth Coast Artillery.
The chief of the National Guard
Bureau has called on the local mil
itia to give aid to the Reserve ON
GERS Association of the United
States in its work of sponsoring
national defense week from Febru-
ary IL to 20. Regimental and sep
arate organization commanders
have been instructed to bring the
matter to the attention Of all mem-
bers of their command and to re-
spond to any request of the local
officers of the association, and brig
ade headquarters said that It will
have the units cooperate In every
way possible to make the celebra-
ton a complete success.
Because Of either military inter-
ference with the performance of
military duty or temporary removal
from the city, the following have
been transferred from the active to
the inactive lists: Corpl. Jacques M.
Kahn. Headquarters Detachment,
29th Division; Pvt. Noel T. Haralson,
Medical Department Detachment,
l04th Quartermaster Regiment;
Pvts. Reuben w. Jenkins, Clarence
G. Grow and James L. McGettigan,
Company A, l04th Quartermaster
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