The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-29

Ambulance company 80. 5 %
War
Strength
Officers. Men
First regiment ......... Sc 2,O02
Second, regiment Sc 1902
Troop "A ....... ~
Troop loo
Coast artillery, (13 com
panleS) .......'. % l'o|1
Field artillery, g battal-
llOnS) ............. Io ooV
Radio company 10
Field hospital ...... 3 10
Ambulance company 49,. 3 l5O
It will be seen from this that the
First regiment is short both officers
and men; the Second regiment short
of officers; Troop A short one Off.
Ger; Troop B above strength; the
Coast Artillery short Of officers and
men; the Field artillery short of off,
GERS and men, and the Radio COM
pany short two men, and the Field
Hospital and Ambulance companies
short both of men and officers. The
shortage of officers will be largely
made up after the examinations and
the shortage of men, except in the ca
ses of the Field artillery and the First
regiment, is not marked. The peace
strength after July 1, 1917, will be
increased, under the provisions of the
National Defense act, and after July
| 1, 1918, it will become the same as
for like units of the regular army.
Only two companies in the First
regiment Companies and G, in Mid
n nd
pectively, have the required number
ly. one officer. The remainder have
, two. The peace strength Of let
tered company is three officers and
sixty-five men; it's war strength is
three officers and $50 men. Nine Of
| the companies are below peace
strength as regards men. The
strength of the lettered companies is:
Company A. one officer, "a men;
| Company B, two officers, 62smen; c.,
8 officers, sc men; D, 2 officers 70
| men; E, 2 officers, 46 men; F, 2 Of
ficers, 46 men; F, 2 officers, 66 men;
G., 8 officers 80 men; H, 2 officers, 68
| men; I, 2 officers, 81 men; L, 2 officers
Al men; M, one officer, 62 men. OF
| the other companies, the Headquar-
| tiers company, whose peace strength
should be one officer and fifty-eight
| men, has one officer and seventeen
men; the Machine Gun company,
which should have four officers and
| fifty-three men, has three officers and
forty eight men; and the Supply COM
pany, which should have two officers
and thirty-seven men, has one officer
and nineteen men. The regiment has
no chaplain.
The same condition prevails in the
| Second regiment, in a modified form.
TT has five companies with the requi-
site three officers and four with only
one Five companies A, C. D, n and
| M, have required strength. The Ma
chine Gun, Headquarters and Sup
ply companies are all below strength,
the Supply company lacking one Off
Ger and about ten men and the others
| lacking about twenty men apiece. Five
of the lettered companies are below
strength as regards men. One, Com
pany A, has ten more men than are
required for war strength, and has
| three officers. 1t is a Waterbury
company. The First Separate com
pany, whose headquarters are at New
Haven, has two officers and fifty seven
men.
The peace strength of battery of
field artillery is five officers and 1875
men. Battery E has five officers and
LA men; Battery F has four officers
and 100 men. The war strength is
| five officers, and 100 men. The bat
teries have just returned from the Dor
der.
| The peace strength of a company of
| coast, artillery is three officers and six
| ty-f1ve men. Three Of the thirteen
| companies have the requisite number
of men and officers and two the re-
quisite number of officers. All except
three are short of men or officers. The
three are the Tenth of New London,
the Ninth of Stamford and the Eighth
i of Danbury. The Eleventh has only
forty-five men; the others are in the
fifties or sixties.
There are two officers in the adj
jutant-generaPs department, one in
the Inspector generals department,
none in the judge-advocate' depart
ment, one in the ordnance department
and three officers and four men in the
quartermaster corps.
| The entire medical department, in
Guiding the Ambulance and Field Hos
pita1 companies, the dental corps and
the officers assigned to units, has four
teen officers and 143 men.
There are eighteen men in the Ma
tional Guard reserve.
The Naval militia should have 700
| officers and men for peace strength.
It has total of 345-twenty-one Of
ficers and 324 men. There are five
divisions land sixth, an aeronautic
division, is now being formed. The
total Of National Guard and Naval
militia, both officers and men, is g.
779.
! OF the five Naval militia divisions,
four are deck divisions and one an
engineers division. The aeronautic
division is a-borning. Ensign John
iB Cooper of Bridgeport, profess
sional aviator, and four men are now
at Pensacola, Fla, at the navy avia-
ton training camp. The state has
appropriated $4,000 for an aviation
camp to be used by the division, at
| Westport
The establishment of this camp was
urged by the navy department upon the
! state after the present crisis develop
ed, and a bill was rushed through the
legislature, under suspension of the
rules, appropriating the necessary
money. A hangar will be erected and
aeroplanes will be furnished by the
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