Annual Report of the Secretary of WarU.S. Government Printing Office, 1916 |
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admission rate Alaska American troops amount appropriation Arsenal authorized Barracks battalion batteries Bureau Camp Camp John Hay Camp Stotsenburg Canal Zone Capt Cavalry cent civilian Coast Artillery Corps command Company Congress construction cost deaths defense depot disability discharges duty ending June 30 Engineers equipment Excision Field Artillery fiscal year 1916 fiscal year ending Fort Mills Fort Sam Houston funds guns Harbor Hawaii hospital increase Infantry instruction July June 30 manufacture mean strength Medical Corps ment Mexican border military Militia Miscellaneous mobilization National Guard noncommissioned officers noneffective rate officers and enlisted operation Ordnance Organized Militia Philippine Islands Philippine Scouts Quartermaster Corps quarters Ratio recruiting regiments Regular Army repair Reserve Corps result River sanitary Secretary Secretary of War sick report Signal Corps soldiers Staff stations supply Surgeon TABLE tion total number transportation Tuberculosis United venereal diseases War Department
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Page 70 - An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes...
Page 79 - Congress last hereinbefore cited, and they shall not be permitted .to assume or engage in work of an administrative nature that pertains to established bureaus or offices of the War Department, or that, being assumed or engaged in by members of the General Staff Corps, would involve impairment of the responsibility or initiative of such bureaus or offices, or would cause injurious or unnecessary duplication of or delay in the work thereof...
Page 954 - That every officer and enlisted man of the militia who shall be called forth in the manner hereinbefore prescribed, shall be mustered for service without further enlistment, and without further medical examination previous to such muster, except for those States and Territories which have not adopted the standard of medical examination prescribed for the Regular Army: Provided, however, That any officer or enlisted man of the militia who shall refuse or neglect to present himself for such muster,...
Page 70 - ... officers may be temporarily assigned to duty with any branch of the Army. Upon being relieved from duty in the General Staff Corps...
Page 207 - ... conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.
Page 837 - The President of the United States is hereby authorized and empowered to make, or cause to be made, such investigation as in his judgment is necessary to determine the best, cheapest, and most available means for the production of nitrates and other products for munitions of war and useful in the manufacture of fertilizers...
Page 25 - That the President is authorized in 'his discretion to utilize the services of postmasters of the second, third, and fourth classes in procuring the enlistment of recruits for the Army, and for each recruit accepted for enlistment in the Army, the postmaster procuring his enlistment shall receive the sum of $5.
Page 37 - In addition to military training, soldiers while in the active service shall hereafter be given the opportunity to study and receive instruction upon educational lines of such character as to increase their military efficiency and enable them to return to civil life better equipped for industrial, commercial, and general business occupations.
Page 954 - Hereafter the period of enlistment in the National Guard shall be for six years, the first three years of which shall be in an active organization and the remaining three years in the National Guard Reserve, hereinafter provided for, and the qualifications for enlistment shall be the same as those prescribed for admission to the Regular Army...
Page 358 - For continuing the construction, equipment, and maintenance of suitable buildings at military posts and stations for the conduct of the post exchange, school, library, reading, lunch, amusement rooms and gymnasium...