The sun., 1919-03-30
MARCH PUBLISHES
ARMY PLAN DETAILS
Famous Fighting Decisions
Not to Be Disrupted.
BY the Associated Press.

WASHINGTON, March 2s.--Orders
made public to-day by Gen. March.
Chief OF Stan. provide for the organiza-
ton of the Regular Army at peace
strength of $4,000 officers and men
under plans that are a radical departure
effect Is to carry into the peace time
establishment the ''one army organiza-
ton. which absorbed Regulars, National
Guard and National Army during the
war into the Army of the United States.
This Is accomplished by perpetuating
In the permanent establishment the nu-
merical designations names. special In
sigma, war histories and traditions and
where possible. the commissioned per-
sonnet of the divisions. regiments and
other units which have particularly bril-
liant war records. This project Is fur
thered by assigning each Of the four
teen regular divisions 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 Is an adoption of the system long
employed In Continental armies.
A feature of the plan Is the assign
ment of the Forty second Division, which
will succeed the famous Rainbow
Division OF war time. to become the
cavalry division of the new army. II
will be recruited from all parts OF the
country, as will be the seven regular
divisions retained and which are now
part of the Army of Occupation. Each Of
the seven regular divisions now in
France also Is assigned TO a home camp
as a permanent base and will be sent
Nhat wifi hFa u
Europe.
Fixing Strength of Units.
Pending further legislation the plans
being followed call for the organization
OF one field army of five corps. The
First and Second Corps are now COM
posed Of the First to Seventh Division
now overseas, and the others will be
formed at home when the new divisions
have been created. The peace strength
basis OF an infantry division to which
these units will be recruited Is 1883
officers and men. The Forty-second
Cavalry Division will have q peace
strength Of 1878.
One project still under discussion In
connection with the localization OF the
divisions is that of Offering to officers or
the war time divisions commissions in
the War Department to take into the
regular service some general officers Of
National Guard origin. It Ia understood
to command substantially the same units
they commanded in France. In the case
OF the New York Division. to be located
at Camp Upton. II Is regarded as prob
able that Major Gen. John F. Organ,
who commanded the Twenty-seventh d.
vision, will be offered command OF the
new regular division to carry that desig-
nation.
The following list shows the new desig-
nations of the army and the war time
divisions from which they were taken in
order to preserve traditions. Except In
the case Of assignment of regular reg
iments merely the number and other in
sigma OF the units is retained. tho per-
eonnel to be supplied later by recruit
ment. The recruiting area OF each divl-
sion also Is shown, the first seven to be
nation wide in composition.
First Division Camp Pike. Ark.), un-
changed an now organized,
Second Division Camp Dodge. Iowa.,
in Fourth Brigade Eighth and Forty
ninth regular regiments substituted for
the Fifth and Sixth Marine regiments
Fourth Division (Camp Kearny. Cali
formal, unchanged.
Fifth Division (Panama), unchanged.
Sixth Division (Honolulu). unchanged.
Seventh Division philippine Islands.
Alaska and Mexican border), unchanged
except for additional infantry brigade
attached. This is TO be the 1884
Brigade colored, formerly OF the Ninety
second Division. colored, and will be
composed OF -SPwentS-f9aFtAA and
Twenty-hfth Regular regiments and the
S50th Machine Gun Battalion OF the
Ninety-second.
Twenty-sixth Division (Camp Devsns,
Massachusetts,, recruitment area. New
England). Retained: Fifty-1rst In
fantry Brigade. loist and i04th Infan-
try regiments, l0lst, 1929 and l03d Ar
tillery regiments. 101st and 1924 Machine
Gun battalions, 1olst Headquarters.
Military Police, Engineer. Field signal
Battalion, Ammunition Train from Sew
enty-sixth Division, 1921 Infantry and
l5lst Artillery brigades. SO3d Machine
Gun Battalion. 3Olst Supply and Ammu-
milton Train. Seventy sixth Cavalry.
Regulars assigned: Thirteenth and
Thirty-sixth Infantry regiments.
Camp Upton's Assignments.
Twenty-seventh (Camp Upton, area
New York)-Retained Fifty-third In
fantry Brigade, l05th Infantry, lO5th
and l06th Artillery, lO4th. lO5th and
lO6th Machine Gun battalions, lO2d