Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-14

NONCOM RANK in LIEU
OF SHOULDER STRAPS
Men Who Missed at Training
Camps Eligible to APP
pointment

| NOncOmmission ratings in the natiOna
army are awaiting all those who failed Ia
win their shoulder straps at the first Of.
ncers' training camps Colonel e. 4. T.
Hatfield In charge of the local recruit
ing station, 1929 Arch street. has received
orders from Washington 10 enlist men who
failed to receive commissions at the ira aininx
camps In the national army. They will be
enlisted as privatcs. but when the div-
| sions OF the national army are ordered to
the cantonments in September the men will
he graded corporals and sergeants.
/ Major General j. Franklin Bell COM
! mander Of the Department Of the East
| urges all candidates who failed to procure
; commissions at the officers training camps
! TO apply for noncommissions in the national
army.
II was pointed out by General Bell that
! inlthe sixteen divisions of the national army
total Of 1912 noncomni issloned officers
! would be needed IN every division there
WIZ be twenty-three regimental sergeant
majors. forty battalion sergeant ma jors
1874 first sergeants. 81 mess sergeants. 1853
sergeants and 2626 corporals
TheSe hgures apply tU the present or.
SANITATION OF infantry. II is generally un.
derstood that this organization will he
changed, but General BELL was unable 10
hgure Just what the number will be under
the new organization. He feels confident.
however, that no less number of noncom.
missi0ned officers positions will be opeu
These figures Of course relate to in
fantry only" said General Bell but there
VIII be stlll larger number Of n0ncom-
miSsiOnod officers when the number of repi
mentS OF other branches Of service are also
counted "
In the army. promotion 10 nOncomnis-
stoned officers IS made exclusively on merit
and the war Department has already am.
nouncrd That there will be no more training
camps for officers. and that hereafter officer,
lp tpI
the ranks. Dnc needs only to know the
great number of promotions which have
been made to FIJI vacancies ocCasioned bv
the casualties in European wars to realize
how rapid promotion is liable to be in the
American service once it becomes fully in
volved IN operations in the trenches in
Europe
ANY candidate who has failed to win u
commission and who can show genuine
merit need not have tho slightest doubt of
being able TO earn commission before
the war closes, unless it closes very soon
and before the American army becomes
really seriously involved in the struggle"
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