Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-03-30
PEACET|ME ARMY
WILL PERPETUATE
FIGHTING UNITS
Commands With Brilliant
Records Will Have
Names Retained.
RAINBOW DIVISION TO
BECOME CAVALRY BODY
Americas New Establishment
Will Be Composed of
100000 Troops.
THIRD REGULARS AT CAMP LEE
Organization Now in Germany Will
Have It's Permanent Base at
Petersburg Camp.
THIRD REGULARS AT CAMP LEE
rBy Associated Prc-E.

/ WASHINGTON. March 2s.-orders
4 made public today by General March
1 chief of stan, provide for the organiza-
1 t'on OF tho regular army at peace
! strength Of 100000 officers and men
! under plans that arc Il radical depar-
ture from the pre-war establishment
| The effect is to carry into the peace
| Nme establishment the one army"
| organization which absorbed regulars
! National Guard and National Army
| during the war into the army of the
| United States.
! This liz accomplished By perpetual
ton in the permanent establishment
the numerical designations, names. spc-
| cial insignia, war histories and tradi-
| tons and. where possible, the com
| nissioned pcraonnei OF the divisions
regiments and other units which have
particularly brilliant war records.
This project furthercd by assigning
TO each OF the fourteen regular diyi-
sions to be organized, the number and
approximately the same home area as
one OF the war divisions
The new division. in each case, will
be recruited exclusively from that area
which Ia an adaptation of the system
long employed in continental armies
RAINBOW DIVISION WILL
BECOME CAVALRY COMMAND
ment Of 4he forty-aecond division.
which will succeed the famous Rain :
bow Division of war time. to become
the cavalry division OF the new army.
1t will DO recruited from all parts OF
Tho country as Will BIO The seven re-
Eular divisions retained, and which
are now part OF the army OF oocupa-
ton.
Each of tho seven regular divisions
now In Franco also Is assigned to a
home camp as q permanent base and
will be sent to that camp when with
Pending further legislation. the
plans being followed call for the or
ganization OF one field army OF five
now composed OF the first TO seventh
divisions. now overseas. and The otheri
will be formed at home when the new
divisions have been created.
The peace strength basis OF an In
fantry division to which these units
will be recruited is 1883 officers and
men. The forty-second. the cavalry
division, will have peace strength
OF 1878.
NAY DE oFFICERED
by wAR-TTME COMMANDER
One project still under discussion in
connection with the local orEaniza-
tion Of the divisions is that OF offering
to Offering to officers of the wartime
divisions commissions in the new re-
Eu!ar UNITS.
This would enable the War Depart
some general officers OF National Guard
origin. II is understood, to command
subs. antiany. the same units they com
"'1 The following list shows the new
taken take in order TO preserve traditions.
Except in the case OF assignment OF
regular regiments. merely the number
iatef by re recFuitment. The recrHlting
area OF each diylsiS on aisG is shown n
composition:
LOCATION AND RECRUITING
AREA IS SHOWN
First Division Camp pike. Ark3.
in s Fourah p hyssde Eghph and Forty
Fifth a mes sixth Marine Regiments. I'll"
Third Division Camp Lee. Va). un-
" Forth Division Camp Kearney.
CALI. unchanged
Sixth Division (Honolulu), un-
seyenih Division (philipplns Islands.
Alaska and Mexican lex can border 1it qn,
brigade attached. This is to be the
One Hundred and Eighty--third. Bri-
gade, colored. formerly Of the Ninety;
Of the Twenty fourth and Twenty
nth regular regiments and the Three
Hundred
TALON OF the Ninety-second.
Twenty-slxth Division tcamp Dew
ems. Mass.). recruitment area: New
twenty seventh Camp Upton. area:
Twenty-eishth Division Camp Dix.
n. j., area: Pennsylvania
VIRGINIA GUARDSMEN
REMAIN IN TNENTY-NINTH
wenty-Iints Ncam Is-I Msaqs Md =
tyIo frtn 1f TDl, q,
en- asea Rorth and sonth cafoI0a
Retained: Fifty-ninth and. sixtieth In
GHe one aed
and Thirteenth. One Hundred and Four
teenth and One Hundred and Fifteenth
tenth, one Hundred and Fourteenth
and one Hundred and Fifteenth Ma.
chine Gun Battali9nsi One Hundred
ncers,. field signal battalion and am
Division, One HUNDRED and Sixty nth
eighth Division, Three Hundred and
Thirteenth Supply and Sanitary trains
From EigthtySSeyentRh piysIon ElEhty
eighth Infantry.
ThiStyissepn sr. DivistSn Sca,mp Gus
neesssota. North and South Dakota and
A' TfhhiiFty.thira Division ecamp Grant
re a area: ArRassas soa Mlss nsap1a
Lcrisiana. Texas I nnd oklahoma.
man, Ohio. area: West Virginia and
slsnsy-seeon =. Div,s,sa 1camg Ger
Alabama: Retained: one HIndred and and
tcantinued on Second RaEo.5