Evening Star Newspaper, October 10, 1926, Page 36

|Ar Announcement has been made by Maj. Gen. Robert H. Allen, chiet of Infantry, of the policy governing the recommendations for attendance of Regular Infantry officers at the serv- Ice schools for the 1927-28 school year. The selec- tion of about 72 officers to attend the advanced course at the In- fantry School will be made from the fleld officers and senior ‘captains, who will be eligi- ble to undergo the rommand and gen- eral staff school course of instruc- tion within three or four years fol- yaj GEN. ALL lowing their graduation. Approximately 170 Infan. try officers, selected from the captains, sirst lieutenants and a few of the sec- ond lieutenants on duty at Fort Ben- ning, will compose the company. offi- cers' course at the Infantry School. Twenty Regular Infantry officers of all grades will be sent to the Tank School for a course of instruction. About a score of Regular Infantry offi- cers will attend the course of instruc- tion at the Signal School. This group will be selected from first and second Jieutenants, and in order to be eligible 10 undergo this course they must possess a technical education and must indicate in writing that they will not make application for trans fer to any other branch of the Regu- Jar Army within four years after their graduation from the signal course. The indications are that about seven Infantry officers will be sent to the various civil education institu- tions—two to the Chemical Warfare School, two to the French Tank School and one to the Ecole de Guerre, the French school of war. One Infantry officer, according to the yresent plans, will be sent to each of the following service ield Artillery, Coast Artillery Cory Marine Corps School, (¢ eer Corps and Air C: In order to be eligible for school details student officers must have had at least three years of com- missioned service, be mnot over 50 vears of age and have an efficiency yating of average or better. Discontinuation is to be made by the Regular Army of the semaphore hand flag system of visual signal communication, The death knell of this means of communicatjon was sounded during the World War, dur- ing which the rapid strides made in the improvement in the field use of telegraph, telephone and radio result- ed in little recourse to visual sig maling. Distribution has been made by the War Department of training regula- 195-40, prepared by the chief of Engineers, which sets forth the |% fundamentals of camouflage for ev arm of the service. In the first section is given the general the- pretical principles, while in the sub- | pequent sections there is taken up | §n detail the elements and auxiliary | works of a defensive position in prep- | mration for attack. The camoufl: of artillery, which Is quite an ex pive subject and requires differ treatment, s covered in training regulations 195 The second sec- tion of this regulation embraces gen- | eral camouflage practice: the third #ection deals with artillery in posi- tions, while the fourth section ouches on the scope and methods f instruction. NAVY. With the approach of the next ses- Kion of Congress there is the subject ©of considerable conjecture in naval cir- cies as to just what will be evolved to change the existing conditions of per- gonnel promotion, discharge and re- tirement. There is a certain group in the Navy who feel that any change of | ® radical nature could be postponed or | might be permanently abandoned as a project. On the other hand, there are those who hold to the view that it is @ matter of service personnel efficiency @nd that remedial measures should be | taken. The indications are that the | Navy line personnel situation will be- vome the subject of considerable dis- cussion at the next session of Con- on duty as assistant commandant of the third naval district and port di- rector of New York, will be ordered by the Navy Department to Aslatic station for duty. Capt. Herbert C. Cooke, commandant of the naval air station at Hampton Roads, Va., will be relieved by Comdr. Albert C. Read, who has been on duty with the air- craft squadrons of the battle fleet. The former officer, pending his assign- ment to sea duty, will be given a tem- porary shore assignment. Lieut. Comdr. Thomas G. Berrien, who has been on duty in the office of the in- spector of engineering material at New York, will be assigned to com- mand submarine division 2, control force. He will relleve Lieut. Comdr. John A. Brownell, who will come to this city for duty in the Bureau of Engineering, Navy Department. Six line officers of the Navy have become due for promotion to the next higher grades on the dates indicated: Lieut. Comdrs. Harold T. Smith and 0. M. Hustvedt, Lieut. P. R. Glutting and Lieut. (junior grade) T. F. Well- 'ings, September 27; Lileuts. (junior grade) J. C. Van Cleve and J. F. Grube, October 1. A board composed of eight officers of the Marine Corps has been ap- pointed for the purpose of making a thorough study of the promotion sit- uation which exists at the present time in that corps. Promotions to the various grades in the Marine Corps, it has been brought out, are far behind those of officers of the Navy to cor- responding grades in the Navy that entered the service at or about the ame time. and unless remedial actidn is taken the situation promises to be- come worse from year to year. The measures that the board will recom- mend for the establishment of a system for acceleration of promotion in the arine Cor and for its equalization, as far as practicable, with that {n the Navy, necessarily will include elimination features ap- plying probably to all except the low- est one or two grades. The pending Britten bill, which relat>s to promo- tion in the Navy, contains some fea- tures that might be applicable, in principle, to the Marine Corps, and the hoard will take this into account in r' tion of the measure for Cor The board consists of the : Brig. Gen. Ben H. Fuller, Harold C. Reisinger, Lieut. . Douglas C. McDougal and Rich- ard B. Creecy; Majs. Ralph S. Keyser, Edwin H. Brainard and Selden B. Kennedy and Capt. Charles Ubel. Second Lieut. Raymond P. Coffman, U. S. M. C., has become due for pro- motion to the next higher grade as the result of the resignation of First Lieut. Francis B. Reed, which went into effect October 1. Seven officers of the Navy Medical Corps have been nominated by the Surgeon General off the Navy as candi- dates for fellowship in the American College of Surgeons. It has been the annual custom for a number of years for the college to invite the Surgeon neral of the Navy to nominate a pecified number of medical officers in the college, and it is assumed that the privilege will again be extended to the Navy this coming year. It has been the fixed policy of the Bureau of Melicine and Surgery, however, to nominate only those officers that in the opinion of the Surgeon General meet the high standards of profes- slonal qualifications set by the col- lege. The following have recently been nominated by the Surgeon Gen- eral in the coliege: Lieut. Comdrs. Frederic L. Conklin, Francis E. Locy, Lewis G. Jordan, John F. Riordan, Elphege A. M. Gendreau, Horace Boone and Lieut. Henry C. Weber. Three officers of the Navy Medical Corps have been found qualified for promotion to the next higher grade, Lieuts. Leo L. Davis and Marvin M. Gould to the rank of lieutuenant com- mander, and Lieut. (j. g) Willlam R. Manlove for the rank of lieutenant. Lieut. Comdr. John V. McAlphin of the Navy Dental Corps, who has been attached to the Naval Medical School in this city, left last week for the Northwestern University Dental School at Chicago, where he will un- dergo a 10-week course of post- graduate instruction. Kill the A great deal of interest, it i Yieved. will be centered on the s of those officers who were appe from sources other than the Academy. During the past two several bills have been prepared, and come instances introduced, the | pplied to this class of officers were anything but encour- | @ging to them. Confronted with the| yrospect of some legislation and with @ desire to secure impartial consider- | @ation, a_number of these officers en- | deavored to co-ordinate the views of others similarly situated and at_the game time co-operate with the Navy Pepartment in reaching a_solution of > persc problem. In November « last ve: these officers did agree upon a basis for promotion and elimi mation which later was presented to the departmental board. In effect, they licated their acquiescence in the re- | of that provision of the act of 920, which provided an as- riod of service in the upper grades. They did, however, request that they be assured (1) an equal op- portunity with graduates of the Naval Acad-my to continue in the service; 2 minimum of 14 years' service be- ce elimination as a lieutenant; ()| credit for all service for the purpose of computing retirement; (d) retired pay of 21 per cent basc Pay per ye: otal service as now compute yay purposes: (e) for those offi without service prior to the war an| ample provision in the form of a cash gratuity, and (f) voluntary retivement | of lieutenants with 20 of total service, provided they yeached the age of 45 years. Figur were submitted which conclusively tablished that a great saving of money be made if such a plan wer opted : | B ther subject which Will invoke | ted discussion is that of incr age of retirement in the Navy | o years, or at 66 years of | Asked as to how the preseent went of ser in grade had | arrived at, and by what proc 11 been decided that office should serve but so man car Admiral W. R. Shoer . chief of the Bureau of Navigation, as pointed out that officers were eliminated on the theory that the \whole Navy should be a live organiza- tion of voung, energetic officers in the various grades. From other cources the belief has been expressed that the ages should be changed so that the Navy and the G ld get longer service from s in the different grades. and it ted that Congress does not look 2y great favor on retiring an se he has reached To lengthen service, it has been reminded, would bring officers to the grade of rear admiral with but four vears to serve before retirement. Those in fa- vor of lengtheming the service of offi- cers until they reached the age of 66 feel quite positive that the efliciency and morale of the Navy would not be jmpaired by requiring this additional service, in view of the fact that the physically unfit would be eliminated ihrough the vearly medical examina- tions. 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