Mohave County miner., 1917-12-01


 officers of the bureau of insular affairs. a military bureau, the regular army re serve, the corps of cadets at West Point, and other smaller organizations used for disciplinary grades, service schools, and record depot attachments and for some other purposes.
 How 1t Is Commanded. An army is a huge body of men gath cred together for fighting purposes in different units of organization. An army when it passes a certain strength usually is commanded by a general. Today there is no general in the Unit ed States army, but 1t is probable that within a few months congress will re- vive the rank and name some officer, who, taking the title of general, shall have supreme command of all the fight ing forces in the field.
 An army is composed of army corps. There may be two or three or more corps in an army. Sometimes when there is a huge number of troops in the field one general is put in supreme command while his forces are divided into several armies, each one in com mand of a lieutenant general. It is likely that congress soon will make Maj. Gen. John J. Pershing a lieuten- ant general and put him in command of the First corps, consisting of several divisions of troops, to see service in France.
 A division of troops is commanded by a major general. It is composed of several brigades, each one of which is commanded by a brigadier general. It is possible for a brigade to consist of a combination of cavalry, infantry and artillery, but frequently each bri- gade is composed of regiments all of the same branch of the service. The typical infantry brigade, for instance, consists of a headquarters and three regiments of infantry, while a typical cavalry brigade consists of a head quarters and three regiments of cav airy.
 Composition of the Regiment.
 Each regiment is commanded by a colonel, who has under him a neuten- ant colonel, whose duties are rather nondescript, although his chief duty is to take the place of the colonel in his absence or in case he is wounded or killed in battle.
 Each regiment is divided into bat talions, and each battalion is com handed by a major. A battalion con sists of two or more companies, troops or batteries, and each company is com handed by a captain. In each com pany there is a first lieutenant and a second lieutenant, and complete con- plement of nOncommissioned officers, first sergeants, duty sergeants, and corporals.
 The company is divided into squads for purposes of instruction, discipline, control and order, each squad consist ing of a corporal and seven privates. The corporal is the squad leader, and when absent is replaced by a desig- mated private. It might be said that from the squad, consisting as 1t does only of a corporal and seven privates, the whole formation of an army is de- veloped and in a sense regulated. The squad is a small base unit from which armies take their growth by a series of developing steps.
 Men who enter the United States urmy as recruits have the same chance that men had years ago not only to be come commissioned officers, but to reach the high place of command of all the armies of their country.
 Does this seem to be an exagger- ated statement? Only recently there died a lieutenant general of the United States army who commanded all the forces of Uncle Sam. He entered the service as an enlisted man of regulars, going to a recruiting office just as any boy of today can go to a recruiting office there to don the uniform of a private, later to enter the ranks, and if 1t Is in him to work his way up to the top.
 Private Goes to Top.
 On July 9, 1861, Lieut.. Gen. Adna R. Chaffee applied for enlistment as a regular in the army of the United States. There was nothing to differ entiate him from other young men who applied daily at the recruiting office. He was assigned as a private to Troop K of the Sixth cavalry, an organization which exists today and in which John J. Pershing, now commanding our forces in France, saw his first hard fighting duty. General Chaffee rose from private to sergeant, to first ser geant, to second lieutenant and through the rest of the ranks until he was made lieutenant general of the | United States army, the ranking officer of Uncle Sam's forces. Chaffee was a soldier of the highest | order. His career in the Spanish American war was markedly efficient. | He fought at San Juan and later went |