Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-10-31
Men.
Report tuesday
For Induction
J Druftees to Go
To Comp Pickett
For Training

The curtain goes up on the second
peacetime draft this week as the
first group of 25-year-old men 60
into the Army for 81 months.
Seven District men will report
to the Army and Air Force recruit
ing Office for induction at $3.50 am.
Tuesday as the first contingent of a
quota of SIS. Nationally the Army
has asked for 10000 men and their
inductions will be spread through
out the month. An additional $4,000
will be taken in December and 90
900 in January.
The draft is designed to build up
the Army from $4,000 to 928,oO
men by next June 80. The Navy,
Air Force and Marine Corps are OBJ
tanning sufficient volunteers to fill
their needs
First Draftees Named.
The first men to be indicted here
will be:
William M. Mumaw, PAST Tunlaw
road NV, grocery employe; Jesse
S. Bowen, 1881 Twenty street
NV, driver; Leonard L. Lewis, 1927
Kalorama road NV, postoffice lab
orer; Aurelio B. Collado, BIS Que
sada street NV, salesman.
William I. Lee, 1924 S street
NV, bartender; Charles A. Reese,
1727 Massachusetts, avenue NV,
Army clerk; and Quintin A. Hill,
1853 Willard street NV, clerk.
The Army has been getting ready
for months to receive the S75-a-
month draftees and a infinitely
detailed training program to enable
them to take over responsible duties
as soon as possible has been worked
out.
After simple induction proceed
ings at the recruiting station, dur
ing which the oath is administered,
the District men will be sent to
Camp Pickett, near Blackstone, Va,
for basic training There they will
become recruits, the Army's official
title for them.
40-Hour Week Planned.
The department has said that
recruits would be sent to training
camps nearest their home but added
that this might not be possible in
every instance. There are seven
other widely scattered camps.
At Camp Pickett the recruits will
learn their left-right routine, how
to fire a rifle, how to look neat in
"a fitted uniform (there will be
tailors at the camp to make sure
the recruits are properly fitted and
commanding officers are being held
responsible for seeing that they look
right, and countless other basic"
military things. They will operate
on strict 40-hour week.
The District recruits first viii get
an orientation talk, be shown about
the premises, meet their command
ing officer and be instructed to write
home Immediately to give their new
address.
Clothing, bedding, eating uten-
sils and other equipment will be
issued. A dozen or so aptitude tests
and immunization shots against
major diseases will be given.
That will consume the better part
of this week and then the 32O-hour
intensive basic training will start.
Schedules Outlined.
Schedules call for 70 hours to be
spent on rifle Authorization and
range firing. The recruit will use
the standard 80 cailber MI Ca
rand rifle and the 80 caliber car
bine. He will learn of the weapons
mechanisms and how to clean them.
Physical training - calisthenics,
obstacle courses, etc.-and tactical
notwithstanding and patrolling,
cover and movement, erection of
hasty Notifications, practice in COM
bat formations, etc.-will require 80
hours each.
In the sixth week the recruits will
60 on short marches and learn
something about bivouacs and the
seventh week will be spent in the
field of combat maneuvers. But
there will be no live" firing dur
ing such maneuvers.
Tests in Eighth Week.
The eighth week will be exam
nation and graduation" time for
the recruits. They will brush up
on the whole basic training pro-
gram and then undergo general
military subjects test. Those who
do not pass will remain behind in
the basic training.
I For those who do pass the Army
will have a new title-privates-and
a IS a month raise.
Most of the privates will be due
for more, advanced training, either
here or abroad.
When its units get to authorized
strength, the Army plans to
lengthen its basic training course to
Is weeks. The draft law will re-
main on the books until June "a.
1850, unless Congress changes or
extends it.