Annual Reports of the War Department, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1914 |
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addition Adjutant admission rate ammunition amount appropriation Arsenal authorized aviation Barracks battalion building cadets camp Capt Cavalry cent Chief civilian Coast Artillery Corps coast defenses command commission Congress cost Department depot desertions detached service discharge duty ending June 30 Engineer enlisted equipment examination expenditures Field Artillery fire-control system fiscal year 1914 fiscal year ending Fort Leavenworth fortifications funds Galveston grade guns harbor Hospital Corps improvement increase Infantry installation instruction instructors issued July June 30 Leavenworth Lieut manufacture Medical Corps ment Military Academy military prison noneffective rate officers operation Ordnance Organized Militia Philippine Scouts practice prescribed Quartermaster Corps received recommended recruits reenlistments regiment repairs reserve result River Secretary Secretary of War sergeants Signal Corps soldiers strength supplies surgeon tion total number transportation troops United States Army United States Military venereal diseases Vera Cruz War Department
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Page 96 - Corps; the Adjutant General's Department; the Inspector General's Department; the Judge Advocate General's Department; the Quartermaster Corps; the...
Page 203 - Hereafter no officer or enlisted man in active service who shall be absent from duty on account of disease resulting from his own intemperate use of drugs or alcoholic liquors or other misconduct shall receive pay for the period of such absence, the time so absent and the cause thereof to be ascertained under such procedure and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War...
Page 88 - ... by any officer who, before assignment to such duty, shall have been regularly assigned to, and shall have entered upon duty with, an organization or a command the detachment of certain officers from which is prohibited by the Act of Congress approved August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, or by this Act, shall, for the purpose of said Acts, hereafter be counted as actual presence for duty with such organization or command.
Page 505 - ... shall have examined him, under general regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of War and published to the Army by the War Department, and shall have reported him to be qualified for the rating.
Page 93 - ... when any vacancy, except that of the chief of the department or \ corps, shall occur, which can not be filled by promotion as provided in this section, it shall be filled by detail from the line of the Army...
Page 504 - That hereafter in time of peace whenever any officer holding a permanent commission in the line of the Army with rank below that of major shall not have been actually present for duty for at least two of the last preceding six years with a troop, battery, or company, of that branch of the Army in which he shall hold said commission, such officer shall not be detached nor permitted to remain detached from such troop, battery, or...
Page 505 - Increase of 25 per centum in the pay of his grade and length of service under his line commission. Each duly qualified junior 'military aviator shall, while so serving, have the rank, pay, and allowances of one grade higher than that held by him under his...
Page 102 - That all laws or parts of laws conflicting with the provisions of this act are to the extent of such conflict suspended while this act is in force.
Page 98 - That the President is authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, three persons, not more than two of whom shall be adherents of the same party, as Civil Service Commissioners, and said three commissioners shall constitute the United States Civil Service Commission.
Page 276 - ... sergeants to be selected by examination from the most competent enlisted men of the Army who have served at least four years, and whose character and education shall fit them to take charge of public property and to act as clerks and assistants to post and other quartermasters.