Evening star., 1946-10-08
Dc. Area Cadets
And R0TC 10 Get
Latest Weapons
Army Assigns Quotas;
Maryland U. to Have
Largest College Unit
By Nelson M. Shepard

BY Nelson N. Shepard
High school cadets and other Re-
serve Officer Training Corps in the
Washington Military District. both
high school and college, soon will
be able to scrap their obsolete, pre-
war weapons and equipment for the
latest available Army types, mill
tary officials disclosed today.
The new deal is in line with q
War Department directive authoriz-
ing ROTC units throughout the
country to draw on Army stocks for
the modern weapons and training
equipment denied them necessarily
during the war. It comes as the
Army is rebuilding infantry and
medical units in some 176 colleges,
restoring advanced training courses
abolished during the war and in
augurating Air ROTC units for the
first time.
A spokesman for Brig. Gen.
G. B. Ferenbaugh, commanding the
Washington Military District, also
announced official quotas for the
high schools and four local uniyer-
stiles. together with the senior Army
officer In charge Of each.
$500 High School Quota.
The quotas and senior professors
Of military science and tactics, as
they are known in the Army, are:
Washington High School Cadet
Corps: 1880 quota, which includes
1000 in white high schools and ! 200
in colored high schools. The senior
officers. respectively, are 1t. Col.
william e. Barkman and 1t. Col.
Henry Atwood, both infantry.
1t. Col. George A. Patrick, retired,
1901 North Patrick street, Arlington,
will be in charge Of the $50 cadets
at st. Johns College here, the $40
quota at Alexandria's George WASH
ington High School and the 375
cadets at Washington-Lee High in
Arlington.
Col. Patrick, who retired in 1910,
served In World War I as Coast
Artillery officer and has seen serv-
ice in Panama and the Philippines.
He was senior ROTC instructor at
Citadel Military College, South Caro-
lima, for four years.
The high. school units are con-
fined to basic training. The Army,
it was explained. does not recognize
the girls cadet corps in the Wash
ington high schools as part Of the
ROTC.
Quotas fixed for the universities
in the Washington area are:
University of Maryland, l,225 In
infantry. Signal Corps and air
units. Col. H. C. Griswold, infan-
try, Is senior in command.
$50 at G. u. and Howard.
Georeetown University, $50 IN In
'fahtry, medical and air units. with
Col. John g. Whitcomb, infantry,
the senior oflcer.
Howard University, $50 in in
fantry and air units; Col. T. W..
SWEET, senior officer.
George Washington University
$50, medical basic and advanced;
1t. Col. A. E. Brigulio, Medical
Corps, senior officer.
Ofiicials said the Maryland Uni
versity unit has been given the
largest quota of any university In
the Central Eastern States. George
town, Maryland and Howard Uni
versitieS have had ROTC units since
the World War.
The infantry units in these, uni
versities will have both basic and
advanced courses, and the medical
units at Georgetown and George
Washington are being restored.
ALI the universities, packed now
with returned war veterans, are
hoping to enlist them in the ad-
vanced units, which lead, after two
years, to commissions in the Off,
GERS Reserve Corps. The Army Is
gradually filling up the officer quo-
tas for the various ROTC units.
The officers selected for this work
have been given special Army train
ing courses for this phase Of duty.
Rocket Weapons Included.
The Washington Military Dis
trict, it was said, Is now assembling
new weapons and equipment for
distribution to the high school and
college units In this area. All high
school cadets will be furnished with
Arrny's MI rifles, which were con-
ceded to be the best automatic
rifles in any army during the war.
Army officials say equipment for
the college infantry units will in
clude automatic rifles and pistols,
late types of mortars, bazookas and
other rocket weapons in use dur
ing the war and the newest air.
cooled machine guns Every unit
will have its quota of jeeps and
21a ton trucks.
Signal Corps units will be pro-
vided with the latest communica-
tions equipment which will be made
available, also, to infantry units for
demonstration purposes.
Until firing ranges are set up,
the ROTC men will be given in
struction only in the nomenclature
of the new weapons and study
methods of their employment in
combat.
Army uniforms will be issued to
all men in the basic courses, which
provide for two years of elementary
training. Men in the advanced
courses, however, will be given
clothing allowances and may pur-
chase them from commercial uni
form shops or draw on quarter
master stores.
At Georgetown University, 1t was
said, arrangements have been made
to draw from the quartermatser, so
that individual uniforms for the
two-year course may be obtained
for $3.50.
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