Evening star., 1941-01-12
Naval Reserve Units
May GET Active
Duty in the Spring
Divisions Will Be
Ready and Equipped
For Prompt Service

For Prompt Service
While the two local Naval Reserve
divisions remaining in the city are
intensifying their drill schedules ana
preparing the equipment for can
into the service, the prevailing
opinion in Naval Reserve circles is
that they will not be called into
the service until spring. There is
no official explanation for this eX-
cept perhaps that the Navy Is get
ting enough personnel from othe-
sources, such as officers and men
volunteering for service.
However, the two divisions are
in need of a number OF enlisted
men to bring their allotted strength
up. Nearly so men are needed for
this purpose.
The local headquarters also is
seeking young men, IN unlimited
numbers, to be sent to the naval
aviation schools for training to be
officer pilots in the Navy. Appi-
cantS for this service must have at
least two years of college work TO
their credit before they will be &C
cepted, because the training is rather
stiff and the men must be able to
assimilate the information and in
struction on navigation, gunnery
and other technical subjects neces-
sary to perfect their training as
naval aviatorS.
In the case of young men de-
string to enter the Naval Reserve
service it was said that the vast
majority of them probably would
want to go into this branch of
the service where the opportunity
| to receive a commission is good,
rather than to go into the seagoing
branch as enlisted men. This has
had some effect on the recruiting.
Another reason, it was explained,
! for the inability to obtain young men
/ for the sea-going Reserve is that
the Government also has taken into
the service number of young men
with college training and has sent
/ them to sea for a month TO de-
| termine whether they like the
service or whether the service likes
| them.
These men. upon completing the
sea duty, will be sent TO schools
in various parts of the country for
a period of three months, and upon
the successful completion of this
short course they will be COM
missioned ensigns in the Naval Re-
serve. The demand for appoint
ments in this service was so great
that the Navy has waiting list
and the enlistments in the other
branches of this service apparently
has suffered.
While it was said that the seago-
ing training has been completed. the
men who successfully passed have
been sent to their homes until there
is a vacancy for them at one Of the
schools. No more are being taken
in for this branch at this time, and
the only opportunity to get COM
missions is in the aviation branch.
1t will be next September it was
said, before all Of the present candi-
dates will have completed after
which time, it is possible that the
Navy may call for more recruits for
this service.
There is a possibility that one OF
the local divisions may be left on
duty here until July l. it was said.
because there are number of en-
listed men attached to the battalion
who are candidates for appoint
ment to the Naval Academy from
the Reserve. These men will take
their competitive examinations in
April, for appointments to enter
the academy in July
The question uppermost in the
minds of local Reserves is what will
be done after July !. in the event
that all of the organized units are
called into the service. Men who
want to enter the academy in 1912
will have no place to comply. The
suggestion has been made that after
all of the local organized units are
sent to sea that the Navy may desire
to organize at least another division
here, if for no other purpose than
to provide means of fulfilling the
laws requirement as to drill attend
ance. While there is little likelihood
that there will be any annual
cruises for full units OF the Re-
serve. all of which are expected to
be in the service by next September,
it was pointed out that cruise op-
portunitieS may be provided for the
Naval Academy candidates, by send
ing them to various ships in the ac-
! tive service.
The Naval Communications Re-
serve Division has not received any
indications that it will be called
into the service as a unit, it was said.
However, a number Of members of
this division had been transferred to
the organized divisions to fill out
their compliments.
Treasury Auxiliary
United States Department Of Agri-
culture Unit met at the All States
Hotel, 5l4 Nineteenth street NV,
on January g. Vice President Pearl
Heagerty presided.
The applications of Theresa
Mariotti and Elsie Roistacher were