Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-04
RESERVE OFFICERS
GET ASSIGNMENTS
UNDER ARMY PLAN

or world war veterans now members
of the officers reserve corps will be
assigned for duty in the reserve army
frame work contemplated by the ma
tional defense act were made public
Saturday by the war department and
will be distributed Immediately to
The $4,000 officers who now compose
the corps. Assignment of reserve
officers 10 the twenty-seven divisions
of organized reserves throughout the
country will follow Immediately as
the first step in general staff plans,
under which an army Of more than
four million could be quickly mobi-
liked at need.
The regulations are extensive and
cover every phase OF the relation
ship between the citizen officers and
the regular srny. The same theory
of decentralization of administrative
to corps area commanders is carried
out for the officers that were en-
ployed in planning for the organized
reserve system.
There are now in the officers re-
serve two major generals, Organ,
vania, and seventeen brigadier gen.
erals, all of whom saw service in
that rank during the war. There are
322 ,colcnels, tut the great majority
of the reSerViStS, 29, 967 of them, are
second ieutenantS.
Three Groups Created
In ccl.u wartime prac-
tice, the regulations provide that only
men with actual training or expert
ence may be appointed reserve Off
GERS of the line; This includes ap-
pontnents in the infantry, cavalry,
field or coast artillery and air serv-
ice, the coDnbatant arms of the army.
Special service appointments may be
made, however, where the civil train
ing or professional training of citi-
zen fits him for wartime service with
the army, but not to lead troops in
battle. To accomplish this, two dis
tinct classes CT reserve officers are
created.
Assignment Of line officers will be
by corps area commanders and the
of officers to units of the organized
reserve in the vicinities in which
the officers live. For this purpose
more officers than required by OIL
eanization tables may be attached to
such units.
Three grol ps of officers are Gre
ated for assignment purposes. These
are the general assignment group,
to be assigned by the war depart
ment and including men regarded as
acter in connection with the general
staff: the branch assignment group,
composed of specialists in the vari-
Gus nOn-combatant branches of the
such branches, and the territorial as
signment group, including both
classes of reserve officers, to be as
signed for duty by corps area COM
manderS.
Provision for Promotion
yic,in ic, oIa
of reserve officers, even during peace
time for merit, with the restriction
that advanced rank may be grant
ed only where there is a definite
place in the higher grade for the
officer to fill. 1t also is emphasized
throughout the regulations that no
reserve officer may be called to ac-
tive service for training for more
than fifteen days in any year, ex-
cept with his consent. This regula-
funds available. to the war depart
ment will further limit the extent
to which such officers may be called
to the colors except in event of war.
A special section of the regula-
tions covers the dual national guard
-horiZed by the act. There is no con-
flict in such commissions, it is stat
ed, and national guard officers also
holding reserve commissions would
pass lnLO the reserve group GnLlrCly
in the event of liberalization of the
guard for war, retaining their assign
ment in the guard. but available
for duty with any part of the army
Where a guard officer in such dual
status is promoted, his reserve rank
will advance automatically without
additional examination.
Provisions for assignment of re-
serve officers to army schools for
training are included, but it is noted
that here also availability of funds
will limit the extent of such assign
ments.
National Guard Board
Appointment Ct board of officers
to formulate policies governing lad
ministratiVe relations" between the
guard during peace times when the
state forces are not in federal serv-
ice also was announced today by the
war department.
Colonel Frank M; Rumbold, Mis-
souri,, and Colonel Frank w. Ward,
New York, will represent the ma
tional guard on the board, both be-
ing on duty with the general staff
in connection with militia bureau
affairs. The regular officers as
signed to the board are Lieutenant
Colonies J: II. Bryson and John W.
Gulick and Majors T. w. Hammond
and l.. G. Wilson, all of the general
staff.
Announcing appointment of the
board, Acting Secretary Wainwright
said the department desired to en-
ploy every agency at it's disposal
to aid in the reoI ganization of the
guard and development of "a close
relationship and inter-dependence
between the regular army and the
national guard.
Parts Of the boards duties will be
to revise, if necessary, regulations
governing recognition by the fed
eral government of aew national