Activation of new aaa units - Air Defense Artillery

54 THE COAST ARTILLERY JOURNAL Jul)'-All gust
Career Guidance Program for enlisted personnel.
Substituted for the old adjectival notations, such as "excellent"
or "good," on the service record at time of transfer,
the efficiency rating will be a comprehensive report of the
soldier's performance. It will be rendered by his immediate
superior, in most cases a noncommissioned officer, and
checked and again rated on certain items by the officer or
warrant officer immediately superior to the rating person.
The use of enlisted personnel as rating officials for other
enlisted men is also a new departure.
The new efficiency reports will be used for the first time
when the Food Service Career field is officially instituted
in the near future. As other i:areer fields are opened, they
will be included in the rating system.
Efficiency reports will be used for enlisted men of all
grades excepting the seventh, or lowest, pay bracket. Men
in this pay grade are not considered specialists and therefore
cannot be rated on a specialty.
It is expected that the report will aid Army Personnel
Management Units in selecting men for specialized schooling,
promotion, assignment to responsible jobs, reclassification
and separation. The standard form for efficiency
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Navy Guided Missile Study
Guided missile research being conducted by the Navy
Department has recently delved into the possibilities of
"automatic celestial navigation."
Addressing a recent meeting of the Institute of Navigation,
a national organization of engineers and scientists,
Charles A. McPheeters, Director of Automatic Self-Navigation
for the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, stated that the
Navy is conducting research to determine the use of stars
in aiming guided missiles.
Automatic celestial navigation is based on a system of incorporating
in guided missiles, machinery which, like human
navigators on ships, will take constant bearings on
stars or other heavenly bodies. The ultimate purpose of such
a system would be to avoid disruption of direction signals
by the enemy.
- Mr. Mcpheeters stated that t\VOmethods under study
have proved "to a certain degree successfuL" One method is
the "automatic star seeker," where a missile mechanically
seeks out a selected heavenly body and "tracks" it throughout
the main part of its flight. The other method is by mechanical
computations based on two or more stars, determining
a missile's position in relation to the center of the earth.
He stated that certain systems, "still in a development stage,
hold promise of accomplishing this difficult task."
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Army's New System of Military Jnstice Goes Into
Effect February 1-
The Army's new system of military justice \\"'illgo into
effect earlv next year-and, almost simultaneously, Congress
\"ill be prep~ring to study the Na\'y's courts-martial
s\-stem.•
- Attached to the draft hill as an amendment, the Housesponsored
nei\' military justice system for the Army \\.-}Il
go into effecf February I-the first day of the eighth calendar
month after President Truman signed the bill into
law.
Its main features are:
1. Enlisted men have been authorized to sit as members
of a court-martial.
2. Officers are subjected to trial by special courts, as well
as by general courts.
3. Warrant officersare authorized to sit as member:, of'a
court.
4. Unlawful influence of courts-martial or courts-mafti.ll
members is prohibited.
5. An accused, if he so desires, may have coun",d ill
the pre-trial investigation. -
6. Authority to grant a bad-conduct discharge has been
granted to general and special courts.
7. The review and appellate provisions have been
strengthened.
8. A lesser punishment than death or life imprisonment
for murder or rape has been provided.
9. A lesser punishment than dismissal from service for
officersdrunk during time of war has heen provided.
10. The authority of commanding officers under the
104th article of war has been increased insofar as it pertains
to officers,but not to enlisted men.
11. A separate judge advocate general's corps has been
established.
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Additional National Guard Units
The following National Guard Coast Artillery Corps
units have been Federally recognized since the last issue 01
the JOURNAL:
California:
Battery "B," 68Ist AM AW Battalion, San Bruno.
Batterv "B," 719th AAA Gun Battalion, Clemeta.
Batter~ "C," 720th AAA Gun Battalion, Gardena.
Connecticut:
Battery "A," 238th AAA Gun Battalion, Mystic.
Batterv "B," 238th AM Gun Battalion, Groton.
Batte~ "C," 238th AM Gun Battalion, West Brook.
BatterY "D," 238th AM Gun Battalion, Niantic.
Medidal Detachment, 238th AM Gun Battalion, ::\'ew
London.
Georgia:
Batterv "C," 950th AAA A\V Battalion, Thomson.
1l1inois:.
Batterv "C," 396th AAA AW Battalion, Lerov.
Louisian~: -
Batterv "D," 769th AM Gun Battalion, Donalsonyille.
New Je;sev:
Headqu~rters & Headquarters Battery, 122d AA\ Gun
Battalion, Atlantic City.
Ne\\' York: -
Batterv "A," 715th AM Gun Battalion, Brooklyn.
Batte~T "B," 715th AM Gun Battalion, Brookl~'1l.
BatterY "C," 71Sth AM Gun Battalion, Brookl~'11.
North Carolina: '
Batterv "C," 677th AM AVol Battalion, Sanford.
Oregon:'
Headquarters & Headquarters Battery, 237th AA--\
Group, Portland.
Virginia:
Headquarters & Headquarters Battery, 224-th.-'-~ -\
Group, Glen Allen.