Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-06
EloHrx.EiohrH DIVISION BEING
PREPARED ron SERVICE
ovERsEAs.
OFFICERS AND MEN
UNDERGO PHYSICAL TESTS
Physically Unfit Being Wsedsd Out
and Will Be Left eehind-0rsani.
xatIan Commanders instructed TO
sit Every Unit - Number Of Men
Disqualified Expected 70 Be Small. 4

to determine tile physical fitness OF OF
ncers and men in the Eighty eighth
national army division for overseas
service at Camp Dodge have been Is
sued from headquarters.
All officers in camp except those
who have bean examined since Nov.
< H. last, and now have passed suc-
cessful examination for. overseas SER
vice. are to be examined byNmedical
officers as soon as possible, according
10 an order lust issued at division
headquarters.
General Beach and Foote Pass.
Several weeks ago war depart
ment order directed the examination
( OF all general officers here. Brigadier
General Beach. acting division COM
rnander and Brig. Gen. S. NJ. Foote,
commanding the One Hundred Sixty
third artillery brigade passed success
fully. Col. r.. y. Getty, at ne time d
brigadier general and acting division
commander, it is said failed to pass.
He has been transferred to Camp Cor
don. Ga
Another order issued shortly after
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of some OF the field officers.
Affects Division Staff.
The present order will affect field
and line officers both it is said and
those on the division staff. Also those
OF the medical corps and the head
quartermasters corps as well as those
in the infantry and artillery regiments.
trains, signal organizations, engineers
and other division organizations:
When reports have been made by
examining physicians. it will place in
the nan6s vi III tic stat e ard the depart
ments specific information as to the
number Of officers now on duty in
camp who are physically qualified for
overseas service.
Medical oAficers are of the opin-
ion that the number disqualified
will be small.
It will be the policy Of the depart
ment, it is said. to take no chances
with officers or men found physically
unfit for service in France. The result
will be that those who are found
wanting viii be retained for domestic
service in the United States.
Organization commanders are
charged with the execution OF this
order and are directed to furnish the
division head quarters with statement
that all officers Of their respective or
ganizations have been examined and
submit list of those found not quail
flied for overseas service.
Another order from headquarters
directs that physical examinations be
made OF the men recently transferred
to the division from Samp Funston.
Fort Riley, Kan. This order was made
with the aim OF determining the physi-
cal fitness Of these men for operseas
service. Those who are found unfit
will be transferred from the organiza-
lions to which they are assigned and
probably will be placed in the depot
brigade.
Wide Latitude in Order.
This same order also directs the
examination OF "all orders who are
believed to be unfit for overseas
duty" This part Of the order will al
low organization commanders to
have examined all men whom they
feel may not be in the best physical
trim to Withstand the riEors Of war
fare on the western front
Soldiers sick In the. hospital will be
sadly "out Of luck" The order re-
garding men in the hospital says that
their physical fitness for overseas duty
is to be determined by the officer in
command of the hospital. But men
who are to be confined there as re-
suit Of sickness after q certain date or
at the time the division is prepared to
move will not be considered at that
time as Mt for duty in e TaIioe and Nj
be left behind.