Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-02-05
THE GENERAL STAFF CORPS

General Staff Corps; II was created
by an act Of Congress approved Feb
ruary IA, 1903. Its organization is pro-
yided for in section J of that act.
This section, amended. provides that
the General Staff Corps shall consist
of one chief OF staff and two general
officers, all to be detailed by the presi-
dent from officers of the army at large
not below the grade of brigadier-gen-
eral; four colonels, six lieutenant-col-
onels, and II majors. to be detailed
from the corresponding grades in the
army at large, under such rules for
selection as the president may pre-
scribe: II captains to be detailed from
officers of the army at large of the
grades of captain.
The chief of artillery or chief of
coast artillery shall be an additional
member of the General Staff Corps.
and his other duties shall be pre-
scribed by the secretary OF war
=" 4" That hereafter the chief OF the
division of military affairs, office of
the chief of staff, shall be detailed
from the general officers OF the line
of the army, and while so serving
shall be an additional member of the
General Staff Corps
Regulations.
The following are extracts from the
army regulations concerning the Cen
eral Staff Corps:
The General Staff Corps, created in
conformity to the act of Congress APP
proved February IA, 1903, is composed
of officers of the grades and number
specified in said act, detailed for serV-
ice in said corps for a period of four
years unless, sooner relieved, under
rules of selection prescribed by the
president. Upon being relieved from
duty in the General Staff Corps off.
GERS return to the branch of the army
in which they hold permanent COM
missions, and except in case of emer.
gericy or in time of war are not eligi'
BILE to further detail therein until they
have served for two years with the
branch of the army in which COM
The law establishes the General
Staff Corps as separate and distinct
staff organization, the chief of which
has supervision, under superior au-
thority, over all branches of the mill:
tary service, line and staff, except
such as are exempted therefrom by
law or regulations, with a view to
their coordination and harmonious CO.
operation in the execution of author.
lied military policies.
Duties.
The General Staff Corps, under the
direction of the chief of staff, is
with the duty of investigating
and reporting upon all questions af-
fecting the efficiency Of the army and
its state of preparation for military
operations, and to this end considers
the reports upon al questions relating
to organisations, distribution, equip
ment, armament, and training Of the
military forces (regulars, volunteers,
and nnlIitial, proposed legislative en-
actments and general and special reg.
ulations affecting the army, transpor.
tation communications, quarters and
prepares projects for maneu-
vers; revises estimates for appropria-
lions for the support of the army and
advises as to disbursements of such
exercises supervision
over inspections, military education |
and instruction, examinations for
the appointment and promotion
Of officers, efficiency records, de-
tails and assignments, and all or
iers and instructions originating in
the course OF administration in any
branch of the service which have re-
Iation to the efficiency of the military
forces. prepares important orders aid |
embodying the orders
and instructions of the president and
secretary of war to the army; reviews I
the reports of examining and retiring
boards, and acts upon such other mat
ters as the secretary of war may de-
termine. .e..>~ =.
The General Staff Corps, under like
is further charged with the
duty of preparing plans for the nation I
al defense and for the mobilization Of
the military forces Including the as
signment to armies, corps, divisions
and other headquarters OF the neces-
sary quota of general staff and other
staff offlcers) and incident thereto
with the study Of possible theaters of |
war and of strategic questions in gen.
eral; with the collection of military
of foreign countries and
If our own; the preparation of plans
IF campaign. Of reports of campaigns,
battles, engagements and expeditions
ind of technical histories of military
operations in the United States. Il
Duties Of Officers. ....:..
To officers of, the General Staff
Corps are committed the further du-
les of rendering professional aid and
assistance to the Secretary Of War
md to general officers and other SUI
Derior commanders and of acting as
heir agents in informing. and coord-
mating the action of, all the different
officers who are subject under the
PROVISIONS of law to the supervision
If The Chief of Staff.
They perform such other military
iuties not otherwise assigned by law
is may from time to time be prescrib-
I'd by the President. Under the au-
.hority here conferred officers of the
General Staff Corps are intrusted
With the executive duties hereinafter
49,. IA
Officers of the General Staff Corps
to duty with commanders II