Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-04
Stanley Views
18th Division
With M'KeIdin
BY CHARLES A. McALEER
Star STAT Correspondent

Star STAFF Correspondent
INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa, Aug.
4.-Inspection visits by the Gov
errors of Maryland and Virginia
today highlighted the encamp-
ment of some 7,400 National
GuardSmen as they reached
midpoint in their two-week
training period.
Gov. McKeldin of Maryland
and Gov. Stanley of Virginia
were to review the Guards goth
Infantry Division, which draws
its strength from the two States.
Last Thursday, Gen. Maxwell
P. Taylor. Army Chief of Staff,
came here on visit which is
rare for an officer of such high
rank.
The 29th's commander is Mai.
Gen. Henry C. Evans, 60-year-
old Baltimore investment banker,
who has been member of the
division since 1921 except for
three years during World War II.
THE state of training" he
said, sis ahead of last year."
Over 500 Recruits
This is so. he said, despite the
number of recruits and teen
ayers with the division. The gen.
eral said there are more than
500 recruits-men with less than
three months service.
During their first week here,
all recruits, regardless of unit.
were trained together in basic
Army subjects. Many are boys
who enlisted before draft age
so they could fulfill their entire
eight-year reserve obligation in
the Guard.
The other Guardsmen went
through rugged program rang
ing from firing on target ranges
to tactical bivouacs in the field
These men whose predecessors
in World War II trained at Fort
Meade and then landed on the
beaches of Normandy on D-Day, ,
1914, seem to realize that the
training period is short and are
making the most Of it. They are
putting into practice what they
learned at their armorieS Lack
home attending drills one night
q week.
OF those wearing the familiar
blue-and-gray shoulder patch are
some 1.400 whose homes are in
communities close to Washing
ton. In all, there are l6 such
company size units.
81 From Silver Spring
In Maryland. Montgomery and
Prince Georges Counties have
about 400 men mere. The l15th
Infantry Regiment, Maryland's
county regiment. has 81 men
from its Service Company in Sill
yer Spring, commanded by Capt.
Robert E. Bullard, l00l3 Portland
road, Silver Spring. This is the
unit responsible for supply. main
tenance, administration, mail and
transportation for the entire regi-
ment. It's a company which
holds weekly drills Tuesday
nights at the Silver S.ring
Armory.
From Kensington. the same
regiment has Heavy Mortar
Company, now commanded by
1st 1t. John C. Butler of Eli
colt City. His unit has the big
AZ mortars. the guns which
serve as the "infantry's artil-
lery." 1t meets at the Ken
sington Armory Monday nights
and came here with "a men, most
of them from the Silver Spring
Kensington Wheaton Rockville
area. About 20 per cent Of its
men are war veterans, including
MtSergt. Richard E. Hawkins of
Damascus, a former Marine. and
lst Sergt. Herbert S. Dana. 1882
Jennings road. Kensington. a
veteran Of the 7th Armored
Division fighting in Europe. The
company commander was Navy
sailor in World War II.
Greenbelt. Md, has Battery
A Of the 224th Field Artillery
Battalion. 1t is commanded by
Capt. Baxter Phillips Of Laurel
and has 60 men and officers
here. About half Of its men
are recruits who had to train
separately instead of living in
the field under simulated COM
bat conditions.
From Laurel, Md, are 10 Of
ficers and men assigned to the
224th's Battery c. commanded
by Capt. Charles E. Little. Like
other members Of their battalion
commanded by 1t. Col. John c.
Handy Of Gainesville, they went
out on bivouac their very first
day. didn't come back to camp
until Friday night, and then
are to go back out tomorrow
for the rest Of the encamp-
ment Their l05-millimeter how
tiers have been extremely active
Frederick Represented
Farther out in Maryland. the
ii5th Infantry Regiment has
f.or,papv A and Medical Cnnn