Report of the Adjutant General of the Army to the Secretary of War |
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Page 16 - Information concerning the operation of the several academic departments, the enlarging of the Military Academy, discipline of the Corps of Cadets, and other matters of interest are to be found in the Annual Report of the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy. As it is customary to print that report with the other reports of the War Department, further reference to those subjects is omitted from this report. RECRUITING FOR THE REGULAR ARMY.
Page 28 - ... ribbon, together with a rosette or other device, to be worn in lieu thereof, to any person who, while serving in any capacity with the Army of the United States since the...
Page 15 - Under the authority conferred by sections 1, 2, 8, and 9 of the act of Congress authorizing the President to Increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States, approved May 18, 1917, the President directs that for the period of the existing emergency there shall be raised and maintained by voluntary Induction and draft a Students...
Page 11 - L., 1058), provides that every line officer on the active list below the grade of colonel who has lost in lineal rank through the system of regimental promotion in force prior to October 1, 1890, may, in the discretion of the President, and subject to examination for promotion as prescribed by law, be advanced to higher grades in his arm up to and including the grade of colonel, in accordance with the rank he would have been entitled to hold had promotion been lineal throughout the arm or corps to...
Page 28 - Force, distinguishes himself by extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy of the United States.
Page 7 - States, except members of staff corps and departments not included in the personnel of tactical organizations, and except such...
Page 29 - Those medals are issued by the Quartermaster General of the Army on data furnished by The Adjutant General's Office. They are, under the terms of the act cited, "to be presented to each of the several officers and enlisted men and families of such as may be dead, who, having volunteered and enlisted under the calls of the President for the War with Spain, served beyond the...
Page 29 - War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to procure a bronze medal, with suitable device, to be presented to each of the several officers and enlisted men and families of such as may be dead, who, having volunteered and enlisted under the calls of the President for the war with Spain, served beyond the term of their enlistment to help to suppress the Philippine insurrection, and who subsequently received an honorable discharge from the Army of the United States, or who died prior to such...
Page 11 - That all existing restrictions upon the detail, detachment, and employment of officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army are hereby suspended for the period of the present emergency.
Page 9 - Paragraph 5 of the orders mentioned provides that, while the number of commissions in each grade and in each staff corps, department, and arm of the service shall be kept within the limits fixed by law, officers shall be assigned without reference to the term of their commissions solely in the interest of the service; and...