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act of June Adjutant Air Service American appointed authorized base pay battle brigadier captain cemeteries cent Chairman chief warrant officer Colonel BRYSON Commander AUSTIN commissioned officers commissioned service commissioned warrant officer COMMITTEE ON MILITARY Comptroller Corps court-martial Department drachmas duty enlisted entitled fact favor Fort Bliss FROTHINGHAM GARRETT gentlemen Government grade Grover Cleveland hear HILL of Alabama HILL of Maryland HITTINGER HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HowZE HULL Infantry JOHN Judge Advocate JULIUS KAHN July June 30 Kenly land length of service letter Major BORDEN matter MCKENZIE MCSWAIN ment MILITARY AFFAIRS months Navy pay and allowances Planter Service President promotion Quartermaster question railroad rank received recommended record REECE regiment Regular Army retired list retired pay second lieutenant Secretary of War Secretary WEEKS Senate served SPEAKS statement tion United States Army WAINWRIGHT War Department Washington WURZBACH
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Page 2 - The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo; No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead.
Page 32 - An Act to readjust the pay and allowances of the commissioned and enlisted personnel of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and Public Health Service", approved June 10, 1922 (42 Stat.
Page 10 - Far, far away, thy children leave the land. 50 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 53 - Training Corps are maintained. In time of peace retired officers, retired warrant officers, or retired enlisted men shall not be detailed under the provisions of this section without their consent, and no officer on the active list shall be detailed for recruiting service or for duty at a school or college, not including schools of the service, where officers on the retired list can be secured who are competent for such duty. Hereafter retired officers below the grade of brigadier general and retired...
Page 6 - THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.
Page 39 - Army, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty in action with the enemy at Culis, Bataan Province, PI, January 16, 1942.
Page 45 - That the President is hereby authorized, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to advance in rank Colonel George W.