The Sentinel=record., 1917-05-05
IS WAR STRENGTH DIFSIOhS|
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l 'N4"-'AAN IHHuldI SldDIlSnueDt ant the national guard is being brouaht to tul. war strength. The regulars. when all five additional increments pro. vided for in he national defense act have been added, Will total H.2G3 off. cers and 993,000 men cf all arm. Since April nearly jO,000 recruits have been obtained, bringing the army up 10 nearly lS0,00O.
 Upon the presidents approya. oi the army bill the first increment will 1 be added to the regulars Details of ohicers and designatilns of new units 1 already have been arranged. As soon as pos. .ble thereafter the remaining 1 increments will be created. existing regiments being divided and expanded lt) form the new units.
 Already orders summoning officers of the regular service for examination 1 for advance in grade have been pre-. pared. Fifteen lieutenant coonels ot cavalry vii be colonels. 27 cavalry majrs will become lieutenant col onels; G3 captans will become maio- and all lieutenants will become cap ] tains
 All field aIti lery lieutenant colonels and the first five majors will be amined tO become colonels. The re. naming majors and one captain will 70 up to lieutenant colonels, 70 cap. tains win be examined for majcrs and all lieutenants vii become captains.
 The coast artillery 13 lieutenant col9nels must be promoted to col l onels; 22 majors become lieutenant colonels: all captains will become majors and the first 230 ieutenants will Ge examined for captains. All second lieutenants bee me first lieu. tenants.
 In the infantry the first 50 lieutpn. ant colonels win be examined to be ! come colonels. Majors down to mum Der S9 go up for lieutenant cclonels the first 200 captains are slated tor majors and a present first lieuten ants and second lieutenants, including the first l53, will become captains.
 The result If this expansion will to create 5.46l vacancies in the grade. of first and second lieutenants ( ] army. More than a th5usand youth in civil life already have applied foi examination for second lieutenant anC 4.cG0 will be selected from the officers training camps.
 To pr-vide genera officers to com mand the IS divisional training camp. that number army colonels may b, 1 examined As there exists alread, one vacancy in the grade of brigadiel general, i9 new general officers mus be appointed in the near future. anC the army bill provides that the presi dent may select these men from an, source. A uniform grade of majo, generals. senior and junior rank. alst has been prc DO ed. doing away witl the grade of brigadier general. IT any event the present general officers of wide experience probably will be selected so far as possib to ccm 1 mand the divisional camps.
 The full strength of the national guard units now existing will be g. l S47 officers and S29i954 men giving total regular and national guard force 10 he whipped into shape befSre the new army l. called of 2l,0S0 off, cers and 622,95l men New units must be created, however, to fill ut tactical organizations and probably the total of this first force wi exceed 100000 active troops, backed by about 250,000 more in the regimental recruit battali ns.
 From this force will be formed 1N divisions corresp; nding to the organi. zation Of the first new army. From 1 also early in September will be drawn some 100000 officers and noncommis- stoned officers, who will constitute the framework on which the new army will be shaped, They will be with he | 10000 officers tQ be selected from the 1 training camps, the Instructors of he l rests the whole mi itary fabric that is to be built up.
 In general, the plan will be to pro vide regular army officer to com mand each new regiment, with an adequate number Of regular 1T nation al guard officers of experience 10 carry cn efficiently the administrative duties and t) supervise instruction During the interval between the registration and the calling out of the new army the regular and national guard divisions will be at work pre- pairing the mobi ization camps and with their own training To them also will continue to fall the duty of protecting public and private prop erty. The e mmander of each train. ing district probably will direct this work under the orders of the com mander of the military department in which his camp is situated.
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