Mohave County miner., 1917-12-01
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 On the first re-enlistment each priv ate in the United States army gets S3 additional pay each month, and this is increased for each succeeding enlist ment. It will be seen from the table that men who qualify as good shots, or who, because of their capabilities, are given certain positions, receive an increase of monthly pay. It may also be said that each enlisted man who serves in the aviation corps receives an addition of 50 per cent in his pay while he is on duty that requires him to participate regularly and frequently in aerial flights, or while holding the rating of aviation mechanician.
 The regular army of the United States dates back for its organization to the year 17S9, when it was a body of men barely 500 in number. Prior to this time there was a force, the units of which were paid by the diff ferent states, or it might almost be said colonies, for it was not until l7S9 that the United States as the United CkoFas oop,a fpFn ovicfanao The fpd- eral government took over part of these state forces and formed the orig lnal regular army.
 The regulars fought Indians from the very start of their existence as an organized body. They made a fine record for themselves small as were their numbers in the war of 1872. Later they took up the work of guarding the frontier, and the history of the army for years and years was one of self sacrifice, of devotion to duty, and of achievement in the fields so far res moved from civilization that the people never realized what their little force was doing for them. To the fact that the high work of the regulars was done for so many years in remote fields was due the lack of the peoples apprecia- tion of the heroism of their standing army.
 Long List of Achievements.
 It was the regulars who suffered in the Fort Dearborn massacre on the site of Chicago over a hundred years ago; 1t was the regulars under Major Dade who in Florida, hopelessly out numbered and ambushed, fought until almost the last man was killed, the Seminole Indians under the fine leader ship of one of Osceola's chieftains. It was the regulars who went to death in the country of the Rosebud under the white chief, Custer; it was a little band of regulars who met Big Foot and his warriors on Wounded Knee creek in 1890 and won the fight after appall- ing losses. It was the regulars who, fought Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, Chief Joseph, and who followed Geronimo, The Kid, and other savage Apaehes, into the mountain fastnesses of Mexi- co. It was the regulars who from the beginning until the present day have dared everything for their country. Their record is a magnificent one.
 The regular army is now being brought up to a war standard of strength. When the ranks are full there will be following the colors as a part of the regular establishment some 2S5,0O0 Americans. Any young Ameri- can today has an opportunity to be- come by volunteering a member of this devoted band. It means service, and hard service, but it also means high l service, and in all human probability | glorious service. Hardships there will be in plenty; dangers, a multitude, but | there are the compensations of service | that is service, and of a sense of patriotic duty done in a field of life | into which devotion to country calls the young American.
 Organization of the Army.
 The organization of the army today | is different from the organization of . other days. In the old days there was no aviation service and little or no signal service of any kind. The med ical service was crude; the artillery had not become the great factor in warfare that it is today, and there was less specialization along all lines of military endeavor.
 Let us take the American army as 1t is provided for under the law of today, a time when we are in war with a great military power. Of course it must be remembered that in addition to the regular army we shall have the great new national army, the National Guardsmen, the navy and the Marine corps to help us win in the fight for the liberty of the world.
 The regular army of the United States upon the present war footing consists of 64 regiments of infantry, 25 regiments of cavalry; 28 regiments of AaId arffIIarv Q ooasf orffIIay-v oor-nc |