Evening star., 1922-08-28
Only 81 Infantry Regiments
Will Remain in U. S.
Combat Service.
WILL REDUCE PERSONNEL
One Out of Every Seven Officers
to Go on Inactive
Duty.
Rv tbe Associ,ted press

By the Associated Press.
The new reorganization plan for
the Army. drafted ~by the general
staff in order to meet reductions in
personnel in accordance with con-
gressional acts fixing the enlisted
strength at 125,O00 men, calls for
sweeping changes in the number and
size of tactical units. An explanatory
statement issued today by the War
Department shows "a large number of
such units which will be either
further reduced in strength, made in
active or demobiliZed.
Only thirty-seven regiments of in
fantry will remain in the combat
service as a result of the reduction,
as compared to sixty-four regiments
called for under the national defense
act of 1920. The cavalry regiments
are reduced from sixteen in 1920 to
fourteen; the field artillery regiments
from thirty three in 1920 to thirteen,
plus eight separate battalions; coast
artillery regiments from nine to four,
plus those at fixed defenSeS, and the
engineer regiments from thirteen in
1920 to seven.
Infantry Reduced.
number, the infantry regiments, the
statement said. have been reduced in
strength from ,490 men to 1.150, and
the cavalry regiments from SIS to
GAL.
The 18th and saith Infantry regi-
ments were reduced to S12 enlisted
men, respectively, while those made
inactive. with records assigned to ac-
tive associates and provision made
for rehabilitation. included the 36th,
37th, 39th, 40th, 41st. 47th. 51st. SD,
SD, 54th. 60th and 61st regiments,
as well as the 18th Light Tank Bat
talon, the 2eth Infantry Brigade
Headquarters and Headquarters Com
pany and the 10th Tank Company.
Those demobilized with records turn
ed in to the adjutant general and no
provision made for rehabilitation In
cluded the 44th. 46th, 4Sth, 49th. 5Oth,
55th, 56th, 5sth. 59th. ed, 63d and
64th regiments.
Nine training center troops of cav
airy were demobilized and the 9th
Cavalry Regiment was ordered to re-
turn to the United States for station
at Fort Riley, Kan.
Other organizations made inactive,
demobiliZed or converted into smaller
units included several in the field
artillery service, the coast artillery,
air service. engineers, Signal Corps.
Quartermaster Corps. ordnance de-
partment and chemical warfare ser
vice.
I'm the redistribution of the Army
within the United States the state
ment said. ''use is being made of per-
manent posts as far as possible. and
the policy of withdrawing from can
tonments is being continued,
OF the camps, distinguished from
cantonments. used for mobilization
during the war, the statement point
ed out, all have been disposed of
Tn(I Iall
was retained for training purposes
in the 4th Corps Area.
OF the sixteen National Army can
tonments Camp Devens, Mass. Dix,
" j., Custer. Mich, and Funston,
Kan, are retained for training pur-
poses in their respective corps areas.
Camp Travis. Tex, was retained
as the I'd Division station and the
principal training area for the sth
Corps.
Camp Lewis, Wash. was retained
as the principal area for the 9Th
Corps and permanent station for the
I'd Division, while Camp Mead, Nd.
was kept for training purposes OF the
Sd Corps Area.
Officers to Go.
"The reduction of officers" the
statement added, "as provided in the
last appropriation act, has begun, but
will not be completed until December
10. A DOarO OF general OIHcerS Is
now meeting daily at the War De-
partment."
A tabulation of commissioned. per-
sonnel to be reduced by grades, show
ed $50 colonels to be reduced to 420;
667 observation-disclosures, to SIT; 2,191
majors, to 1,575: 4,3S5 captains, to
i3.150; 3,026 first lieutenants, to 2,967,
and second lieutenants to be increas-
ed from 13O to LIN. These reduc-
tions will be made from officers on
the promotion list, while others on
the nom promotion list will be reduced
from 1925 to 9S3 in the Medical De-
partment; from 234 to 15S in the
Dental Corps; from 15S to 126 in the
Veterinary Corps. and 13S to " in
the Motor Ambulance Corps.
Eight hundred officers on the pro-
motion list, graded from colonel to
first lieutenant, will be retained until
they are absorbed or recommissioned
in their next lower grade. When this
is accomplished, the statement conclud-
ed. a minimum of LIS reductions
will be necessary this year by retire.
ment. resignation or discharge.
This is a minimum reduction of
.13.5 per cent, or approximately of
one officer out of every seven." the
statement said, adding that when the
final reduction in commissioned per-