Annual Report of the Secretary of WarU.S. Government Printing Office, 1916 |
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admission rate admission to sick Alaska American troops amount appropriation Arsenal buildings cadets Camp Camp Stotsenburg Canal Zone Cavalry cent Coast Artillery Corps command companies construction cost Deaths Department depot desertion detachment disability duty employees ending June 30 Engineers equipment Excision expenditures expenses external causes Field Artillery fiscal year 1915 fiscal year ending Fort Leavenworth Fort Sam Houston fortifications funds guns Harbor Hawaii Hospital Corps inches Incision increase Infantry installed instruction June 30 Lieut lieutenant manufacture mean strength Medical Corps ment Military Academy military posts Miscellaneous National noneffective rate officers and enlisted operation Ordnance Organized Militia Philippine Islands Philippine Scouts Porto pounds prisoners Quartermaster Corps quarters Ratio recruiting regiments Regular Army repair reserve River Secretary of War sick report Signal Corps soldiers stations supplies Surgeon Syphilis TABLE tion total number transportation Tuberculosis United venereal diseases Vera Cruz War Department
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Page 188 - That for the purpose of securing a list of persons specially qualified to hold commissions in any volunteer force which may hereafter be called for and organized under the authority of Congress, other than a force composed of organized militia...
Page 243 - That hereafter no officer or enlisted man in active service who shall be absent from duty on account of disease resulting from his own intemperate use of drugs or alcoholic liquors or other misconduct shall receive pay for the period of such absence, the time so absent and the cause thereof to be ascertained under such procedure and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War...
Page 278 - Army, and the chiefs of the several supply departments will furnish the governors of the several States and Territories and the commanding general of the District of Columbia...
Page 266 - The Secretary of War is authorized to appoint such number of quartermaster sergeants, Quartermaster Corps, not to exceed the number provided for by law, as he may deem necessary for the interest of the service, said quartermaster sergeants to be selected from the most competent noncommissioned officers of the Army, who shall have served therein at least five years, three years of such service having been rendered as a noncommissioned officer, and whose character and education shall fit them to take...
Page 622 - Diseases of the circulatory system Diseases of the respiratory system Diseases of the digestive system Diseases of the genitourinary system...
Page 131 - Department regulations, shall volunteer and be accepted for service in the Volunteer Army as such company, troop, battery, battalion or regiment, such organization may be received into the volunteer forces in advance of other organizations of the same arm or class from the same State, Territory, or District, and the officers in the organized land militia service with such organization may then...
Page 155 - The government and control of the United States Disciplinary Barracks and of all offenders sent thereto for confinement and detention therein shall be vested in the Adjutant General of the Army under the direction of the Secretary of War.
Page 538 - That the sum of $3,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be used for the publication from time to time of bulletins prepared under the direction of the Surgeon General of the Army for the instruction of medical officers when approved by the Secretary of War.
Page 808 - Candidates selected for appointment, unless accepted under the provisions of paragraph 21^, shall appear for mental and physical examination before boards of army officers to be convened at such places as the War Department may select, on the...
Page 130 - the Regular Army, the organized land militia while in the service of the United States, and such volunteer forces as Congress may authorize.