The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-05-23
MANY new REGIMENTS
TO BE ORGANIZED
10 Supply Tactical Formation Ncces-
sary for Establishment of Six
teen Divisions of National
Guard.
SIXTEEN AERO SQUADRONS
Cardinals Quota: Regt. Infantry,
Three Troops Cavalry, Regt.
Field Artillery, Two Com
panics Engineers.

Washington, May REORGANIZATION
OF scores of new regiments of Nation
al Guard artillery, engineers, signal
troops and cavalry will be undertaken
soon to supply the tactical formation
necessary for the establishment of the
sixteen divisions Of the guard provid-
ed for in the War Departments plans.
In addition, Immediately after the
existing State soldiers have been
drafted into the federal service, there
must be organized divisional head
quarters dctachments, supply, ammu-
milton and medical trains, heavy field
artillery and signal battalions and
aero service, two cavalry divisions and
many new coast artillery units and
reserves.
Infantry Arm.
In the infantry, the arms of the ser
vice in which the guard is strongest,
thirty regiments and six companies
must be created to provide the IA
regiments of the divisional structure.
The principal shortage is in field
artillery. Each Of the sixteen divi-
sions requires three full regiments of
six batteries each, or total of 2SS
batteries. There now exists in the
guard 108 batteries.
The shortage in engineers is al
most as great. There will be needed
ety-siX companies, whereas there now
are only thirty companies.
Aero Squadrons.
Each division also will have an
aero squadron or balloon company,
making sixteen air service units.
The first effort of the department
is to bring up to full war strength
all existing units of the guard. The
next step will be to create the new
units necessary to complete the six x.
teen infantry divisions, and the adiu-
tant generals of the States have been
instructed that they should prepare
Tor these new organizations without
delay. Southern States will be called
upon to furnish in addition the fol-
lowing:
Ninth Division-North Carolina,
one cavalry machine gun troop, one
regiment field artillery, one radio
company, signal corps; South Caro-
lima, one regiment infantry, three
troops cavalry, one regiment field
artillery, two companies engineers,
one outpost company, signal corps :;
tennessee, one regiment infantry.
ont eroop cavalry, one regiment field
artillery, one wire company, signal
corps.
Tenth Observation-Disclosures, one rcgi-
ment field artillery, one battalion en-
gineers; Georgia, two battalions in
fantry, one regiment field artillery,
one battalion engineers, one wire COM
pany and outpost company, signal
corps; Florida, two battalions infan-
try, one battalion field artillery.
Fifteenth Division-Tcxas, four
regiments infantry, one regiment
Qess one squadron) cavalry, two rcgi-
mcnts Ccss two battcrics) field artil-
lcry, one battalion Oess two compa-
nies) engineers, one field battalion,
signal corps; Oklahoma, two rcgi-
ments infantry, one regiment field
artillery, one battalion Qcss one com
pany) engineers.
Eighteenth Division.
Eighteenth Observation-Disclosures one
regiment infantry, one regiment field
artillery, one outpost company, sig
nal corps; Mississippi, two regiments
infantry, two squadrons cavalry, one
machine gun troop cavalry, one regi-
ment field artillery, one battalion en-
ginecrs, one radio company signal
corps; Louisiana, two regiments in
fantry, one squadron Oess two troops)
cavalry, one regiment Qess one bat
talion) field artillery, one battalion
engineers, one wire company, signal
corps.