Norwich bulletin., 1921-10-18
CONNECTICUT NATL GUARD
 TO BE IN 43RD DIVISION

Encouraging progress in the post war reorganiza ton of the National Guard is reported by the war depart ment at Washington, the aggregate strength of the state forces to date being, placed at 126,00O officers and men as compared, with the authorized total of 215,3 permitted under exist ing laws up to June 30 1922. The state ment said the militia bureau already had been forced to deny recognition In some cases to guard units, as avail able federal funds for the year should not permit their inclusion
 In the reorganization, it was point ed out the same lessons learned in the World war that dictated the policy as to the regular army had been applied to state forces. Definite ratios of aux Hilary arms of the service have been fixed for the guard and a conSidera ble showing made in development of these branches. The effect is to have created in fifteen months since the passage of the reorganization act, a substan- tial framework of each of the nation al guard divisions forming the first supporting force for the reuglars in the event of war.
 Under the new military policy there will be one regular divisIol, two Nat I ional Guard divisions and the officer | personnel and a 10 per cent enlisted /! nucleus for each of three organized 1 reserve divisions in each of the nine army corps areas. The nine areas. in | turn, are divided into three army areas, each containing three corps.
 | To carry out this policy it has 1 been necessary to encourage in the | National guard formation of divisional auxiliary troops and the staff organi-
 zations trains, supply units and other l similar adjunctS of a modern military l force.
 A few National Guard Cavalry units are under organization although the
 eighteen divisions mentioned are all infantry troops. With the completion l of the cavalry organizations, the de-
 partment statement said there will be 1 in the country enough mounted troops to form four cavalry divisions in ad-
 dition to regular cavalry.
 National Guard divisions have been
 allotted so far as possible the numeri- l cal designations of the war time divi- 1 sions, beginning with the Twenty sixth | in harmony with the state associations ! which marked the war time units. Six states Massachusetts, Twenty sixth division New York, Twenty seventh; Pennsylvania, Twenty eighth; Texas, l Thirty sixth and Ohio Thirty seventh, have sufficient population to justify
 assigning the complete divisions. The
 smaller states are geographically grouped in the other divisions, with
 the forty third added to the war time lists to take care of Maine. New Hamp- | shire, Vermont, Connecticut and Rhode Island the Forty-fourth to take the New York surplus New Jersey and
 Delaware and the Forty fifth for Col orado, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Ar !, izona.
 The Forty-second division designa-
 tion is omitted. This was the official
 title for the Rainbow division in the
 war composed of troops from all states. l The number and tradition of the Rain-
 bow division will be preserved by it's
 veterans unless some future emergency policy should dictate reorganizat tion
 of an all-American National Guard
 unit as it did in the world war.